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1. Cotton MS Appendix L

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Cotton MS Appendix L
Title:
State Papers, 1513-1637
Scope & Content:
This volume, primarily of original douments, includes correspondence in the hands of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/71-1530), Thomas Cromwell (d. 1540), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/1521-1598); letters from Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532-1590) relating to the Babington conspiracy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1513-1637
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Appendix LI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LI
Title:
Computus
Scope & Content:
An Irish version of John de Pulcro Rivo's Computus manualis, with additional computistical material in Latin. For a detailed description and translation of the Irish material, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 285-327. The manuscript was badly damaged in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

3. Cotton MS Augustus II 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 29
Title:
Grant of Hodilredus (Æthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons (fl. 685×706), to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess
Scope & Content:
Hodilredus (Æthelred or Œthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons, grants 40 hides (manentes) at Ricingahaam, Budinhaam, Dagenham, Angenlabeshaam and Widmundes felt (Wyfields in Great Ilford), all probably in Essex, to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess, for her minster called Beddanhaam (B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

4. Cotton MS Augustus III/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus III/1
Title:
A collection of drawings, maps and diagrams from the reign of Henry VIII; prints belonging to or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellaneous collection of drawings of armies, men-at-arms and landscapes, maps, and what are thought to be the original designs for King Henry VIII’s tents for the Field of Cloth of Gold. The second volume is now bound as Cotton MS Augustus III/2. Cotton MS Augustus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1577
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Augustus III/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus III/2
Title:
A collection of prints from or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second and larger part of a collection of engravings and woodcuts of ancient Roman architecture and art as it was found in 16th-century Rome (the first part is found in Cotton MS Augustus III/1). The collection features prints by Dutch, French, German and Italian art...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1515-c 1602
Extent:
1 volume

6. Cotton MS Augustus V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus V
Title:
Le Trésor des Histoires or Le Trésor de Sapience
Scope & Content:
Le Trésor des Histoires or Trésor de Sapience is an anonymous historical compilation in prose from Creation to the pontificate of Clement VI. The version of the Trésor in the manuscript is rare and has a Parisian origin. The only other copy of this version of the text is contained in Paris, BnF,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex.

7. Cotton MS Caligula B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula B IV
Title:
Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1567
Extent:
1 volume

8. Cotton MS Caligula B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula B VIII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r–414v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, from the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including The Act for furthering of Iustice in criminall causes, 9 November 1588 (Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 158), STC 21887.5, ff. 38r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Cotton MS Caligula C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C II
Title:
Records and papers (primarily originals) concerning England and Scotland, 1569–1572.
Scope & Content:
This volume is a rich source of materials for Anglo-Scottish relations and the issue of Mary, Queen of Scots in English and Scottish politics between 1570 and 1572 (there is one document, and possibly another, from 1569). It includes original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (r: 1542–1567;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1570-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume.

10. Cotton MS Caligula C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C IV
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–330v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575. Includes the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587); the instructions issued by Sir William Drury (d. 1579), High Marshal of Berwick and General of Her Majesty’s Force...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and French
Date Range:
1573-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume