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91. Cotton MS Augustus II 99

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 99
Title:
Grant of King Offa of the English (d. 796) to Archbishop Jænberht of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
King Offa of the English grants five sulungs (aratra) at Hehham (Higham Upshire), Kent, to Archbishop Jænberht of Canterbury; dated 774 (Sawyer, no. 110). Endorsed in a 11th-century hand, ‘boc to heh ham: –’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Offa Rex dedit heah ham Ianberto archiepiscopo.’ and ‘.latine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

92. Cotton MS Augustus II 100

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 100
Title:
Grant of King Cuthred of Kent (d. 756) to Æthelnoth, prefectus
Scope & Content:
King Cuthred of Kent grants three sulungs (aratra) at Eythorne, Kent, to Æthelnoth, prefectus, in return for 3000 pence; dated 805 × 807 (Sawyer, no. 41). Endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘Hegyðe ðorn. ðreo sulunga’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Cudred rex cantiae. Edelnoðo. prefecto’; in another 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

93. Cotton MS Augustus II 101

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 101
Title:
Grant of King Æthelberht II of Kent (d. 762) to the church of St Mary, Lyminge
Scope & Content:
King Æthelberht II of Kent grants a fishery on the river Limen, the oratorium of St Martin’s (? at New Romney, Kent) with the fishermen’s dwellings and a quarter-sulung (aratrum) in the same place, and pasture-land in the marsh called Biscopeswic to the church of St Mary, Lyminge (Sawyer, no. 24...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 8th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

94. Cotton MS Augustus II 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 102
Title:
Grant of King Ecgberht II of Kent (fl. 765–779) to the church of St Mary (Lyminge)
Scope & Content:
King Ecgberht II of Kent grants 150 acres (iugera) at Sampton (in West Hythe), Kent, to Abbot (or Abbess) Dunna (or Dunne) and the church of St Mary (Lyminge); dated 773, but the witness-list belongs to the reign of Ecgberht of the West Saxons, no earlier than 833 (Sawyer, no. 270). Endorsed by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

95. Cotton MS Augustus II 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 110
Title:
Bull of Pope Clement V, naming Robert of Stamford prior of Huntingdon
Scope & Content:
Notification of Pope Clement V (b. c. 1264, d. 1314; reg. 1305–1314) to the Priory of St Mary, Huntingdon, of provision of Robert of Stamford (d. 1322), prior of Newstead, to be prior in place of Walter de Evenley (d. 1308). At Poitiers, 4th Kalends of February (29 January 1308).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1308
Extent:
1 leaf

96. Cotton MS Caligula A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A IX
Title:
Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

97. Cotton MS Caligula A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII
Title:
Heliand and a charm
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand, an account of the life of Jesus in Old Saxon epic verse. It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus. The volume includes: f. 1: part of a memorandum dated 1371-72 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, Latin, and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

98. Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1
Title:
Painted miniatures probably from a Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: These leaves were formerly part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII, foliated: ff. 3r-10v.; they were removed in 1931 and are now stored separately as Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1. The eight leaves originally probably formed part of a prefatory cycle in a Psalter were originally bound as a pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Parchment leaves

99. Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
Title:
Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum; De VII Mirabilibus Mundi; Historia Brittonum; hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, and others; imperfect copies of Vita Beati Birini Episcopi and Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi; hagiography relating to Benedict of Nursia, Mary Magdalene and the account of the vision of the monk of Eynsham
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 3r: a medieval leaf with an early modern table of contents. ff. 4r-27v: an obituary calendar from the Premonstratensian abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th century and the 1st half of the 16th century. ff. 28r-58v: historical texts copied in the 3rd quarter of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century - 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

100. Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
Title:
Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of St Mildred
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains: ff. 1r-36v: An illustrated, imperfect troper (a musical collection known as the Cotton Troper or the Caligula Troper) made in the mid-11th century. ff. 37r-92v: A Troper and a Proser, possibly made at Worcester in the late 12th century. ff. 93r-130r: Ælfr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century - 4th quarter of 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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