Bible with prologues, and Interpretations of Hebrew names, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 5:39: De descriptione temporum ('The Six Ages of the World'), and other texts
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Bible with prologues (ff. 4r-579v), and Interpretations of Hebrew names (ff. 580r-627v), Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 5:39: De descriptione temporum ('The Six Ages of the World') (ff. 3r-3v, 628r), Chapter lists of biblical books from Genesis to Hebrews (ff. 628v-635v). Chapters start on new...
Historia Alexandri Magni, Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano, Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly
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Historia Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-20v), Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano (ff. 20v-38v), Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly (ff. 38v-117v). Offsets of Hebrew on f. i recto. Decoration: Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, ...
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
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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
Commonplace-book of William Worcester (d. 1480 × 1485), including a contents-table of Chrétien le Gowayz de Saint-Maure (attributed), Methamorphoseos (6r–13v); Sedulius, Paschale carmen (22r–23r: excerpts); Ralph Marham, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (65r–v: excerpts); John Argentine, Actus publice habitus in academia Cantabrigiensi (165r–166v); John Gower, Verses in praise of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) (167r); and John Somerset, Querimonia de ingratitud...
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Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman French; Hebrew (f. 121r–v); Greek (f. 123).
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)
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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