Manuscripts

General category: English manuscripts

Results (51–75/139)
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.

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
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
Not yet published.

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
Not yet published.

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
Not yet published.
  • s. xii–xiv
London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho D viii
Not yet published.
  • s. xiiiex
London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho D viii
Not yet published.
  • s. xii2/4

Two 14th-century manuscript volumes containing a unique copy of John Tynemouth’s hagiographic compilation Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae.

  • s. xiv2
London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius E i

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
London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius E i
Not yet published.

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