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Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Nero A X/1

1. Cotton MS Nero A X/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A X/1
Title:
Works of Justus de Justis and theological excerpts
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Bibliothecae Cottonianae (Oxfo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1250-1475
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Nero A X/1, ff 1–40

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Cotton MS Nero A X/1, ff 1–40
Title:
Writings of Justus de Justis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Flyleaves containing traces of a now illegible text in a 16th century ?Humanistic hand (f. 1), over which Robert Cotton has written binding instructions; a table of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638), Robert Cotton's librarian (f. 3r); a stanza from John of Ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex consisting of 40 folios, bound together with ff 131-144 in a single volume.

3. Cotton MS Nero A X/1 ff 131–144

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Cotton MS Nero A X/1 ff 131–144
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 134r–143r: Theological excerpts including Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissime de cognitione humane conditionis, copied in the second quarter of the 13th century; f. 144v: Epitaph of Ranulf Brito, abbot of Ramsey (1231–53), added in the third quarter of the 13th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex consisting of 14 folios, bound together with ff 1-40 in a single volume