A collection of prints from or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
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This manuscript contains the second and larger part of a collection of engravings and woodcuts of ancient Roman architecture and art as it was found in 16th-century Rome (the first part is found in Cotton MS Augustus III/1). The collection features prints by Dutch, French, German and Italian art...
Collections relating to the Church in England, volume 3, including a confirmation of the union of the Greek and Latin churches as declared at the Council of Florence, 5 July 1439 (ff. 80–81)
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Language(s): English and Latin; Latin and Greek (ff. 80–81) Codex chartaceus, in folio, membranis quamplurimis insertis, constans foliis 178. "The state of the Church of Great Britain, &c. THE THIRD VOLUME:" Beginning with the reign of K. Henry VI. and ending with Henry VII. [some thing...
Miscellaneous fragments, many of them letters and plans, including maps of Romsey (bundle III(a)); Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis (bundle VII)
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Language(s): English, French and Italian; Greek (bundle VII) Dated: 16th century (bundles I–IV, ?VII); (?)14th century (bundle V); 2nd half of the 17th century (bundle VI); 17th century to 18th century (bundles VIII–IX)
Miscellaneous fragments from the Cotton collection, including an itinerary of England and the apparition of a certain Cecilia, and notes by Sir Frederic Madden and Colin Tite
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A collection of fifteeen bundles containing items from the Cotton collection, many of them damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Formerly housed with a collection of burnt parchment fragments, now classified as Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1–XXXII/9, and sometimes referred to as the 'Cotton...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Letters addressed to Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) by, among others, Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban (d. 1626) (ff. 10–11), Sir Thomas Bodley (d. 1613) (f. 25), William Camden (d. 1623) (ff. 58–65), John Dee (d. 1609) (ff. 135–136), Sir Edward Dering (d. 1644) (f. 143), John Donne (d. 1631) (ff. 153–154), William Laud, bishop of St Davids (1621–26) (the future archbishop of Canterbury, 1633–45) (f. 232), John Selden (d. 1654) (ff. 338–344), John Speed (d. 1629) (ff. 354–358) and James Ussher, ...
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Language(s): English and Latin; French (ff. 161, 288–291); Italian (ff. 174, 282); Greek (f. 353) Dated: 1595–1630; 19th century (415r–418r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin