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841. Cotton MS Vespasian D XI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
Title:
Lawrence of Durham, Consolatio de Morte Amici; Hypognosticon; Oratio pro Laurentio; Oratio pro Naufragis; Oratio pro Iuvenibus Compeditis (imperfect); Oratio pro Milone (imperfect); Maledictio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains works by Lawrence of Durham (b. c. 1110, d. 1154), poet, hagiographer, and prior of Durham Cathedral Priory. The manuscript primarily contains the Hypognosticon (‘Abbreviation’), a poem that recounts the biblical history of mankind from its creation until pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

842. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XII
Title:
Glossed Hymnal
Scope & Content:
Contents: [f. 1r: Removed 16 December 1912 and bound with other leaves as Royal MS 13 D. i*. Table of contents by William Dugdale on 1v.] f. 2r: Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?) f. 3r: Table of contents by Richard James. f. 4r: Introductory note, from Isidore, De ecclesiasticis offici...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

843. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
Title:
A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes a collection of homilies in Old English; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 9th century-12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 224 folios.

844. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX
Title:
Nigel Witeker, Versus; An anonymous poem; Ely Chronicle; An Easter-table chronicle; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae, Sermones; A theological note
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-51r: Nigel Witeker (d. after 1206), Versus (Poems). ff. 52r: An anonymous poem, beginning: 'Vitam claudit hominum paucitas dierum, nec est inter’. ff. 53r-70v: Ely Chronicle. ff. 71r-82r: An Easter-table chronicle. ff. 83r-112v: Hildebert of Lavardin (b. c. 1055, d. 1133),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

845. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XV
Title:
Pontifical, with medieval endleaves; a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, Sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, Homilia xx); Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

846. Cotton MS Vespasian D XX

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XX
Title:
Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-late 12th century
Extent:

A Parchment codex, 95 folios.

847. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI
Title:
Historia Brittonum; Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This is composite manuscript including three distinct parts, plus an early modern table of contents (f. 1*): ff. 1r-17v: Historia Brittonum; ff. 18r-40v: Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; ff. 41r-71v: Sedulius' Paschale carmen, Hymnus i, and Hymnus ii and an excerpt from Pru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 9th century-1st half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

848. Cotton MS Vespasian E III

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Cotton MS Vespasian E III
Title:
Annals of Burton Abbey; an account of the Council of Oxford of 1222; St Cyprian, Confessio; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Saeculi; Alexander of Stainsby, Constitutiones; Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago Mundi; Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem; Reginald of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Malchi
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made out of six parts that were produced separately in England. The first part (ff. 4-102) was produced at Burton Abbey in the early 13th century and contains the Annals of Burton Abbey. The second part (ff. 103-108) is an account of the Council of Oxford of 1222. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

849. Cotton MS Vespasian F III

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Cotton MS Vespasian F III
Title:
Correspondence and other documents written or attested by various monarchs
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other documents written or attested by the kings, queens and rulers of England, France, Scotland, Castile, Aragon, Spain, Portugal, Florence, Tuscany, the Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Russia, including William I of England (1066–1087) and his succes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

850. Cotton MS Vitellius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A VI
Title:
Gildas, De excidio Britanniae (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex contains one of the earliest surviving copies of the fifth or sixth century churchman Gildas's account of De excidio Britanniae, copied in the mid-10th century. (A fragment, possibly copied in the late 9th or early 10th century, survives in Bibliothèque Carnegie de Reims, MS 414.) This...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

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