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1. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

2. Cotton MS Nero B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B VIII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Russia, Greece, Turkey, Venice and Morocco, temp. Henry VI (1422–1461, 1470–1471) to temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including letters of Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia (1547–1584), Feodor I, Tsar of Russia (1584–1598), and Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah, sultan of Morocco (1557–1574), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598); letter of Germanus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1537–1579), addressed to King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547), ...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English, German, Russian, Greek (ff. 44–45), Arabic (ff. 46, 49, 61–62, 67, 70), Italian and Spanish Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 68. 1. The czar Iwan IV. Vassiliewitch, to Q. Elizabeth; desiring her to permit some of his merchants to purchase several article...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Cotton MS Nero B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B XI
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Turkey, Abyssinia, Constantinople, Morocco and Russia, temp. Edward II (1307–1327) to 1620, including Relazione della presa della fortezza, e porto di Seleucia, detta Agliman, in Caramania (Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1613 (ff. 256–261: printed text)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 402. 1. A circumstantial account of the person, family, court, forces, revenues, dominions, &c. of Mahomet III. Ottoman emperor, 1595-1603. 1. 2. A dissertation tending to prove that christian princes wrong themselves and their honour, when they h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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