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11. Add MS 36682 A-B

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CATALOGUE of the Cotton Manuscripts, of uncertain date but earlier than 1654, as appears from a marginal note of a book lent to " Mr Selden " (Vol. I. f. 78 b). The MSS. are arranged under their press-marks still in use, but the list is not quite complete, wanting descriptions of the press Augustus and of shelves Caligula B.-E., Vespasian E. and F., Titus F., Faustina C.-F., and several single MSS. In two cases (Jul. B. x, Vit. B. i) the MS. gives particulars of MSS. lost before Smith's cata...
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Cotton Library: Catalogues of,: temp. Chas. I. 1635. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet; of Conington: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Sir R. Cotton's MSS.: circ. 1635, temp. Chas.I. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1654
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2 items

12. Add MS 36789

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CATALOGUE of the manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Museum; drawn up (cf. ff. 156, 171) after his death (1631) and before 1638, and written in at least three different hands. Cotton's library was sealed up by an order of Council in Nov. 1629. After his death a petition for its ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1640
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 38683

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Add MS 38683
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TRANSCRIPT of a catalogue of Cotton Charters, copied in Apr. 1913 by the Rev. H. E. Salter. The original MS. (Bodl. 15695 = MS. Smith 90; see Madan, Cat. of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, iii, p. 471) was written circ. 1680-1700, immediately preceding Wanley's catalogue (Harley MS. 7647; another copy in the reference library of the Dept. of MSS.). The arrangement is under the presses distinguished by the busts of the twelve Caesars, as in Wanley, but the descriptions ar...
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Oxford; University of. Bodleian Library: Transcript of MS. Bodl. 15695 (Smith 90): 1913. Cotton Library: Catalogue of charters in,: late 17th -cent.: Copy 1913. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Transvript of catalogue of charters in the Cotton Library: late 17th cent, 1913.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1913
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 42724

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Add MS 42724
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ALFRED'S 'PASTORAL CARE'. A copy, in the hand of Edmund Gibson, afterwards Bishop of London, of the transcript made by Junius of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi, containing Alfred's Anglo-Saxon translation of Gregory's 'Pastoral Care'. Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi was virtually destroyed in successive fires in 1731 and 1865, and apart from a few charred fragments (all reproduced and transcribed in N. R. Ker, The Pastoral Care, Early English MSS. in Facsimile, vi, Copenhagen. 1956) knowledge of its te...
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Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Copy of transcript of AngloSaxon transl. of his Cura Pastoralis: circ. 1690. Oxford; University of. Bodleian Library: Copy, by E. Gibson, of Junius MS. 53: circ. 1690. Francis Junius, antiquary: Copy, by E. Gibson, of his transcript of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi: cir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 45102

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Add MS 45102
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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Song, 'If 'tis love to wish you near', composed by Ladislas Joseph Philip Paul Zavertal, 28 June 1885, with autograph title-page. The words are by Charles Dibdin (see The Professional Life of Mr Dibdin, 1803, i, pp. 112- 113). Supplementary to Add. MS. 43867. ff. 1-4. Presented by Henry George Farmer, Mus.D. B. Autograph papers of Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough (1891) and (1897) of London; n.d. As follows:-(1) Draft, with some correcti...
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includes: ff. 1-4 Ladislas Joseph Philip Paul Zavertal, composer; son of Václav Hugo Zavertal: Song, 'If 'tis love to wish you near': 1885.: Partly autogr.f. 5 Reverend Cuthbert Creighton, son of Mandell Creighton: Letter to H. I. Bell: 1937.ff. 6-12 Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterboro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1937
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 46911

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Add MS 46911
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SMITH'S CATALOGUE OF COTTON MSS 'Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ ... 'by Thomas Smith (Oxford, 1696). Printed. Inserted is the following material in the autograph of Humfrey Wanley (whose annotations also appear throughout the Catalogue passim), viz.:-(1) Report on the Cotton Library presented to the Trustees of the Library appointed under the Act 12 and 13 William III, cap. 7 [1701], by Matth[ew] Hutton, John Anstis and Humfrey Wanley, the three persons selected by...
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Humfrey Wanley, antiquary: Report on Cotton Library by (with M. Hutton and J. Anstis),: 1703.: Printed, with autogr. preface, catalogue of charters and other additions. Thomas Smith, d 1710 DD; nonjuror; Cottonian librarian: Catalogue of the Cotton Library: 1696.: Printed with MS. additions (by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1696-1703
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 70690

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Add MS 70690
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C. E. WRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Notes on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Sir Robert Cotton: his life and library; loans list of 1621 and identification of the owners of Cotton manuscripts. Dispersal of mediaeval libraries in the 16th century. Sir Edward Dering and his library; n.d. Sir Robert Bruce Cot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1982
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 70702

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Add MS 70702
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C. E. WRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. XXVI. List of Cotton Catalogues, rules for the Catalogue, negative photostats of and typescript notes on Planta's Report of 1785 on Cotton manuscripts. Subject analysis of the Cotton Collection. List of runic material and cryptographic material in the Cotton Collection ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 74237 TT

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Add MS 74237 TT
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TT. Letter from David Casley, Deputy-Keeper of the Cotton Library, to Richard Graves the elder, antiquary, giving brief details of the following Cotton MSS.: — Vitellius E. xvi, art. 2; Cleopatra D. iii, art. 6; Vespasian A. iv; Claudius A. viii, art. 19; Nero D. iii, art. 1; n.d. [between 1713 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1713-1729?]
Extent:
1 item

20. MS Facsimile Suppl II D

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MS Facsimile Suppl II D
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(d) Photographs, from originals in the Public Record Office (T. 1. 100), of a report, with three plans, by Sir Christopher Wren to the Lord High Treasurer, 15 Dec. 1706, relating to the purchase and equipment of Cotton House for library purposes. Sir Christopher Wren, architect: Report, with pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item