De heredibus Scocie (3r–v); conventions between William I, king of Scots (1165–1214), and Kings Henry II (1154–1189) and Richard I (1189–1199) of England (3v–5r); Award of Norham, 1291 (5r–v); Tres filii Noe diuiserunt orbem (6r); De filiis Woden regis (6r); note on Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (6v); chronicle of early British history (7r–10v); chronicle of English history, AD 854–1327 (10v–13r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (3r, 5r–v); Latin (3r–5r, 6r–13r)
Denis Piramus, La vie seint Edmund le rey (3r–26v: Dean 520, imperfect); Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, La vie seint Thomas de Canterbery (27r–45v: Dean 508, imperfect); Life of Christ (45v–82r: Dean 484); Herman de Valenciennes, Roman de Dieu et de sa mere (La assumpcione nostre dame seinte Marie) (82v–88v: Dean 485); Le petit sermon (Le euangel translate de latin en franceys) (89r–93r: Dean 636); Nicholas Bozon, La vie seinte Lucie virgine (93r–94r: Dean 582); Nicholas Bozon, La vie la Mar...
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
Treatise on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) (2r–15r); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (15v–22r); treatise on the offices of marshal and constable (23r–32r); muster of King Richard II’s expedition to Scotland, 1385 (32r–33r: Dean 61); account of the Scottish expedition of King Edward I of England (1272–1307), 1296 (33r–35r: Dean 59)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (2r–22r); Latin and Anglo-Norman French (23r–32r); Anglo-Norman French (32r–35r)
Treatise on heraldry (229r–235v); statutes of the Order of the Garter (236r–243r); treatise on the Order of the Bath (243r–247r); table of contents (247v–248r); (?)carol for victory in France, 1492 (248v: Boffey 306.8)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French; Latin (247v–248r); Middle English (248v) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century; last quarter of the 16th century or 1st quarter of the 17th century (247v–248r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
