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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E III, f 82
Title:: List of towns in the Liber de terris dominicalibus of Leicester Abbey (ff. 83–173)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E III, ff 2–81
Title:: Chronicle of English history, AD 178–1199 (2r–31v: imperfect); list of obituaries (32r–34r); chronicle of Christ Church, Canterbury, AD 1035–1286 (34v–43r); Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie (44r–52r: Dean 13); Fourteen marvels of England (52v–54v: Dean 13); confirmation of the possessions of Christ Church, Canterbury, allegedly by Archbishop Thomas Becket (d. 1170) (55r–56v); Causa exilii et martirii beati Thome martiris (57r–59v); list of the counties of England (60r–v); list of the archbishop...
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (44r–54v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E III, ff 174–192
Title:: Wardrobe accompt of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England (d. 1369)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E IV
Title:: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made up of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-186v) was produced at Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in the 1st half of the 14th century. It contains the Register of Henry of Eastry, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (b. 1285, d. 1331). The second part (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1175-1350
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186
Title:: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244
Title:: A collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E VII
Title:: Chronicle of English history, AD 1-1364 (3r-16r); Eulogium Historiarum (18r-208v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E VIII
Title:: Verses on the kings of England to Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (2r–v: Boffey 3632); De tribus regibus Coloniensibus (3r–28v); Brut chronicle to King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (29r–148r), including a song of victory over the Scots, 1296 (83r: Boffey 3558.5), a song after the battle of Bannockburn, 1314 (88r: Boffey 2039.3), and John Page, Siege of Rouen (140r–143v: Boffey 979)
Scope & Content:: Languages: Middle English (2r–v, 29r–148r); Latin (3r–28v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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