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2501. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v

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Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v
Title:
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De formis qualiter causarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of grammatical treatises and a poem. It includes: ff. 2r–31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v–47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon (Schaller and Köngsen, Initia (1977), no. 5725); ff. 48r–53r: De formis q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI

2502. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 126r–161v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 126r–161v
Title:
Gloucester Chronicle and record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: ff. 126v-144v: the Gloucester Chronicle, from AD 681 to the abbacy of Walter Froucester (d. 1412); ff. 145v-161v: record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

2503. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 2–11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 2–11
Title:
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar of Saints. ff. 8r-8v: Computistical tables (Dominical Letters). ff. 9r-10r: A Lunar calendar with prognostics, followed by solar and lunar tables. f. 10v: Instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle. The manuscript c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

2504. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

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Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

2505. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 68–83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 68–83
Title:
A penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, homilia xx).
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 68r: Title in Old English: 'Þis siondon ondetnessa to gode seolfum'. ff. 68r-69v: A prayer: 'Ego peccavi quando non dulgebam in me peccantibus'. ff. 69v-79r: a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum. Rubric: 'De confessio peccatorum et penitentie Isidori'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV.

2506. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, f 1
Title:
Anonymous treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Anonymous fragment of a treatise on the singing of the Psalms (‘ad cantandos sibi psalmos’), written in the first half of the 12th century. [f. 1r is blank]. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

2507. Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff 8–130

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff 8–130
Title:
Battle Chronicle ('Short Chronicle'); Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli ('Long Chronicle')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle’, beginning: ‘Quoniam de situ et institucione loci nostri ecclesie scilicet beati Martini de Bello aliquanta iam memorie commendata ad posterorum monimentum nobis in promptu habentur’, ending: ‘Pro mortuis, abbas nichil cum al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A II

2508. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178
Title:
Genealogy of the West Saxon kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 178r-178v: a genealogy of West Saxon kings to Edward the Martyr. This genealogy was originally part of the same manuscript as the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff. 1-35), which was probably copied between 977 and 978. Decoration: 1 small initial i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

2509. Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 88r–90v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 88r–90v
Title:
Extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, E-text, AD 1123–1131 copied by John Joscelyn
Scope & Content:
These folios contain extracts from the E-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 1123–1131, copied by John Joscelyn (d. 1603).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B IV

2510. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 1-16

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 1-16
Title:
Chronicle of Chichester Cathedral, AD 1-1178; List of bishops
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: A chronicle of Chichester from the birth of St John the Baptist to 1164, with additions from the 1170s and 1220; largely based on the works of the Benedictine monks and historians Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735) and William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1090, d. in or after 1142), and the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1150
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

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