London, British Library Cotton Vitellius C. viii ff. 85-90 with 76. Cambridge, Trinity College B.10.5 Composite manuscript of nine parts including: A-S Computus, ff. 22-25 (K.er 221); A-S Patristic extracts, ff. 85-90 (Ker 83); Kent Domesday, ff. 143-156

Abstract

255. London, British Library Cotton Vitellius C. viii

ff. 85-90 with 76. Cambridge, Trinity College B.10.5

Composite manuscript of nine parts including: A-S Computus,

ff. 22-25 (K.er 221); A-S Patristic extracts, ff. 85-90 (Ker 83);

Kent Domesday, ff. 143-156

[K.er 83/221; Gneuss 173/404]

HISTORY: A compilation of nine separate unrelated items, ranging from the Sc to 14c, two of A-S date. The 212 leaves, damaged in the fire of 1731, were separately remounted in 19c paper frames on which the official foliation (187 5) is written. Ker, Cat., p. 292, dates the A-S ff 22-25 to "s. xi 1 ," noting its close relation, perhaps as exemplar, to Cotton Vitellius E. xviii [258), probably a Winchester book of the mid-1 lc. Part 1 (ff 4-21) has been abstracted from a 12c Orosius/Dares Phrygius manuscript that once belonged to Rievaulx, Royal 6 C.viii (Warner and Gilson 1921:1.146). The ensemble belonged to Cotton in 1621, as mentioned in Cotton's record of loans, Harley 6018, no. '169'. The table of contents on f. 2r, showing essentially the contents of the present manuscript, is in the hand of Richard James, Cotton's librarian ca. 1625-1638 (see Tite 1994: fig. 25). The leaves from the Trinity manuscript (ff 85-90) are of the Sc and were abstracted sometime before the early