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2. Cotton MS Appendix LI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Appendix LI
- Title:
- Computus
- Scope & Content:
- An Irish version of John de Pulcro Rivo's Computus manualis, with additional computistical material in Latin. For a detailed description and translation of the Irish material, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 285-327. The manuscript was badly damaged in the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Irish and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1589
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Cotton MS Augustus II 29
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 29
- Title:
- Grant of Hodilredus (Æthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons (fl. 685×706), to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess
- Scope & Content:
- Hodilredus (Æthelred or Œthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons, grants 40 hides (manentes) at Ricingahaam, Budinhaam, Dagenham, Angenlabeshaam and Widmundes felt (Wyfields in Great Ilford), all probably in Essex, to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess, for her minster called Beddanhaam (B...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
4. Cotton MS Augustus III/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus III/1
- Title:
- A collection of drawings, maps and diagrams from the reign of Henry VIII; prints belonging to or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a miscellaneous collection of drawings of armies, men-at-arms and landscapes, maps, and what are thought to be the original designs for King Henry VIII’s tents for the Field of Cloth of Gold. The second volume is now bound as Cotton MS Augustus III/2. Cotton MS Augustus...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1500-c 1577
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Cotton MS Augustus III/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus III/2
- Title:
- A collection of prints from or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1515-c 1602
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117
- Title:
- Jerome, De viris illustribus and Vita Sancti Pauli; extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (i.21–27, 37); extract from Cyprian, Ad Quirinum Testimonia, book iii; computistical texts; and Easter tables
- Scope & Content:
- This collection of patristic writings appears to have been originally written in the second half of the 8th century at a monastery in the north of what is now France, at a centre with insular links. Some capitula and computus material were added in the first half of the 9th century, especially o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century-1st half of the 9th century
- Extent:
-
Part of a parchment codex
7. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153
- Title:
- A collection of computistical texts and tables (imperfect), charms, prognostics, Easter-table annals for Christ Church, Canterbury, and extracts from Ælfric's De temporibus anni
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a variety of computistical and prognostic material and charms, as well as an image depicting God and an angel giving a scroll to St Pachomius. It also contains annals next to its Easter table, which link the manuscript's production to Christ Church, Canterbury. Originall...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-13th century
- Extent:
-
Part of a parchment codex
8. Cotton MS Caligula B IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B IV
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1542-1567
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579. Volume 1 of 2. f. 1r-1v: List of titles of documents concerning the borders. ff. 2r-6v: Proceedings of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, and other commissioners concerning the borders. Containing copies of an indenture between th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1556-1579
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Cotton MS Caligula B VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B VII
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–513v: A volume of original documents and copies concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556, several of which relate to a potential marriage between Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: Title page. ff. 2r–v, 3v: Original letter from Dr Magnus to Cardinal Wolsey, reporting that he ha...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume