Search

040-001102977

1. 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

2. 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

3. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:
Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII