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2. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Tiberius B VIII
- Scope & Content:
- The Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France (r. 1364–1380) (ff. 35-80), formerly bound with a 12th-century pontifical (ff. 3-34, 81-197), now separate volumes
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1365-1380
- Extent:
-
2 items, formerly bound together
3. Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 3r–200r: A volume of records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579, including the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots, and drawings by John Dunstall (ff. 73r–75r), including 'Certaine Emblemes upon a clock of the Q. of Scots' (f. 74r). ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1575-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2r–330v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575. Includes the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587); the instructions issued by Sir William Drury (d. 1579), High Marshal of Berwick and General of Her Majesty’s Force...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, and French
- Date Range:
- 1573-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Cotton MS Galba C I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Galba C I
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1558-1564
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Cotton MS Augustus V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus V
- Title:
- Le Trésor des Histoires or Le Trésor de Sapience
- Scope & Content:
- Le Trésor des Histoires or Trésor de Sapience is an anonymous historical compilation in prose from Creation to the pontificate of Clement VI. The version of the Trésor in the manuscript is rare and has a Parisian origin. The only other copy of this version of the text is contained in Paris, BnF,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex.
7. Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
- Title:
- (1) Old English adaptations of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia and other texts (known as the 'Southwick Codex'); (2) Beowulf, The Marvels of the East, Judith, and other texts in Old English (known as the 'Nowell Codex')
- Scope & Content:
- This volume, containing the unique medieval copy of Beowulf and other important texts in Old English, comprises two manuscripts of different origin and date, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The so-called 'Southwick Codex' (ff. 4–93), named after its medieval home, was ma...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 990s-2nd half of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
8. Cotton MS Nero D II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D II
- Title:
- Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle of Battle Abbey, miscellaneous historical and heraldic texts, Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones, Jean Froissart, Chroniques.
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: f. 1v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 2r–214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory to 1377; ff 215r–216v: Annalistic chronicle to1089 (imperfect); ff. 217r–v: List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, imperfect f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c.1100-c.1650
- Extent:
- Parchment codex, composite, containing 11 items
9. Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
- Title:
- Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1405-c 1430
- Extent:
-
288 folios.
10. Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Title:
- Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
- Scope & Content:
- Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume