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141. 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

142. 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

143. Cotton MS Faustina B IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B IX
Title:
Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1174-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

144. Cotton MS Julius F II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius F II
Title:
Middle English translations of the Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden and Alfonso Fernández Pecha, Epistola solitarii ad reges
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint, Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). The other full-text copy survives in Cotton MS Claudius B I. Also pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

145. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

146. 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

147. Cotton MS Nero A X/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A X/2
Title:
Four anonymous poems in Middle English: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, consecutively numbered, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Biblio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1375-1424
Extent:

Parchment codex

148. Cotton MS Vitellius C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C I
Title:
Papers relating to Wales and the Welsh Marches, 1461-1625
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Cottonian title page. ff. 2r-6v: Blank. f. 7r-7v: Ordinances by John Alcock, Bishop of Worcester, Anthony Widevile, and E. Rivers. For the government of Shrewsbury. April 10 1478. ff. 8r-13v: Blank. ff. 14r-15r: Remembrances proposed by the commissioners. Concerning things to be execu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1461-1625
Extent:
1 volume

149. Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, f 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, f 204
Title:
Medieval endleaf
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
[15th century]
Extent:
1 item

150. Cotton MS Titus D XIX, ff 120-169

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XIX, ff 120-169
Title:
John Wyclif, Meditations
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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