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851. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XII
Title:
Computistical memoranda; Ecgberht of York, Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae; Hrabanus Maurus, De Computo; Eight computistical poems; De Septem Miraculis Mundi; De Duobus Verticibus Mundi; De Diebus Aegyptiacis; Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum; De Vocibus Litterarum; Greek and Hebrew alphabets with interpretations; Untitled computistical tract; De Sex Aetatibus Hominis; Isidore of Seville (Pseudo-Gildas), De Natura R...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscripts contains six parts (f. 3; ff. 4-77; ff. 79-86; ff. 87-107; ff. 109-135 and ff. 136-185) that were produced between the late 11th and late 12th centuries. The six parts perhaps may all have been written in England and were probably joined together in the library of Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

852. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX
Title:
Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti; Latin poems entitled 'De quattuor clavibus sapientiae'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; extract from Juvencus, Evangeliorum libri; note on 'De sacro baptismate'; hymn for St Martin and 'Alleluia' verses with musical notation; Bede, Vita metrica sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of Latin texts relating to St Cuthbert, including both Bede's prose and verse vitae of Cuthbert and excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica pertaining to Cuthbert. There are Old English glosses, apparently in the same hand as the main text, added to Bede's p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

853. Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

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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

854. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII
Title:
Chronicle of Chichester Cathedral; List of bishops; Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts that were produced at separate locations in England and at separate moments during the 12th century. The first part (ff. 1r-17v) contains the Annals of Chichester and was produced at the Cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester. The second part (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

855. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
Title:
A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus', followed by an added prayer written by a contemporary hand, beginning: 'Deus qui salutis eterne Beate Marie'. f. 2v: A lunar calendar for calculating the moveable feasts. ff. 3r-8v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

856. Cotton MS Vitellius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III
Title:
(1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

857. Cotton MS Vitellius C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C V
Title:
Old English Homilies, including the first series of Ælfric, Catholic Homilies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies copied in last quarter of the 10th century or 1st quarter of the 11th century. In the 1st half of the 11th century, further sermons, including sermons from the second series and other homilies in the style of Ælfric, were in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

858. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII
Title:
Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121 (Chronica de Anglia); Lines on Egyptian days, a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus, notes on Septuagesima, Lent, Easter, epacts and concurrents; the letters of Adam Marsh; Paul, Epistulae, with glosses derived from Pelagius; Domesday abbreviation for Kent; Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus, Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis; a theological treatise on vices and v...
Scope & Content:
Royal MS 6 C VIII originally formed part of the same manuscript from Rievaulx as the folios now in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 4r-21v. The remainder of the 8th-century, Northumbrian manuscript in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 85r-90v is now Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 10. 5. Other leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

859. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
Title:
Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

860. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
Title:
Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

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