• manuscript of Beowulf is designated Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv, and the manuscript of Pearl is Cotton MS Nero A.x. "Cotton manuscripts". British Library. Archived...
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    Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, one of the four major Old English poetic manuscripts. It is...
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    designation is "British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.XV" because it was one of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton library in the middle of the...
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    Psalter Cotton Otho C.i Ælfric's De creatore et creatura Cotton Vitellius A.xv Beowulf, Judith Cotton Vespasian D.xiv Ælfric's De duodecim abusivis Cotton Titus...
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    manuscripts from the Cotton library are "Cotton Vitellius A.xv" and "Cotton Nero A.x". In Cotton's own day, that meant "Under the bust of Vitellius, top shelf (A)...
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    arrived at [...] and made camp." In the British Library manuscript Cotton Vitellius A. xv, the Old English poem Beowulf contains the following lacuna:...
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    Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610 (London, 1857), p. 35, and BL Cotton Vitellius C/XI f.374. Dakota L. Hamilton, "The Learned Councils of the Tudor...
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    written in Old English, of The Life of St Pantaleon (British Library, MS Cotton Vitellius D XVII), dating from the early eleventh century, possibly written for...
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  • Vitellius D: A third OE version was in the Cotton library's Vitellius D. xvii. Unfortunately this volume was destroyed in the fire of 1731. Vitellius...
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    First page of Beowulf in Cotton Vitellius A. xv...
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    Ancrene Wisse (category Cotton Library)
    Ancrene Riwle: Edited from Merton College MS 44 and British Museum MS Cotton Vitellius E.vii, Early English Text Society 216, Oxford University Press Dobson...
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    Apuleii Platonici) and were incorporated into the Anglo-Saxon codex Cotton Vitellius C.III. These early Greek and Roman compilations became the backbone...
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  • it came to be in Vercelli. The Beowulf Manuscript (British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv), sometimes called the Nowell Codex, contains prose and poetry...
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  • Cotton Vitellius MS A XV; Nowell Codex (Beowulf manuscript), 10th century Cotton Vitellius MS A XIX; Bede, Lives of St. Cuthbert Cotton Vitellius MS C III;...
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    contained the Old English rune poem before being destroyed in a fire Cotton Vitellius A.XII — lists runes in alphabetical order MS Oxford St. John's College...
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    English, surviving now in four manuscripts: London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C III (illustrated) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 76 London...
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    manuscript (also known as the Nowell Codex, London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv). It is written in Late West Saxon in a Mercian dialect. Other...
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    Michael Lapidge suggests that the Laudes Regiae, which are included in Cotton Vitellius E xii, might have been composed by Ealdred, or a member of his household...
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    on folio 16v in the mid-eleventh-century psalter British Library, Cotton Vitellius E.xviii, made in Winchester, within a short text on secret codes, found...
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  • "An Edition of the Old English Homilies in the British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius C.v". 3 volumes. Diss. Edinburgh University, 1952. Thorpe, Benjamin...
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    The manuscript is bound in what is still known as the Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A. xv). He also studied the Exeter Book, annotating folios 9r and 10r...
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    (2000). "The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius CIII". Medical History. 44 (3): 433–434. doi:10.1017/S0025727300066989...
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    Archived 2006-09-15 at the Wayback Machine lines 59-63 The manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A. xv, the Nowell Codex) reads hyrde ic þ elan cwen. hyrde ic means...
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  • Pilkington. Anglo-Saxon times: The earliest pharmacopoeia in English (Cotton Vitellius, MS C. iii). 1628: First correct description of circulation of the...
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    A thirteenth-century illumination of Edward I on folio 6v of British Library Cotton Vitellius A XIII....
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  • published a copy made by G. Nicolson from London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xx, a 12th-century manuscript, which was lost in a 1731 house fire...
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    text are in British Library, Additional MS 20811, British Library, Cotton. Vitellius F. xvi (partly burnt, extends to 1199 only), British Library, Royal...
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    title in the unique manuscript in which it survives (British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, which was copied round the year 1000 AD), but modern scholars...
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    LONDON. p. 29. Anderson (1922) p. 566; Munch; Goss (1874) pp. 102–103; Cotton MS Julius A VII (n.d.). Woolf (2007) p. 78; Anderson (1922) pp. 566–567;...
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    17) - ca. 1430–1440. MS. Cambridge Ff. 5, 48 - mid 15th century. MS. Cotton Vitellius E. x., - late 15th century. MS. Landsowne 762 - ca. 1524–30 MS. Sloane...
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