Miscellaneous theological texts (2r–13r); Nicholas of Gloucester, Chronicle, Noah–AD 838 (13r–146v); Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie (147r–148v: Dean 13, imperfect)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (147r–148v)
Codex bombycinus, in 4to. constans fol. 220. quorum plurima lacerantur. Annales Eutychii, patriarchae Alexandrini, ab orbe condito, ad annum Christi 900. (Arabice.) [Edited by Pocock]
Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
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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...
Historical texts transcribed by John Joscelyn (d. 1603), comprising excerpts from a chronicle of Abingdon Abbey (229v); John of Worcester, Chronicle, AD 1131–1141 (230r–235r: imperfect)
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
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...