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411. Cotton MS Claudius A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A V
Title:
Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368; William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Aldhelmi Episcopi; genealogy of King Henry II of England; Vita Sancti Erkenwaldi Episcopi; Vita Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Miracula Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Vita Sancti Neoti Abbatis; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Wulfstani Episcopi
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript of three parts. The first part, ff. 2r-45r, is a copy of the Peterborough Chronicle, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century with a continuation added in the 17th century. The second part, ff. 46r-134r, includes William of Malmesbury's (b. c. 1080, d. 1143) Gest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

412. Cotton MS Augustus I i 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus I i 19
Title:
Plan of the town of Dover and its proposed new harbour, perhaps drawn by Vincenzo Volpe (Vincent Wolff)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

413. Cotton MS Augustus II 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 1
Title:
William Vertue (?), Design for a proposed funerary monument for King Henry VI of England (r. 1422–1461, 1470–1471) at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:
Design in pen and grey-brown washes for a monument proposed for the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey constructed by King Henry VII, linked to an effort to canonize Henry VI. The shrine was never built: a tomb for Henry VII and his queen was instead erected on the site. Inscribed in a 17th-centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1510-1515
Extent:

Parchment leaf

414. Cotton MS Claudius C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius C IV
Title:
Extracts from the Red Book of the Exchequer (London, The National Archives, E 164/2) and other records, including excerpts from the Strata Florida Chronicle (248r–258v) and the Neath Chronicle (259r–v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; French (244r–v, 246r–v); English (267r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

415. Cotton MS Augustus I ii 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus I ii 39
Title:
Drawing of the assault upon Enniskillen Castle, 17 February 1593/4, drawn by John Thomas
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 item

416. Cotton MS Nero B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B XI
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Turkey, Abyssinia, Constantinople, Morocco and Russia, temp. Edward II (1307–1327) to 1620, including Relazione della presa della fortezza, e porto di Seleucia, detta Agliman, in Caramania (Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1613 (ff. 256–261: printed text)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 402. 1. A circumstantial account of the person, family, court, forces, revenues, dominions, &c. of Mahomet III. Ottoman emperor, 1595-1603. 1. 2. A dissertation tending to prove that christian princes wrong themselves and their honour, when they h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

417. Cotton MS Galba B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Flanders, 1341–1473 (original documents); draft certificate of the coat of arms of Robert Hampson of London, 10 October 1602 (ff. 209–210); notes on English embassies to Flanders, 1402–1405 (ff. 214–215)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): French, Latin and English; English (ff. 209–210, 214–215) This manuscript was formerly marked Vespasian F. XI. but this evidently is its proper place. The articles are here numbered, and not the pages. Codex chartaceus, in folio, schedis constans 167. 1. "La credence donn&ecu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

418. Cotton MS Nero B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B VIII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Russia, Greece, Turkey, Venice and Morocco, temp. Henry VI (1422–1461, 1470–1471) to temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including letters of Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia (1547–1584), Feodor I, Tsar of Russia (1584–1598), and Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah, sultan of Morocco (1557–1574), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598); letter of Germanus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1537–1579), addressed to King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547), ...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English, German, Russian, Greek (ff. 44–45), Arabic (ff. 46, 49, 61–62, 67, 70), Italian and Spanish Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 68. 1. The czar Iwan IV. Vassiliewitch, to Q. Elizabeth; desiring her to permit some of his merchants to purchase several article...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

419. Cotton MS Vespasian C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C X
Title:
Sir Charles Cornwallis, Discourse of the State of Spayne, 1607 (1r–35r); correspondence of Sir Charles Cornwallis, English ambassador to Spain (1605–1609; d. 1629), March 1607–April 1608, November 1614 (35r–180v, 189r–233r, 235v–348r); Sir Charles Cornwallis, A discourse to prove that a coniunction by allyance of England and Spayne is the most honorable and proffitablest course, 1607 (180v–189r); letter of King James I of England (1603–1625) on English grievances in Spain (233r–235v)
Scope & Content:
Codex chart. in fol. folior. 348. {See note to the preceding no.} An Official Copy Book. 1. A discourse of the state of Spain, written by sir Ch. Cornwallis, ambassador at that court, about the beginning of the year 1607. 1.2. A series of letters from and to sir Ch. Cornwallis. 1607. 35. {1.}...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

420. Cotton MS Nero C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C X
Title:
Papers of King Edward VI
Scope & Content:
ff. 2–4: Correspondence relating to Prince Edward of England (the future King Edward VI). ff. 5–9: Letters of Prince Edward of England (ff. 5, 7–9 in Latin). ff. 10–83: Diary of Edward VI, king of England (1547–1553). ff. 84–117: Miscellaneous documents relating to the reign of Edward VI (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1537-1553
Extent:

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