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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 Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

3. Cotton MS Julius F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius F VII
Title:
Commonplace-book of William Worcester (d. 1480 × 1485), including a contents-table of Chrétien le Gowayz de Saint-Maure (attributed), Methamorphoseos (6r–13v); Sedulius, Paschale carmen (22r–23r: excerpts); Ralph Marham, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (65r–v: excerpts); John Argentine, Actus publice habitus in academia Cantabrigiensi (165r–166v); John Gower, Verses in praise of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) (167r); and John Somerset, Querimonia de ingratitud...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman French; Hebrew (f. 121r–v); Greek (f. 123).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. Cotton MS Nero C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Nero C III
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
14 items

6. Cotton MS Nero C III 213

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III 213
Title:
Charter
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Hebrew
Date Range:
1268
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 186–201

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 186–201
Title:
Collection of original documents, including items relating to Battle Abbey (ff. 186–187, 189), Holy Trinity Priory, London (ff. 187, 194), Lewes Priory (ff. 188, 190), Bordesley Abbey (f. 188), Southwark Priory (ff. 188, 196–198, 200–201), Dore Abbey (f. 193), Pershore Abbey (f. 197) and Stratford Langthorne Abbey (f. 201)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (f. 192); Hebrew (ff. 194–195)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 213–218

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 213–218
Title:
Collection of original documents, including items relating to Lewes Priory (ff. 214, 217) and Poulton Abbey (f. 215)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French and Hebrew (f. 213); Latin (ff. 214–218)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Cotton MS Titus B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus B VIII
Title:
Miscellaneous papers, AD 729–1618 (originals and copies), including the instructions given by Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603) to Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke (d. 1601), Lord President of the council in the Marches of Wales, 1586 (1r–49v); a narrative of English naval expeditions, 1588–1603 (96r–156v: imperfect); Sir Walter Raleigh, Journal of his second voyage to Guiana, 1617–1618 (162r–175v); Richard Madox, Journal of a voyage to discover a passage to Cathay, 1582 (180r–221r)...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English, French, Latin, and cipher; (?)the dialect of Coast Miwok Indians (191r); Javanese (191v); Middle English (323r–324r); Latin, English, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, Italian and French (f. 351) Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 373. 1. Instructions given by Q. El...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Coast Miwok, Dutch, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Javanese, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Cotton MS Titus D XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVIII
Title:
The Katherine Group of Middle English texts; an Abecedarium and other verses; lists of Archbishops
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three parts, bound together: ff. 1-12: An Abecedarium in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; a verse prophecy of the Sibille, verses on the zones of the Earth, the seasons and related topics in Latin; a Greek litany (2nd half of the 14th century); ff. 14-147: The Katherine Gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1550
Extent:

A parchment codex

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