Contents: ff. 1, 4: Parchment flyleaves with contents. ff. 5-117: Three Latin-Old English glossaries. ff. 5r-75v: Alphabetical glossary from A-P, beginning: 'Anhelantium eþgiendra', ending: 'Palpitraret clæpette', also in Cotton MS Otho E I. ff. 76r-91v: Glossary arranged mainly by subjec...
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written at different periods of time. The first part (ff. 1-5) was produced in England in the second half of the 13th century and contains parts of papal and conciliar decretals. The second part (ff. 7-239) was perhaps produced at Bath in...
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...
Eardwulf grants one sulung (aratrum) and one ‘yokelet’ at Hamme (‘The Ham’, near Faversham, Kent), to Wighelm, in return for 120 mancuses of gold: 875 (Sawyer, no. 1203). With a confirmation by Archbishop Plegmund of Canterbury: 890 × 923. Endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘Hammes boc’; and in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an ornate copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. The text and decoration has been badly damaged by fire in some places. Decoration: large coloured initials and capitals (ff. 1r, 39r); decorative lines in the margin (ff. 51r-57r, 65r-66v, 109v-111r); rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 8th century-1st quarter of 9th century
Will of Badanoth Beotting; 845 × 853 (Sawyer, no. 1510). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘.anglice.’ and ‘Testamentum badnoði qui dedit familie ecclesie cristi terram quam habuit de rege. aðeluulfo’; and in a 14th-century hand, ‘Anno D.CCCº.xxxº.viiº’ and ‘xii’.
Will of Abba, reeve, including the bequest of a half-sulung at Chillenden, Kent; 833 × 839, possibly 835, in English (Sawyer, no. 1482). With English endorsement detailing the arrangements made by Heregyth, his wife, for an annual food-render to be paid to Christ Church, Canterbury, from her es...
Agreement between Eadweald, son of Oshere, and Cynethryth, widow of Ealdorman Æthelmod, concerning land at (Little) Chart, Kent: 863 × 870, perhaps 867 × 870 (Sawyer, no. 1200).
This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation, containing parts of three separate Pontificals copied between late 10th or early 11th and 12th centuries (two of which include coronation ordos); some records pertaining to Christ Church which were originally copied into the Gospel-book in Cotton Tiberius A II be...