General category: Other manuscripts
Anglo-Saxon, probably Mercian prayer-book
- s. viiiex/x1/4
Miscellany of late antique and early medieval Latin texts. It contains the earliest extant copy of the Historia Brittonum together with a text of the Annales Cambriae and a set of Welsh genealogies, which were both interpolated into the Historia after the section occasionally referred to as the ‘northern history’. A text of possible Irish interest is that of the Cosmographia of Aethicus Ister.
- s. xiex/xiiin
- s. xiii–xiv
Robert Cotton’s catalogue of more than 400 manuscripts in his library.
- 1621
- Robert Cotton
Legendary of the saints of England, incl. Aidanus, Modwenna and Wenefrida.
- s. xiv
- s. xv
Two hagiographic manuscripts of distinct origin, which were bound together, possibly in the 16th century.
- s. x–xii
- s. x2/xi
- c. 1196-1223
An 18th-century two-volume collection of drawings and sketches of antiquities from England and Cornwall (vol. 1, ff. 9-78), Wales (vol. 1, ff. 79-181, and vol. 2, ff. 1-78), Scotland (vol. 2. ff. 79-124) and Ireland (vol. 2, ff. 125-196). They represent unique copies, less likely originals, of sketches that were made by Edward Lhuyd, or one of his assistants and correspondents, during his journeys through Britain and Ireland c.1700. The collection was made for the antiquarian John Anstis. Also included is a letter from Richard Richardson to Edward Lhuyd, dated 3 July 1709 (i.e. shortly after the recipient's death).
- s. xviii
- s. xiiiex/xivin
- s. xvii/xviiiin
- William Griffith, Thomas Tenison
A Latin bible, produced in England or perhaps in Ireland. Irish verses are found on f. 375/376v.
- s. xiii
13th-century English manuscript containing Latin Lives of St Martin (by Sulpicius Severus), St Nicholas of Myra (by John the Deacon), St Edmund of Canterbury and St Margaret, De inventione sanctae Crucis, and Lives St Agatha, St Brendan (Navigatio) and St Brigit (by Lawrence of Durham).
- s. xiii2
Commentaries on the biblical prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Zachariah and Malachi, followed by Galfridus' life of St Bernard of Clairvaux and a version of the Navigatio sancti Brendani related to the Old French poem on the same subject.
- s. xiiex/xiiiin