151. Cotton MS Nero D IV
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152. Cotton MS Nero D VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D VII
- Title:
- The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the names and portraits of benefactors to the Abbey of St Albans with details of their gifts. The preface states that the register was established as part of the grant of confraternity set up by Abbot Thomas and was to be kept on the Abbey's high altar (f. 2r-v). The m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1380-c 1540
- Extent:
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1 volume
153. Cotton MS Nero E I/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I/1
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
154. Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains: ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
155. Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Title:
- Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
156. Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Title:
- Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
157. Cotton MS Otho B II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho B II
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most likely by six scribes that were working in South-East England, perhaps London. The manuscript contains the Regula Pastoralis (Rule of Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604),...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
158. Cotton MS Otho C I/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho C I/1
- Title:
- Gospel-book; bull of Pope Sergius
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
159. Cotton MS Otho C I/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho C I/2
- Title:
- Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
160. Cotton MS Otho C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho C V
- Title:
- Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (part of the 'The Otho-Corpus Gospels') (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect). The Gospels of St Luke and St John are contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B and possibly ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 8th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
