London, British Library, Cotton Galba A XIV

Images: British Library

Other shelf marks: none

Physical description: parchment, 150 × 110 mm, i+154 fols., 1 col.; some folios reversed and out of order

Language: Latin and Old English

Date: 11th cent. (second quarter)

Provenance: Leominster (?)

Contents:

Epistles of Christ and Abgar (fols. 27v–28v)

Additional contents: collection of prayers, poems, and various fragments.

Catalogs and studies:

Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 (no. 333).

Hartzell, K. D. Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music. Woodbridge: Boydell , 2006 (no. 135).

Ker, Neil R. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957 (no. 157).

Muir, Bernard James. A Pre-Conquest English Prayer-Book (BL MSS Cotton Galba A.xiv and Nero A.ii (ff. 3–13)). Henry Bradshaw Society 103. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1988.

Other online databases: Biblissima; Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 21 May 2026.