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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129
Title:: Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This is the only surviving copy of the Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, with alternating sections in prose and verse. Parts of the text that are now damaged were recorded in Junius's notebook (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 12). Both this manuscr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 130–168
Title:: Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the Life of St Edward the Confessor by Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). This manuscript includes a table of chapters and prefatory letters addressed to King Henry II of England (r. 1154-1189) and Laurence, abbot of Westminster (d. 1173). All these text are listed in Bi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VII
Title:: Andreas Dominicus Floccus, De magistratibus sacerdotisque Romanorum libellus
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item