London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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  • British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
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  • Latin
Title
  • A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim , Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem , Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
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Description
  • This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together.Contents:ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of St John, copied in the mid-10th century. f. 174v: A charter of William II, duke of Normandy (1035-1087), (later King William I of England, 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century. ff. 175r-180v: A fragment of Junillus Africanus's Instituta regularia divine legis copied in the late 7th or early 8th century, possibly in the south of England. ff. 181r-194v: Part of a collection of writings by the hermit Richard Rolle, along with an office and vita for him. Decoration:See separate parts.
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    • England, Canterbury
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    • Glastonbury, England
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    • England (Salisbury?)
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    • England, probably Durham
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