These 35 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Tiberius E VII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Now bound in two volumes, the manuscript contains a number of religious texts written in Middle English, inc...
These 29 fragments formally belonged to a number of unidentified manuscripts from the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: Fragment 1: Language: Unidentified. Script: Gothic. Fragment 2: Language: Latin. Scr...
Miscellaneous fragments from the Cotton collection, including an itinerary of England and the apparition of a certain Cecilia, and notes by Sir Frederic Madden and Colin Tite
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A collection of fifteeen bundles containing items from the Cotton collection, many of them damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Formerly housed with a collection of burnt parchment fragments, now classified as Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1–XXXII/9, and sometimes referred to as the 'Cotton...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1495–1585
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Volume I: ff. 1r–202v; Volume II: ff. 203r–398r. Two volumes of letters and papers concerning Germany and Belgium, for the years 1490 to 1583. ff. 2r–4r: Latin extracts from treaties of commerce between England and the Low Countries, from 1496 to 1564. ff. 5r–10r: A rough draft in Latin of a...
Verses on the kings of England to Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (2r–v: Boffey 3632); De tribus regibus Coloniensibus (3r–28v); Brut chronicle to King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (29r–148r), including a song of victory over the Scots, 1296 (83r: Boffey 3558.5), a song after the battle of Bannockburn, 1314 (88r: Boffey 2039.3), and John Page, Siege of Rouen (140r–143v: Boffey 979)
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Languages: Middle English (2r–v, 29r–148r); Latin (3r–28v)