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1. Cotton MS Faustina A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints; Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae; Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo; sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains five parts that were written in England during the 12th and 14th centuries (ff. 3-12; 13-24; 25-98; 99-102; 103-106). The larger part of the manuscript (ff. 25r-97r), copied in the first quarter of the 12th century, contains the De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 13–24

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 13–24
Title:
Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 13r-24v: Richard Rolle (b. 1305x10, d. 1349), hermit and religious author, Emendatio Vitae (The Changing of One's Life). Decoration: 1 medium initial in black ink with minor penwork decoration in black and red ink (f. 17r); small (one-line) capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

3. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106
Title:
Sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 103r-106v: Anonymous, sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12; including a macaronic section on ff. 105v-106r concerning the Raising of Lazarus. Decoration: No decoration
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

4. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 99r-99v: Pseudo-Jerome [here attributed], De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii (On The Fifteen Signs before the Day of Judgement). ff. 99v-102r: Anonymous, Liber de Antichristo (Book of the Antichrist), beginning: ‘De antichristo scire volentibus primo dicemus quare sic vocatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

5. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 3–12

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 3–12
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-4v: Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury. ff. 4v-6r: Petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury. f. 6r: A letter of Pope John XXII (r. 1316–1334). ff. 6v-12v: Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

6. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98
Title:
Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-97r: Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (Concerning the Beginning of the Church of Durham), including Bede’s Death Song in Old English and written in an imitative Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule, beginning: ‘Forþam neodfere nenig wyrtheð’. The manuscript cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V