Manuscript

British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV

Codicology

Produced: Southeast England, 1100-1125
Current Location: British Library, London, England, UK
Manuscript Type: Miscellany
Language: Latin
Folios: 146
Illustrated: No
Media: Parchment
Dimensions: Height: 19.5 cm Width: 13 cm
Sample page - British Library Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
Folio 1r

Description

Contains the Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (also known a De mirabilus mundi) by Gaius Julius Solinus on folio 1r-77v. Not illustrated.

Also contains Priscian, De Situ Orbis; Pseudo-Dares, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Pseudo-Jerome, De Mobilitate Mentis Humanae; Prophetia Sybillae; Pseudo-Ausonius, Sententiae Septem Sapientum; (?) Segardus junior of St Omer, De Miseria Hominis; Roger of Caen, De Contemptu Mundi (excerpt); Hildebert of Lavardin, De Mysterio Missae (excerpts); De Tribus Mortibus; Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum; Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; De Septem Miraculis Mundi; Latin verses (The Song of the Sybil).

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