Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Cotton library, MS Otho A xii/ff. 1-55
- c.1000
Results for Cotton library, MS Otho A xii/ff. 1-55 (1)
Cotton library, MS Otho A xii
Not yet published.
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
