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
La fundacion de la companie de Gartier dans le chastell de Wyndesor (10r–12v); verses on the twelve virtues of a nobleman (13v–15r); statutes of the Order of the Garter (16r–23r); The particular styles of the king’s majestie, of the prynce and of the residence of the compaignions of the most noble Order of the Garter, assembled at the ffeaste of St. George holden at White Halle, Anno Domini 1604 (24r–v); treatise on the Order of the Garter (25r–59v: imperfect); excerpts on the Order of the Ga...
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (10r–24v); Latin (25r–77v); English (78r–82r) Dated: 1st half of the 16th century (10r–23r, 25r–77v); 1st quarter of the 17th century (24r–v, 78r); middle of the 16th century (79r–82r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Miscellaneous papers, including a bill of expenses of John Man (d. 1569), late ambassador to Spain (83r–84v); drawings of Roman monuments found in northern England (101r–103r); names of the bishops of Exeter (104r); cycle of years, 1571–1600 (105r–v); The precedency of England befor Franc and Spayn (107r–118r); Sir Robert Cotton, A breife treatise of the question of precædency betwixt England and Spaine (120r–130r); papers relating to the Office of Arms (140r–151r)
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Dated: 1st half of the 16th century to 1st half of the 17th century; middle of the 15th century (146r–v)
Correspondence of William Camden (d. 1623), including letters by Abraham Ortelius (d. 1598) (ff. 4, 6, 24, 28, 33, 42), Gerard Mercator (d. 1594) (f. 5), John Dee (d. 1609) (ff. 45–46), John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1604) (f. 47), James Ussher (d. 1656) (ff. 72–74, 135), and Sir Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640) (f. 241)
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Language(s): Latin, English and French; Greek (f. 58)