List of manuscripts in the Cotton library

This is a list of all manuscripts in the Cotton library

Cotton library

The Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...

, part of the collections of the British Library

British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...

. It is currently incomplete.

Robert Bruce Cotton

Robert Bruce Cotton

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton library....

 organized his library by placing busts of various Roman emperors and ladies over each of his book cabinets. The shelf of each cabinet had a letter assigned to it. Manuscripts were identified by the bust over the cabinet, the shelf letter, followed by its number (in Roman numerals) from the left side of the shelf. Thus, The Lindisfarne Gospels, Nero B IV, was the fourth manuscript from the left on the second shelf (shelf B) of the cabinet under the bust of Nero. A few of the cabinets had only one shelf so that the shelf letter was left out of the shelfmark. The British Museum

British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...

 retained Cotton's organization when the Cotton collection became one of the foundational collections of its library.

The physical arrangement of Cotton's Library continues to be reflected in citations to manuscripts once in his possession. His library was housed in a room 26 feet (7.9 m) long by six feet wide filled with bookpress

Bookpress

A bookpress is either:* a screw press used in the binding or rebinding of books.* an early form of bookcase, used in medieval cloisters, to which books were attached using a chain....

es, each with the bust of a figure from classical antiquity

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...

 on top. Counterclockwise, these are catalogued as Julius

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

 (i.e., Julius Caesar), Augustus, Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period...

, Faustina

Faustina the Younger

Annia Galeria Faustina Minor , Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...

, Tiberius

Tiberius

Tiberius , was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Augustus in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian...

, Caligula

Caligula

Caligula , also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most...

, Claudius

Claudius

Claudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...

, Nero

Nero

Nero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....

, Galba

Galba

Galba , was Roman Emperor for seven months from 68 to 69. Galba was the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, and made a bid for the throne during the rebellion of Julius Vindex...

, Otho

Otho

Otho , was Roman Emperor for three months, from 15 January to 16 April 69. He was the second emperor of the Year of the four emperors.- Birth and lineage :...

, Vitellius

Vitellius

Vitellius , was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was acclaimed Emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors...

, Vespasian

Vespasian

Vespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...

, Titus

Titus

Titus , was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father....

, and Domitian

Domitian

Domitian was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War...

. (Domitian had only one shelf, perhaps because it was over the door.) Manuscripts are now designated by library, bookpress, and number: for example, the manuscript of Beowulf

Beowulf

Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

is designated Cotton Vitellius A.xv, and the manuscript of Pearl

Pearl (poem)

Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", is generally assumed, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness or...

is Cotton Nero A.x.

Augustus

i	Two large portfolios containing a collection of 16th century maps, charts and plans of towns, buildings, fortifications and related items. Some of the items are plans for projects that were never completed.
ii	A portfolio containing a large collection of mostly Anglo-Saxon charters Anglo-Saxon Charters Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in Britain which typically make a grant of land or record a privilege. The earliest surviving charters were drawn up in the 670s; the oldest surviving charters granted land to the Church, but from the eighth century surviving... , also contains a few later medieval charters, Papal Bulls, and some other items. Includes: Item 3 The Ismere Diploma Ismere Diploma The Ismere Diploma is a charter of 736, in which Aethelbald of Mercia grants ten hides of land near Ismere to Cyneberht, his "venerable companion", for the foundation of a coenubium .... ; Item 106 Magna Carta Magna Carta Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date. The charter first passed into law in 1225... : Exemplification of 1215
iii	A portfolio containg a miscellaneous collection of drawings and prints, many of them military in nature.
iv	Troy Book by John Lydgate John Lydgate John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is... , edition of 1555 with some variations. According to heraldic evidence the manuscript was created between 1411 and 1458, probably during Lydgate' lifetime.
v	Le Tresor des Histoires. Universal history, from the Creation to Pope Clement VI Pope Clement VI Pope Clement VI , bornPierre Roger, the fourth of the Avignon Popes, was pope from May 1342 until his death in December of 1352...  (died 1342). 15th century copy, lavishly illuminated.
vi	Le livre des proprietés des choses, translated from Latin to French by Jehan Corbechon under the patronage of Charles V of France Charles V of France Charles V , called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380 and a member of the House of Valois... . 14th century, illuminated.

Caligula

A.ii	Fos. 3–5, A Pistil of Susan" (fragment), probably by Huchoun Huchoun Huchoun or Huchown "of the Awle Ryale" is a poet conjectured to have been writing sometime in the 14th century. Some academics, following the Scottish antiquarian George Neilson , have identified him with a Scottish knight, Hugh of Eglington, and advanced his authorship of several significant... ; fos. 5–13, Sir Eglamour of Artois Sir Eglamour of Artois Sir Eglamour of Artois is a Middle English verse romance that was written sometime around 1350. It is a narrative poem of about 1300 lines, a tail-rhyme romance that was quite popular in its day, judging from the number of copies that have survived – four manuscripts from the 15th century or... ; fos. 22–35, Octavian; fos. 35–42, Sir Launfal Sir Launfal Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late-14th century. It is based primarily on the 538-line Middle English poem Sir Landevale, which in turn was based on Marie de France's lai Lanval, written in a form of French understood in... ; fos. 42–57, Lybeaus Desconus; fos. 71–6, Emaré; fos. 130–4, Sir Isumbras Sir Isumbras Sir Isumbras is a medieval metrical romance written in Middle English and found in no fewer than nine manuscripts dating to the fifteenth century... .
A.vi	Heliand Heliand The Heliand is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means saviour in Old Saxon , and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic saga...
A.viii	Miscellany
A.ix.	The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a 12th- or 13th-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry... ; Layamon Layamon Layamon or Laghamon (ˈlaɣamon; in American English often modernised as ; ), occasionally written Lawman, was a poet of the early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable English poem of the 12th century that was the first English language work to discuss the legends of Arthur and the... , Brut
A.xiv	Caligula Troper
A.xv	(1) fos. 3-117, 8th and 9th-century material from France, which had arrived in England by the 9th or 10th century (2) fos. 120-53, once part of BL Egerton 3314, belong to the 11th century. It consists of two parts: fos. 120-41, part A, computistical texts; annals of Christ Church, Canterbury; Old English and Latin prognostications and charms fos. 142-53, excerpts from Bede Bede Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria... , De temporibus anni, with additional notes.
C.i	Correspondence on relations between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
C.vi	Correspondence of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, with the court of Henry VIII

Claudius

A.iii	Volume of liturgical fragments
B.iv	Illustrated Old English Hexateuch
B.v	Acts of the Council of Constantinople
B.vi	Cotton Genesis Cotton Genesis The Cotton Genesis is a 4th- or 5th-century Greek Illuminated manuscript copy of the Book of Genesis. It was a luxury manuscript with many miniatures. It is one of the oldest illustrated biblical codices to survive to the modern period...  (fragmentary)
B.vii	Manuscript assembled (from earlier materials) for Archbishop Matthew Parker Matthew Parker Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....  (d. 1575). Its contents include (1) legal proceedings; (2) Roger of Howden, Chronicle, (3) Pseudo-Turpin, De gestis Karoli magni Historia Caroli Magni Historia Caroli Magni or Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi , sometimes known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle, is a 12th century Latin forged chronicle of legendary material about Charlemagne's alleged conquest of Spain... ; 'Prester John Prester John The legends of Prester John were popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, and told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient. Written accounts of this kingdom are variegated collections of medieval... ', Epistola ad Manuelem imperatorem, etc.; (4) extracts made in the time of Matthew Parker; (5) Pseudo-Dares Phrygius Dares Phrygius Dares Phrygius , according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer... , De excidio Troie historia; Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur... , Prophetiae Merlini; (6) legal proceedings.
D.iv	fos 48-54 De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi or Of the Unjust Persecution of the Bishop William I is a late 11th century historical work detailing the trial of William de St-Calais, a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham from 1081 to 1096...  (missing introduction and parts of the conclusion)
E.viii	Adamus Murimuthensis, Chronicon Sui Temporis

Cleopatra

A.ii	Life of St Modwenna
A.iii	The Old English 'Cleopatra Glossaries Cleopatra Glossaries Cotton Cleopatra A.iii is an Anglo-Saxon manuscript once held in the Cotton library, now held in the British Library, and contains three glossaries, providing important evidence for Old English vocabulary, as well as for learning and scholarship in Anglo-Saxon England generally... '
A.xvi	Adamus Murimuthensis, Chronicon Sui Temporis
B.iii	Ailred of Rievaulx Ailred of Rievaulx Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:... , Historia Angliae
B.ix	Miscellany
B.xiii	Miscellany (Homilies etc.)
C.viii	Prudentius Prudentius Aurelius Prudentius Clemens was a Roman Christian poet, born in the Roman province of Tarraconensis in 348. He probably died in Spain, as well, some time after 405, possibly around 413... , Conflict Of The Soul
D.i	Miscellany, including (1) Vitruvius Vitruvius Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura .... , De architectura De architectura ' is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects... ; (2) Vegetius, De Re Militari De Re Militari De Re Militari , also Epitoma Rei Militaris, is a treatise by the late Latin writer Vegetius about Roman warfare and military principles as a presentation of methods and practices in use during the height of Rome's power, and responsible for that power...
E.vi	Miscellany, including Sir Thomas More's letter to Henry VIII before execution (ff. 176v - 177)

Domitian

i	Miscellany, includes works by Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville Saint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"... , Bede Bede Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria... , and Gerald of Wales
vii	Durham Liber Vitae
viii	Collection of chronicles. Includes: Item III (ff. 30-70) Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great...  F)
ix	fragment of the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle H), futhorc row

Faustina

A.iii	Cartulary of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster
A.v	Miscellany, separated by Henry Savile the Elder from Dublin, Trinity College 114. It includes the following items: fos. 25r-97r. Symeon of Durham Symeon of Durham Symeon of Durham was an English chronicler and a monk of Durham Priory. When William of Saint-Calais returned from his Norman exile in 1091, Symeon was probably in his company... , Liber de exordio atque procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiae, including Bede's Death Song fos. 99r-99v, Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis fos. 99v-102r, Pseudo-Augustine, De Antichristo quomodo et ubi nasci debeat
A.viii	Abbreviatio de Gestis Normannorum ad Gulielmum I Regem Angliae
A.x	Additional Glosses to the Glossary in Ælfric's Ælfric of Eynsham Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian , Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist...  Grammar
B.iii	Life of Saint Edith in Middle English Verse
B.viii	Register of Chapel of St Stephen, Westminster
B.ix	Chronicle of Melrose Chronicle of Melrose The Chronicle of Melrose is a medieval chronicle from the Cottonian Manuscript, Faustina B. ix within the British Museum. It was written by unknown authors, though evidence in the writing shows that it most likely was written by the monks at Melrose Abbey. The chronicle begins on the year 735 and...
D.i	Statutes of the Order of the Garter, revised under Edward VI

Galba

A.v	Irish Psalter
A.xviii	Athelstan Psalter

Julius

A.x	Old English Martyrology Old English Martyrology The Old English Martyrology is a collection of over 230 hagiographies, probably compiled in Mercia, or by someone who wrote in the Mercian dialect of the Old English language, in the second half of the 9th century....
A.xi	William Fitz Stephen's Life of St Thomas Becket Thomas Becket Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion...
A.xvi	Ailred of Rievaulx, De Gestis Davidis Regis Scottorum
B.xiii	Miscellany, including Item 1: Hugh of Saint-Victor's Chronicle from Deeping Priory
C.xii	Ailred of Rievaulx Ailred of Rievaulx Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:... , De Regibus Saxorum
E.iv	"Beauchamp Pageants", c. 1484–90
E.vii	Ælfric Ælfric Ælfric of Abingdon , also known as Ælfric of Wessex, was a late 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as previously holding the offices of abbot of St Albans and Bishop of Ramsbury, all of which are in England... 's Lives of Saints
E.viii	Lydgate John Lydgate John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is... , 'Kings of England sithen William Conqueror', The Three Kings of Cologne, Brut Chronicle.
F.vi	Charges brought against Cardinal Wolsey, 1529

Nero

A.ii	Anglo-Saxon Prayerbook
A.v	Computus of Philippe de Thaon
A.x	Pearl Pearl (poem) Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", is generally assumed, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness or... , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his... , Patience Patience (poem) Patience is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl-Poet or Gawain-Poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness and may have... , and Cleanness Cleanness Cleanness is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have...
A.xi	(1) Carta caritatis posterior (13th century), (2) Pseudo-Turpin, De gestis Karoli magni; De miraculis apostoli Iacobi, (3) Orderic Vitalis Orderic Vitalis Orderic Vitalis was an English chronicler of Norman ancestry who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. The modern biographer of Henry I of England, C...  and Gesta Normannorum ducum Gesta Normannorum Ducum Gesta Normannorum Ducum is a chronicle originally created by the monk William of Jumièges just before 1060. In 1070 William I had William of Jumièges extend the work to detail his rights to the throne of England. In later times, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds... , (4) excerpts from Pseudo-Jerome, De essentia diuinitatis, (5) Jerome, Aduersus Iouinianum.
B.i	Royal diplomatic correspondence concerning Portugal
B.viii	Royal diplomatic correspondence concerning Russia
B.xi	Royal diplomatic correspondence concerning Russia
C.iv	Winchester Psalter
C.v	Marianus Scotus Marianus Scotus Marianus Scotus , was an Irish monk and chronicler , was an Irishman by birth, and called Máel Brigte, or Devotee of St... , Chronicle; Bartholomew Cotton, Historia Anglicana
C.vii	Miscellany
C.ix	Miscellany
C.x	• Item 1 Autograph diary of Edward VI • Item 2 Letters of Edward VI to Henry VIII and Katherine Parr
C.xi	Robert Fabyan, Chronicle of England and France
D.i	Matthew of Paris, Liber additamentorum
D.ii	Order of Ceremony for the Knights of the Bath
D.iv	Lindisfarne Gospels Lindisfarne Gospels The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the British Library...
D.x	Adamus Murimuthensis, Chronicon Sui Temporis
E.i	Miscellany in two parts. (1) The first and earliest part is the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, a Worcester manuscript (1050 x 1075) which includes Byrhtferth Byrhtferth Byrhtferth was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey. He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo-Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historical works. He was a leading man of science and best known as the author of many different works... 's Life of Oswald, his Life of Ecgwine and Lantfred of Winchester Lantfred Lantfred of Fleury , also known as Lantfred of Winchester, was a 10th and 11th century Anglo-Saxon monk who lived in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He was originally from the French town of Fleury-sur-Loire. Lantfred is famous for having written Vita S. Swithuni and Translatio et miracula S.... 's Translatio et Miracula S. Swithuni. (2) In the second part, various texts with dates ranging between the 10th and 13th century are bound together. These include the Oswald Cartulary and IV Edgar (a law-code belonging to King Edgar, r. 959-975). Folios 182 and 183 of Cotton Nero E.i, pt.2 (Worcester cartulary), are now bound separately as London, BL, MS. Add. 46204.

Otho

A.x	Æthelweard, Chronicon de Rebus Anglicis
A.xii	The Battle of Maldon The Battle of Maldon The Battle of Maldon is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion... (destroyed in 1731)
B.x	Mary of Egypt (fragmentary)
B.x.165	Old English Rune poem Rune poem The Rune Poems are three poems that list the letters of runic alphabets while providing an explanatory poetic stanza for each letter. Three different poems have been preserved: the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem, the Norwegian Rune Poem, and the Icelandic Rune Poem.The Icelandic and Norwegian poems list 16...  (destroyed in 1731)
B.xi.2	fragment of the Parker Chronicle (the Winchester Chronicle)
C.i	Volume containing fragments of the four Gospels, Dialogues of Gregory the Great, Ælfric Ælfric Ælfric of Abingdon , also known as Ælfric of Wessex, was a late 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as previously holding the offices of abbot of St Albans and Bishop of Ramsbury, all of which are in England... 's De creatore et creatura and other pieces in Old English.
C.ii	Adamus Murimuthensis, Chronicon Sui Temporis
C.v	Otho-Corpus Gospels Otho-Corpus Gospels The Otho-Corpus Gospels is a badly damaged and fragmentary 8th century illuminated manuscript. It was part of the Cotton library and was mostly burnt in the 1731 fire at Ashburnham House. The manuscript now survives as charred fragments in the British Library . Thirty six pages of the manuscript... (fragmentary)
C.ix	Letters of the Grand Masters of Rhodes to Henry VIII
C.xi	Layamon Layamon Layamon or Laghamon (ˈlaɣamon; in American English often modernised as ; ), occasionally written Lawman, was a poet of the early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable English poem of the 12th century that was the first English language work to discuss the legends of Arthur and the... , Brut
E.i	Latin-Old English Glossary
E.iv	Letters of Intelligence from Paris to the Court of Elizabeth I
E.xiii	Legal Miscellany

Tiberius

A.ii	Ottonian Gospels, donated to King Athelstan and by Athelstan to Christ Church, Canterbury.
A.iii	Miscellany. Includes: f. 3-27. Regularis Concordia Regularis Concordia (Winchester) The Regularis Concordia, or Monastic Agreement, was a document produced at Winchester, England, in about 970.The document was compiled by Æthelwold, who was aided by monks from Fleury and Ghent. A synodal council was summoned to construct a common rule of life to be observed by all monasteries... (Item 1) Rule of St. Benedict (Item 43) f. 55–6v, 94v–7. Late Old English Handbook for a Confessor Handbook for a Confessor The title Handbook for a Confessor, or in full, Late Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor, refers to a compilation of Old English and Latin penitential texts associated with – and possibly authored or adapted by – Wulfstan , Archbishop of York . The handbook was intended for the use of... .
A.vi	Abingdon Chronicle I (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle B)
A.ix	Abbreviatio de Gestis Normannorum ad Gulielmum I Regem Angliae
A.xiii	Worcester cartularies, including Hemming's Cartulary Hemming's Cartulary Hemming's Cartulary is a manuscript cartulary, or collection of charters and other land records, collected by a monk named Hemming around the time of the Norman Conquest of England. The manuscript comprises two separate cartularies that were made at different times and later bound together. The... by Hemming Hemming (monk) Hemming was a monk, author and compiler in medieval England from around the time of the Norman Conquest of England. He was a senior brother at Worcester Cathedral Priory, and his significance derives from the monastic cartulary attributed to him.Hemming's name is Scandinavian, which may mean...
A.xiv	Bede Bede Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria... , Historia Ecclesiastica
A.xv	Canterbury Letterbook, collection of letters
B.i	Abingdon Chronicle II (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle C. Singed by the 1731 fire.
B.ii	Miscellany, including Miracles of St Edmund, in verse
B.iv	Collection of Chronicles, Histories and related material. Includes: Item 1 - Worcester Chronicle (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D)
B.v	Scientific Miscellany
B.viii	The Coronation Book of Charles V of France
C.i	Miscellany.
C.ii	Bede, Ecclesiastical History Bede, Ecclesiastical History (British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II) British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has...
C.vi	Tiberius Psalter
C.ix	Historia Vitae et Regni Ricardi Secundi from Evesham Abbey
D.iii	includes Vita Sancti Niniani Vita Sancti Niniani The Vita Sancti Niniani or simply Vita Niniani is a Latin language Christian hagiography written in northern England in the mid-12th century. Using two earlier Anglo-Latin sources, it was written by Ailred of Rievaulx seemingly at the request of a Bishop of Galloway...
D.iv (part ii)	Formerly part of Winchester, Cathedral Library I; includes Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica; De abbatibus De abbatibus De abbatibus is a Latin poem in eight hundred and nineteen hexameters by the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon monk Æthelwulf , a name meaning "noble wolf", which the author sometimes Latinises as Lupus Clarus... (ff. 158v-66r)
E.x	"History of Richard III". Damaged in 1731 fire.

Titus

A.xix	Ailred of Rievaulx Ailred of Rievaulx Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:... , De Gestis Davidis Regis Scottorum
A.xv & A.xvi	John Joscelyn John Joscelyn John Joscelyn or John Joscelin was an English clergyman and antiquarian as well as secretary to Matthew Parker, a Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Joscelyn was involved in Parker's attempts to secure and publish medieval manuscripts on church history, and... , an Old English-Latin dictioonary
B.i	Order for the tournament on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, France, 1520
B.ii	Horoscope of Elizabeth I
B.viii	Sir Walter Ralegh's autograph journal of his second voyage to Guiana, 1617–18
C.xvi	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
D.iv	Latin Epigrams of Sir Thomas More, on the coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, 1509
D.xxvi	Ælfwine's Prayerbook

Vespasian

A.i	Vespasian Psalter Vespasian Psalter The Vespasian Psalter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated Psalter produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation of any portion of the Bible. It was produced in southern England, perhaps in St...
A.viii	New Minster Reformation Charter
A.xv	Vocabularium Cornicum
A.xviii	Ailred of Rievaulx Ailred of Rievaulx Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:... , De Gestis Davidis Regis Scottorum
A.xix	Miscellany
B.ix	History of the foundation of the hospital and priory of St Bartholomew, Smithfield
B.xi	Chronicle Of Hagnaby Abbey
B.xx	Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints
C.i	Correspondence of the Spanish royal court with the court of Henry VIII
D.vi	Miscellany
D.xii	Latin Hymnal with Old English gloss
D.xiv	Miscellany of the mid-12th century. It has most of Ælfric Ælfric of Eynsham Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian , Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist... 's Catholic Homilies (first and second series) and cites from Ælfric's letters to Sigeferth and Wulfstan. Other works include a Life of Saint Neot; homily on the Phoenix; Old English Dicts of Cato; prognostications; the Vision of St Furseus; translations of Ralph d'Escures' homily on Mary; excerpts from Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium.
D.xix	(1) Nigel Witeker, Miracula sancte Dei genitricis uirginis Marie and other poems; (2) Ely Chronicle (12th century); (3) Easter-table chronicle; (4) Hildebert of Le Mans, certain letters and sermons.
E.iv	Miscellany

Vitellius

A.viii	Annals of Lacock Abbey
A.x	Statutes of Lichfield Cathedral
A.xii	Penitential of Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter
A.xiii	Genealogy of the Dukes of Normandy
A.xv	Nowell Codex Nowell Codex Cotton Vitellius A. xv is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices. It is most famous as the manuscript containing the unique copy of the epic poem Beowulf; in addition to this it contains a fragment of The Life of Saint Christopher, and the more complete texts Letters of Alexander to...  (Beowulf Beowulf Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single... , Judith Judith (poem) The Old English poem "Judith" describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia. Various other versions of the Holofernes-Judith tale exist. These include the Book of Judith, still present in the Roman Catholic Bible, and Abbot Ælfric's homily of the tale... )
A.xx	Descriptio Constantinopolis
B.ii	Diplomatic letters to Henry VIII. Singed by fire.
B.iv	Bull of Pope Leo X, 1521, granting Henry VIII the title "Defender of the Faith". Badly damaged by fire, 1731
B.v	Letters of Pope Adrian VI to Henry VIII
B.viii	Letters of Pope Clement VII to Henry VIII
C. iii	Anglo-Saxon Herbal
C.viii	Miscellany, including Epistles of St. Paul from Durham
C.xi	Treaty of Marriage between Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
C.xii	Miscellany
C.xvii	The Manner of Sir Philip Sidney's Death
E.ii	Grandes Chroniques de France
E.vii	Giraldus Cambrensis Giraldus Cambrensis Gerald of Wales , also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times... , Life and Miracles of St Æthelberht
E.XVIII	Psalter with interlinear Old English Gloss
F.xi	Vitellius Psalter (Irish)