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41. Cotton MS Faustina F X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F X
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (fragments, including entries for the years 1573–1587, 1589–1592)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; English (250v, 252r, 254r–256r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII
Title:
Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, 1611
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments of five leaves from a journal recording an English account of a voyage to the East Indies in 1611, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. The names of ships mentioned in the journal include the 'Release', the 'Darling' and the 'Peppercorn',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

43. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

44. Cotton MS Titus A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XV
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume I)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

45. Cotton MS Titus A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVI
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141
Title:
Medical recipes copied by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
These folios contain medical notes and recipes copied by William Harvey (b. 1578, d. 1657), the physician who discovered the circulation of blood. Contents: ff. 139-141: Medical notes and recipes, copied by William Harvey. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

47. Cotton Roll I 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll I 11
Title:
Copy of a lease of Elizabeth I to John Wyngard of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster
Scope & Content:
m. 1-3: Copy of a lease from Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603) to John Wyngard, groom of the Wardrobe, of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster for a term of 30 years. Given at Westminster, 10 October 1588. m. 4: Notes on the later descent of the land down to 1614.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 roll

48. Cotton Roll III 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll III 5
Title:
List of English religious houses to be suppressed
Scope & Content:
A list of the English religious houses to be suppressed, recording 120 religious houses, organised by county, including those to whom the properties were to be granted. This was the official list of English religious houses to be dissolved following the first Suppression Act of March 1536 (27 He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536
Extent:
1 roll

49. Cotton Roll XIV 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIV 8
Title:
Year-long menu for Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
A year-long lunch and dinner menu for Princess Mary Tudor (later Mary I), daughter of Henry VIII, beginning with the dishes for Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Night, and then listing the menu for each day of the week and for fish days. The menu is divided into six columns. The first...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1531
Extent:
1 roll

50. EAP1256/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1256/1/6
Title:
Nkhani Za Dowa
Scope & Content:
Nkhani za Dowa is a newspaper that was published from 1951. The contect of the Newspaper was mainly in the local Nyaja language and its main purpose was to keep locals updated on events happening within Nyasaland and Dowa as a District. It carried alot of stories on local Governance and Agricult...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Chichewa, English, and Yao
Date Range:
1951-1962
Extent:
729

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