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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Cleopatra F VII
Title:: Collections relating to the precedence of England, France and Spain, including Robert Wingfield, Nobilissima disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici, habita ab utriusque oratoribus et legatis in concilio Constantiensi (Louvain: Theodoricus Martinus, 1517) (ff. 43-68: printed text), and Iacob Valdesio, De dignitate regum regnorumque Hispaniae, et honoratiori loco eis, seu eorum legatis a conciliis, ac Romana sede iure debito (Granada: Ferdinand Diaz a Montoya,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 15th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A IX
Title:: Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect); Runic alphabet; extracts from the Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum; Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beate Hildegardis; (?)John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, with commentary by John Ergome; Verse account of those who...
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript composed of fragments bound together in the early modern period. These include: f. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; f. 2r: blank, apart from the inscriptions 'Mitte nob. hist. bede de gestis anglor[um]' (in a 12th-century hand) and 'Bind this... and put 4 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 8th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 84–85
Title:: Verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross; memorandum on King Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–1470, 1471–1483); names of the lordships held by the duke of York.
Scope & Content:: This folios, copied in the 2nd half of the 15th century, contain a verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross in Latin (ff. 84r–v), a memorandum on King Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–1470, 1471–1483) in Latin (f. 85r), and the names of the lordships held by the duke of York in Mid...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
Title:: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect); Quadripartitus (imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii), Coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect); List of Welsh cantrefi, Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Angl...
Scope & Content:: This codex contains: f. 1*: an early modern list of contents; between f. 1* and f. 2r there are two blank folios; ff. 2r-15v: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu, letter of Pope Paschal II, Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate, followed by two blank ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, English, Old, English., and Welsh
Date Range:: 4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 162r–174v
Title:: Scutum Dei triangulum (162r); abecedarium (162v–168v); calendar (169r–174v)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain: f. 162r: diagrams of the Scutum Dei triangulum in Latin and Middle English; ff. 162v-168v: an abecedarium in Latin and Middle English; ff. 169r-174v: a calendar. Decoration: initials, diagrams, lines, and rubrics in red throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 229–249
Title:: 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
Extent:: 1 item

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