Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho B xi Fragment: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (manuscript G); Old English laws

Old English, Latin
s. xiⁱⁿ
English manuscripts
parchment

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

England London, British Library

Collection: Cotton manuscripts

Shelfmark

Cotton Otho B xi

Type

histories

Description

Incl. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript G (fragment).

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Old English, Latin

Date

s. xiⁱⁿ

Early 11th century.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

State of existence

fragmentary

Material

parchment

Condition

Nearly all of it was destroyed in the Cotton Library fire of 1731

The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

English manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Fragmentarium: laboratory for medieval manuscript fragments, Online: University of Fribourg, ?–present. URL: <https://fragmentarium.ms>.

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