Manuscript: BL Cotton Otho A.xiii, pt. i

Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)

Fragments from a collection of Saints' lives and visions, including Vita S. Fursei; Visio Baronti (BHL 997); Visio Wettini by Heito : s. xi1 or xi in.

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British Library

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London

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Cotton Otho A.xiii

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G. 351

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Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 351)

Fragments from a collection of Saints' lives and visions, including Vita S. Fursei; Visio Baronti (BHL 997); Visio Wettini by Heito : s. xi1 or xi in.

Gneuss, Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Part i of this badly burnt manuscript consists of fols. 1–93 (originally fols. 1–150), containing the lives and passions of the following saints, as well as three visions, in more or less incomplete or fragmentary form: Eustachius (BHL 2760); Marcus Evangelista (BHL 5276); Cassianus of Imola (BHL 1626); Cornelius (BHL 1958); Ferreolus of Vienne (BHL 2912); Saturninus of Toulouse (BHL 7495–6); Thecla (BHL 8020d); Fausta, Evilasius and Eusebius (BHL 2833); Furseus (BHL 3210); Visio Baronti (BHL 997); Visio Rothearii (?); Visio Wettini by Heito of Reichenau. For the saints’ lives, see the individual entries in E. Gordon Whatley, ‘Acta Sanctorum’, SASLC I; for the contents of fols. 1–216 of the original manuscript, see Thomas Smith, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library 1696, ed. Colin G. C. Tite (Cambridge, 1984), p. 67.