Showing posts with label British Library: Cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Library: Cotton. Show all posts

Friday, 13 October 2017

Calendar, tables, Hymnal and Canticles (BL Cotton MS Julius A VI)

Ploughing, f. 3r.

Colloquial name(s): none, it contains a calendar, computistical texts and tables, a Hymnal and Canticles
Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Julius A VI

Date: predominantly between the 1st half and the middle of the 11th Century (source)
Origin: possibly Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Monday, 9 October 2017

The Tiberius Psalter (BL Cotton MS Tiberius C VI)

Goliath, with Philistines fleeing behind him, f. 9r.


Colloquial name(s): the Tiberius Psalter
Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C VI

Date: between the 3rd quarter of 11th Century and the 2nd half of the 12th Century (source)
Origin: possibly Old Minster, Winchester, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts


Monday, 10 April 2017

The Coronation Book of Charles V (BL Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2)

The Duke of Bourbon (the Grand Chamberlain) vests the King with the royal shoes, f. 48r.

Colloquial name(s): the Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France
Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2

Date: 1365-80 (source)
Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Friday, 6 January 2017

The Beowulf Manuscript (BL Cotton MS Vitellius A XV)

Two men talking with a lertix between them (fire damaged), f. 102r.

Colloquial name(s): The Beowulf Manuscript
Official name(s): British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Date: various, from 4th quarter of 10th C to 2nd half 16th C (source)
Origin: various, all England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts