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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:: Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1420
Extent:: A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v
Title:: Ancrene Riwle, with added poems and prayers
Scope & Content:: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) in Middle English (ff. 4r–199r: Boffey 734.5, 1820, 1917, 2285, 3568): this is one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of the text. Added in the 2nd half of the 13th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (ff. 9v lower margin, 57v, 199r–202v): Prayers in Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 202 folios, bound together in a single volume with f. 1 of this manuscript.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Leaf of a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Miniature of the Annunciation attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders (f. 1r); lines from the Te Deum and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1415-c 1420
Extent:: 1 folio, bound together in a single volume with the remainder of this manuscript.

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