Cotton MS Claudius A I

This codex contains items from 4 originally separate medieval manuscripts, copied between the mid-10th and 14th century.

f. 1r-v: Passio Sancti Cypriani (compare Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2037, imperfect) and Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (1r–v: imperfect), copied in the 14th century. This leaf originally formed part of the same manuscript as f. 158;

ff. 2r-v: blank, apart from libray markings;

ff. 3r-4r: early modern table of contents;

f. 4v: blank

f. 5r: Alcuin, Carmen xviii, copied in the second half of the 10th century;

ff. 5v-36v: Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae Beati Wilfridi (Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8891–92), written in the mid-10th century;

ff. 37r-40v: Papal, episcopal and royal letters, from Popes Gregory VII (r. 1073–1085), Paschal II (r. 1099–1118), Gelasius II (r. 1118–1119), Anastasius IV (r. 1153–1154) and Lucius III (r. 1181–1185), Alexander I, king of Scots (r. 1107–1124), Eadmer of Canterbury and others, including the Concordat of Worms of 1122, copied in the 12th century;

ff. 41r-157v: various hagiographies, including Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inuentio 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 Marie; Vita sancte Marie Egyptiace, translated by Paul the Deacon; Pseudo-Aurelianus, Vita sancti Martialis episcopi; Leontius of Naples, Vita sancti Iohannis Eleemosynarii, as translated by Anastasius Bibliothecarius; Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti episcopi; excerpts from Bede, Historia eccleisatica gentis Anglorum, copied between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and 1st quarter of the 12th century;

f. 158r-v: Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (imperfect) and Passio Sancti Cypriani (compare Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2037, imperfect), copied in the 14th century. This leaf originally formed part of the same manuscript as f. 1.