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1. Cotton MS Caligula D V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula D V
Title:
Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
Title:
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1r: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum; f. 53v: blank; ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 54–106, ii-iii

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 54–106, ii-iii
Title:
Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the unique copy of the Anglo-Norman Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI

4. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

5. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v
Title:
Ancrene Riwle, with added poems and prayers
Scope & Content:
Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) in Middle English (ff. 4r–199r: Boffey 734.5, 1820, 1917, 2285, 3568): this is one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of the text. Added in the 2nd half of the 13th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (ff. 9v lower margin, 57v, 199r–202v): Prayers in Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

202 folios, bound together in a single volume with f. 1 of this manuscript.

6. Cotton MS Cleopatra D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra D VII
Title:
John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; Des grantz geanz; Brut Chronicle (Short Version); Lamentation of Our Lady; four minor works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works in Latin, Middle English and Anglo-Norman French. The core of the manuscript (ff. 80-189) dates to the middle of the 14th century, with subsequent additions up to the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. The contents include the Historia Trium Regum, a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII
Title:
Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises four separate manuscripts, made at various times and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631). (1) ff. 2–36: a collection of treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects, made in England in the 4th quarter of the 15th century. (2) ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 15th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157
Title:
Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
These folios (ff. i, 1-157) contain a cartulary of Peterborough abbey, written in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. It was apparently compiled for the sacrist George Fraunceys (fl. c. 1393-1407) at the beginning of the 15th century, with later additions (Briston and Halliday, Pilsgate (2009), p. xi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

9. Cotton MS Faustina C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina C I
Title:
Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750; The Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three independent parts that were joined together in the 17th century, The first part (ff. 2r-65r) contains a late 14th-century cartulary of Huntingdon Priory, featuring texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. The second part (ff. 66r-93v), written at the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Cotton MS Julius A VII, ff 66–81

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VII, ff 66–81
Title:
Verse miscellany, including ‘Uos qui sub Christo mundo certatis in isto’ (f. 66r–v: Walther 20826); (?)Philippe de Thaon, De conflictu corporis et anime (ff. 72v–77r: Dean 692); theological miscellany (ff. 79v–81r): 1st quarter of the 13th century; Latin (ff. 66r–72r, 77r–81v); Anglo-Norman French (ff. 72v–77r); origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item