Cotton Library - Selected Manuscripts

Selected Manuscripts

For a full list of manuscripts see List of manuscripts in the Cotton library.

Notable manuscripts:

• Augustus
  • ii.106 Magna Carta: Exemplification of 1215
• Caligula
  • A.ii "A Pistil of Susan" (frag.) (probably by Huchoun)
  • A.xv Easter Table Chronicle
• Claudius
  • B.vi Cotton Genesis (fragmentary)
  • D.ii Leges Henrici Primi, an illuminated manuscript of a 12th century legal treatise, copied around 1310
  • D.iv fos 48-54 De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi (missing introduction and parts of the conclusion)
• Cleopatra
  • A.ii Life of St Modwenna
• Domitian
  • A.viii: Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle F)
  • A.ix fragment of the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (ASC H), futhorc row
• Faustina
  • A.x Additional Glosses to the Glossary in Ælfric's Grammar
• Galba
  • A.xviii Athelstan Psalter
• Julius
  • A.x Old English Martyrology
  • E.vii Ælfric's Lives of Saints
• Nero
  • A.x Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • D.iv Lindisfarne Gospels
• Otho
  • A.xii The Battle of Maldon (destroyed in 1731)
  • B.x Mary of Egypt (fragmentary)
  • B.x.165 Anglo-Saxon rune poem (destroyed in 1731)
  • B.xi.2 fragment of the Parker Chronicle (the Winchester Chronicle)
  • C.i Ælfric's De creatore et creatura
  • C.v Otho-Corpus Gospels (fragmentary)
• Tiberius
  • A.vi Abingdon Chronicle I (ASC B)
  • A.xiii Hemming's Cartulary
  • B.i Abingdon Chronicle II (ASC C)
  • B.iv Worcester Chronicle (ASC D)
  • B.v Labour of the Months
  • C.ii Bede, Ecclesiastical History
• Titus
  • D.xxvi Ælfwine's Prayerbook
• Vespasian
  • A.i Vespasian Psalter
  • D.xiv Ælfric's De duodecim abusivis
• Vitellius
  • A.xv Nowell Codex (Beowulf, Judith)