Manuscripts

General category: Other manuscripts

Results (51–75/161)
The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.

Contains a fragment of Adamnán's De locis sanctis.

  • s. ix

Carolingian manuscript containing material relating to Virgil’s life and works as well as to Sedulius’ Carmen Paschale. It appears to have served as a schoolbook and was compiled under the direction of Martin of Laon, who was himself responsible for a substantial number of annotations.

  • s. ix3/4
  • Martin of Laon

Cartulary of Old Minster, Winchester.

  • 1130 x 1150
Not yet published.

A 12th-century manuscript, probably from St Neots, Huntingdonshire, containing a copy of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica, preceded by hagiographical material relating to St Neot.

  • s. xi2/xii1

Miscellany which appears to have been compiled by Thomas Tenison (1636–1715) at a time when he was rector of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. It includes a copy of a catalogue of manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir James Ware.

  • s. xviiex
London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A viii
Not yet published.
  • s. xii

A copy of Conchubranus’ Vita sanctae Moninnae.

  • s. xiiin
London, British Library, MS Cotton Cleopatra B iv
Not yet published.
  • s. xii

Composite manuscript. The first 55 folios contains English (especially Anglo-Latin) material written between the 10th and early 12th centuries. The subsequent folios (ff. 56-160) belong to a manuscript of St David's from 13th century and later.

  • s. x/xiiin + s. xiii and later
London, British Library, MS Cotton Faustina B vi
Not yet published.
  • s. xiv1/4
Not yet published.
  • s. xiii/xiv
London, British Library, MS Cotton Julius D v
Not yet published.

A copy of the Historia Brittonum in the recension ascribed to Gildas.

  • s. xiv
London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A ii
Not yet published.

Fragment of an early English prayer-book, with calendrical and computistical material. It is thought to have belonged originally with Cotton Galba A xiv.

  • s. xiin

A composite manuscript that includes matter pertaining to Anselm and Lanfranc, archbishops of Canterbury; a 16th-century Irish manuscript containing a copy of Bretha Nemed toísech; and Henry of Saltry's description of St Patrick's Purgatory.

London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero E i

English manuscript containing a large chunk of the so-called ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, being the first part of what was originally the first volume. In addition to Lives of saints of continental or English origin, the legendary also includes the Lives of St. Brigit and St. Fursa and the writings of St. Patrick.

  • s. xi2/xii2/4