Compilation of verse; extracts from Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; De Romanis imperatoribus; a series of epitaphs; De coloribus et mixtionibus; computistical texts; formulas for the visitation of the sick; Gloria in excelsis; commentary on Juvenal, Satires.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript consists of a main part, and two fragmentary sections (one at the beginning and one at end) that were probably added as flyleaves at some point after the second half of the 14th century. The main part (ff. 5-156) is a diverse compilation written roughly in the last quarter of the ...
ff. 1r-4v: A fragment of two three-part settings of Gloria in excelsis, with notes on a 5-line stave, written in the second half of the 14th century. Now disordered, the correct order is: ff. 2v, 3v, 2r, 3r, and ff. 4r, 1v, 4v, 1r. Decoration: Capital letters at the start of a sentence highlig...
Poetic compilation and miscellany: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia ecclesiastica; De Romanis imperatoribus; Sortes duodecim Patriarcharum; Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum, Vita Sancti Laurentii; Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; Versus Damasi ad amicum suum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de mysterio missae, Vita beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae, and De excidio Troiae; epitaphs for Augustine of Hippo (d. 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), and others; hymns; computistical texts; De coloribus et mixt...
Scope & Content:
ff. 6r-13r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, excerpt from the year 1066 (Bk VI, chapter 30), beginning: ‘Anno millesimo sexageno quoque seno’. ff. 13r-15v: De Romanis imperatoribus (About the Roman Emperors), beginning: ‘Augustus Iulio Cesari succedens’. ff. 16r-19v: The anonymous Sor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...