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141. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
Title:
Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et Arabici; Herman of Reichenau, Computus Abbreviates; computistical argumenta
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and 2nd half of the 13th centuries. Two parts were certainly written at and for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury, as these contain the annals a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

142. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
Title:
A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim, Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem, Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together. Contents: ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

143. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1
Title:
‘Metrical calendar of York’ (imperfect); Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; lists of Popes and apostles; Anglo-Saxon episcopal lists; Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Scope & Content:
These three bifolia were copied in the 9th century in Southern England, possibly in the kingdoms of Mercia or Kent. Their script shares similarities to the Book of Cerne (see Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), pp. 170-2). These bifolia were originally part of the volume Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, but t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century -16th century
Extent:

Single parchment folios mounted separately in frames.

144. Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
Title:
(1) Old English adaptations of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia and other texts (known as the 'Southwick Codex'); (2) Beowulf, The Marvels of the East, Judith, and other texts in Old English (known as the 'Nowell Codex')
Scope & Content:
This volume, containing the unique medieval copy of Beowulf and other important texts in Old English, comprises two manuscripts of different origin and date, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The so-called 'Southwick Codex' (ff. 4–93), named after its medieval home, was ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
990s-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

145. Cotton MS Augustus II 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 82
Title:
Grant of King Swæfred of Essex (fl. 693/4) and Pæogthath, comes, to Bishop Waldhere of London (fl. 694–704/5)
Scope & Content:
King Swæfred of Essex and Pæogthath, comes, with the consent of Æthelred, king of Mercia, grant land at Twickenham, Middlesex, to Bishop Waldhere of London; dated 13 June 704. Confirmation by Kings Coenred and Ceolred of the Mercians; dated 709 × 716, Arcencale (Sawyer, no. 65). Endoresed in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 8th century-1st half 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

146. Cotton MS Caligula A XV

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Cotton MS Caligula A XV
Title:
Jerome, De viri illustribus, Jerome, Vita S Pauli, extracts from Isidore's Eymologiae, book III of Cyprian's Ad Quirinum Testimonia, De computo paschali, compustical texts, prognostic material, charms, annals of Christ Church, Canterbury, extracts from Ælfric's De temporibus anni, and notes on topics like the ages of the world.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains: ff. 1v-2v: an early modern list of contents; ff. 3-117: Jerome's De viri illustribus (Clavis Patrum Latinorum 616) and Vita S Pauli (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 6596), extracts from Isidore's Eymologiae (Books 1, 3) Clavis Patrum Latinorum 1186), book III of Cypr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th century - late 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

147. Cotton MS Augustus II 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 30
Title:
Grant of King Offa of the Mercians (r. 757-796) to the church of St Peter, Bredon
Scope & Content:
King Offa of the Mercians grants ten hides (manentes) at Wærsetfelda (cf. Wast Hills in Alvechurch), five hides (cassati) at Cofton Hackett and five hides (mansae) at Rednal in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, to the church of St Peter, Bredon, for the use of the bishop of Worcester; dated 780, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

148. Cotton MS Claudius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A XII
Title:
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'. ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

149. Cotton MS Augustus II 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 91
Title:
Grant of King Æthelberht II of Kent (d. 762) to Abbot Dunn and the church of St Mary, Lyminge
Scope & Content:
King Æthelberht II of Kent grants a quarter sulung (aratrum) by the River Limen, 120 cartloads of timber, and ten iugera at Sampton (lost, in West Hythe), Kent, to Dunn, priest and abbot, and to the church of St Mary at Lyminge; dated 20 February 732, Canterbury (Sawyer, no. 23). Endorsed in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

150. Cotton MS Tiberius B II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B II
Title:
Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi; Hermann the Archdeacon, Miracula Sancti Edmundi; Survey of the manors of the bishop of Ely; Miscellaneous documents
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of two different parts, written at different time. Both parts were bound together in the early modern period. The first part was written in the late 11th century-early 12th century (after 1097) and contains the Passion of St Edmund by Abbo of Fleury and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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