General category: English manuscripts
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
- s. xiv1/4
A copy of the Historia Brittonum in the recension ascribed to Gildas.
- s. xiv
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
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
Fragments from a composite English manuscript which suffered severe losses and damage in the Ashburnham House fire of 23 October 1731. About two thirds of the manuscript was destroyed.
- s. xi–xii
- Matthew Parker
Early English manuscript containing a Latin Life of St Ælfheah of Cantebury written by the monk Osbern, together with a narrative text about the translation of his remains.
- s. xi2
- s. xiiiex
- s. xii2/4
- s. xi1–xii2
- s. xi–xii + xiv/xv
- s. xiiex/xiiiin
Two 14th-century manuscript volumes containing a unique copy of John Tynemouth’s hagiographic compilation Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae.
- s. xiv2
Includes lives of Aelred of Rievaulx, Kentigern, Fursa, Cadoc, Gildas, Brigit, Teilo, Aidan, David, Winwaloe, Piran, Patrick, Gwynllyw, Brynach, Caradoc, Paternus, Indract, Carantoc and Petroc; as well as texts of Brendan’s Navigatio, Patrick’s Purgatorium and the vision of Tundal.
- s. xiv2
Including lives of saints Petroc (continued), Gudwal, Margaret of Scotland, Alban, Oudoceus, Modwenna, Samson, Neot, Kined/Cenydd, Fiacre, Aidan; Ninian, Melorius, Ywi/Iwig, Ursula, Ethbin, Mellon, Maglorius, Foellan, Malachy, Benignus, Clydog, Illtud, Cyby, Dubricius, Machutus, Columbanus, Tathaeus and Finian of Clonard.
- s. xiv2