General category: English manuscripts
A lost manuscript of Asser’s Life of King Alfred. Originally an independent manuscript and later part of what once constituted London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho A xii, it was destroyed by the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Although the original is irretrievably lost, significant information about its character and contents can be gleaned from transcripts and descriptions written before the fire.
- c.1000
A manuscript of the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon, now lost.
Fragment of Richard FitzRalph, De pauperie Salvatoris (al. De paupertate Christi).
- s. xv2/4
- s. xiv
A manuscript containing what is known as the First Variant of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (ff. 23r-65v).
- s. xiiiex/xivin
Fragment of six folios which belongs together with fragments in other MSS held in Durham, C.III.13, ff. 192–195, and C.III.20, ff. 1-2.
- s. viimed
Two fragments of Insular gospel manuscripts, both produced at Northumbrian centres.
- s. viiex/viiiin
- s. viiex/viiiin
Quires added to the original southern English manuscript of the Durham collectar and written for the most part by Aldred, priest at Chester-le-Street.
- s. x
Flyleaf fragment of an Insular gospel fragment. Other leaves are in MSS A.II.10 and C.III.20.
- s. viimed
Fragments of a 7th-century Insular gospelbook, probably once reused as flyleaves but now preserved separately. Other leaves of the original MS are in A.II.10 and C.III.13.
- s. viimed
Cartulary of Old Minster, Winchester.
- 1130 x 1150
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
- s. xii
A copy of Conchubranus’ Vita sanctae Moninnae.
- s. xiiin
- s. xii