• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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