Search

Language Latin Place England

151. Cotton MS Fragments XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XVI
Title:
Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from two leaves of a Latin prose text, most likely a 14th-century chronicle of English history, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. The first four leaves of the volume contained part of a chronicle of the city of London, 1194-1316/17, at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

152. Cotton MS Fragments XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
Title:
John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1525-1530
Extent:
1 volume

153. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho B V
Scope & Content:
These two fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Otho B V, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains a 14th-century copy of the Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History), written by the Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

2 fragments

154. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/2
Title:
Burnt fragment from the Cotton collection
Scope & Content:
This fragment formerly belonged to an unidentified manuscript from the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: Fragment 1: Language: Latin; Script: Gothic Cursive; Date: 14th century (?).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 fragment

155. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho D VIII
Scope & Content:
These eight fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Otho D VIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The composite manuscript is made up of six parts that were produced at separate times in England between the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
8 fragments

156. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/5
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Tiberius E I
Scope & Content:
These 12 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Tiberius E I, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Now bound in two volumes, the manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
12 fragments

157. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/7
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Vitellius E XIII
Scope & Content:
These 97 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Vitellius E XIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript is made up of two main parts: a 14th-century chronicle of English history, covering the per...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
97 fragments

158. Cotton MS Julius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius B XIII
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, AD 1-249; Gerald of Wales, De principis instructione
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-47, 48-173), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-47) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and c. 1208 and cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1174-2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

159. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
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
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

160. Cotton MS Julius D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D IX
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »