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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius E VII
Title:: Ælfric, Lives of Saints; Ælfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin; De falsis diis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the earliest known copies of Ælfric's Lives of the Saints, along with two other texts associated with Ælfric and four possibly anonymous saints' lives (Euphrosyne, Eustace, Mary of Egypt, and the Seven Sleepers). All of these texts were apparently intended as a si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st third of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius F II
Title:: Middle English translations of the Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden and Alfonso Fernández Pecha, Epistola solitarii ad reges
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint, Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). The other full-text copy survives in Cotton MS Claudius B I. Also pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I
Title:: Early modern index; Anglo-Saxon law codes I Cnut, II Cnut, II-III Edgar, the law codes of Alfred and of Ine (imperfect), Romscot, and Judex; completion of the law codes of Alfred and of Ine by John Joscelyn (d. 1603); Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; other additions, including an Easter table, the law codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund (imperfect), III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred; a law code beginning 'Godes grið', in the style of...
Scope & Content:: This codex contains Anglo-Saxon law codes and writings related to Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-v, 178r-180v: early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione Presbiterii'; ff. 3r-57v: Ang...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 11th-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A II
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment); Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece; Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers; Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de cursus; Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defen...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of five parts (f. 1; f. 2; ff. 3-13; ff. 14-45; ff. 46-108) that were produced separately between the 8th and 15th centuries and joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The manuscript contains a wide variety of theological,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A V
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Bestiarius; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is composed of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-82v), dating to the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains two Anglo-Norman works by Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman poet. The first work is his Comput (Computus)−the oldest extant scientific tex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VII
Title:: Lanfranc, Epistolae; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; Bretha Nemed toísech
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made out of three parts of different origins, written at different times. The first part (ff. 1-112) was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter of the 11th century and contains the Epistolae (Letters) of Lanfranc (b. 1005 , d. 108...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1075-c 1571
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C V
Title:: Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory X addressed to the bishops of London and Ely
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r). ff. 162r-285v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (English History). ff. 282r-283r: a bull of Pope Gregory X (1272-1276) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C VII
Title:: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect. ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey. ff. 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C X
Title:: Papers of King Edward VI
Scope & Content:: ff. 2–4: Correspondence relating to Prince Edward of England (the future King Edward VI). ff. 5–9: Letters of Prince Edward of England (ff. 5, 7–9 in Latin). ff. 10–83: Diary of Edward VI, king of England (1547–1553). ff. 84–117: Miscellaneous documents relating to the reign of Edward VI (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1537-1553
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D IV
Title:: Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 700
Extent:: 1 volume

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