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2461. Cotton MS Tiberius B V/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/2
Title:
Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
Scope & Content:
This volume contains Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum. This commentary on the Old Testament prophets is preceded by a letter purporting to be from Joachim, founder and abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Fiore (d. 1202) to Emperor Henry VI, and the work was therefore wrongly attribu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 codex consisting of 60 parchment folios

2462. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84
Title:
Adam Marsh, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the largest collection of letters of Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco (d. 1259), a Franciscan friar and biblical scholar. The last letter ends imperfectly. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red or brown (f. 26r, 61v). Text in three columns (f. 57r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd third of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

2463. Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 114–122

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 114–122
Title:
Book of Genesis, excerpt; De Conceptione Beate Marie Virginis
Scope & Content:
This part was written by two scribes: the first scribe worked in the last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century (114r-120v); the second scribe worked in the 1st half of the 15th century (120v-122r). Contents: ff. 114r-120v: Excerpt from the Book of Genesis, excerpt (Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

2464. Cotton MS Nero E I/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains: ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

2465. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

2466. Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 41r–157v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 41r–157v
Title:
Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti Nazarii; Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi and Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi; Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, De spiritali prato; Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, Epistola ad Abram filiam suam; Hilary of Arles, Sermo in depositione sancti Honorati episcopi; Libellus de nativitate sancte Dei genetricis Mari...
Scope & Content:
This item includes a variety of haiographical works, written in the late 11th or early 12th century. These include: ff. 41r–43r: Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no.377); ff. 43r–46r: Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii (Bibliotheca Hagiographica...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A I

2467. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 2r-v, 178r-180v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 2r-v, 178r-180v
Title:
Early modern index (A–V)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione presbiterii'. Folio 2 contains the entries under the letters A-E, while ff. 178-80 contain the entries E-V.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

2468. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124
Title:
Cosmographia (Comosgraphy of Aethicus Ister), with Latin and Old English glosses.
Scope & Content:
The Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister) was written in the first part of the 8th century, perhaps at Salzburg. The work purports to be an abbreviation by St Jerome (d. 420) of a cosmography made by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. Aethicus relates his travels to islands in the Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

2469. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71
Title:
Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various hymns and poems, all copied in what is now France or Germany in the first half of the 9th century: ff. 41r–68v: Sedulius, Paschale carmen (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 11692); ff. 68v–70v: Sedulius, Hymnus i (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

2470. Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 37–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 37–125
Title:
Transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, much of it in the hand of Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), including a memorandum on the Bewcastle Cross (37r); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D- and E-texts (38r–57r); Irish chronicle (‘Grace’s Annals’), AD 948–1536 (59r–88r); genealogies of Irish families (91r–92v); An abbreuiate of the getting of Ireland and of the decaye of the same, interspersed with maps of Ireland and Scotland (93r–107r); maps of England with Anglo-Saxon place-names (110...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Old English (38r–57r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
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