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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIII, f iv
Title:: Fragment of The Book of Common Prayer of (?)Elizabeth I (printed book)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1580s]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 3–27
Title:: James Brooks, bishop of Gloucester (1554–1559), An Exhortacyon to Cranmer
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 28–45
Title:: Diary of the reigns of Kings Henry VII (1485–1509) and Henry VIII (1509–1547) of England, AD 1501–1545 (28r–37r); prophecies (37v–39r); poems (39v–40v); A trew & a perfecte discourse of woonderfull & straunge myracles & sygnes which apperyd in ffrance, 5 May 1573 (41r–42v); A sermon of Parson Hyberdyne (43r–v); A contraversy betwyx Master Stavely & Master Rainad (44r–45v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): English; Latin (37r, 42v) Dated: 2nd quarter of the 16th century (28r–37r); 2nd half of the 16th century (37v–45v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179
Title:: Tudor songs and ballads (127r–163v, 178r–179v); sermon preached by John Stubs, Gloucester, 1558 (164r–170r); John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre (172r–177v: Boffey 2590)
Scope & Content:: Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Christmas and other Carols, without music; Paper, 16th cent. A song which appears to begin with the words, 'God ys the cheffest vnizon'; ascribed in a note at the end to Sir Peter Harfurth (called Hartforth on f. 153), 'c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B IV
Title:: Johannes Opicii (Opicius), Poems in commemoration of King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) (3r–24r); list of manuscripts in the privy closet at Whitehall (25r)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; English (25r) Dated: last quarter of the 15th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (25r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XV
Title:: Excerpts from English records, transcribed primarily by John Joscelyn (d. 1603), including: records in the Tower of London (3r–v); notes on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) ‘ex libro Garterii Rege armorum’ (4r–v); register of Eynsham Abbey (6r–18v); Evesham Chronicle (19r–22r); register of Westminster Abbey (23r–25v); ‘ex veteri libro ciuitatis Londoniensis’ (26r–27r); registers of the bishops of London (28r–40r); register of St Paul’s Cathedral, London (42v–43r); regi...
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Old English (7r–8r); English (78r, 79r, 85v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian C I
Title:: Correspondence concerning England and Spain, 1511-1520
Scope & Content:: Papers concerning England and Spain between 1511 and 1520. Correspondents include Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland, Thomas Wolsey (1470/71–1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal, Ferdinand II (1452-1516), King of Aragon, and Charles V (1500-1558), Holy Roman E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1511-1520
Extent:: 1 volume

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