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651. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 126r–161v

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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 126r–161v
Title:
Gloucester Chronicle and record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: ff. 126v-144v: the Gloucester Chronicle, from AD 681 to the abbacy of Walter Froucester (d. 1412); ff. 145v-161v: record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

652. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 162r–174v

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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 162r–174v
Title:
Scutum Dei triangulum (162r); abecedarium (162v–168v); calendar (169r–174v)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: f. 162r: diagrams of the Scutum Dei triangulum in Latin and Middle English; ff. 162v-168v: an abecedarium in Latin and Middle English; ff. 169r-174v: a calendar. Decoration: initials, diagrams, lines, and rubrics in red throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

653. Cotton MS Domitian A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
Title:
Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1430
Extent:

288 folios.

654. Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII
Title:
Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises four separate manuscripts, made at various times and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631). (1) ff. 2–36: a collection of treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects, made in England in the 4th quarter of the 15th century. (2) ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 15th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

655. Cotton MS Faustina A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A XI
Title:
Discourse on the marriage of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and Lady Katherine Grey
Scope & Content:
Discourse on the subject of the 1560 secret marriage between Edward Seymour, first earl of Hertford (1539?–1621), courtier, and Katherine Seymour, [née Grey], countess of Hertford (1540?–1568), noblewoman and royal kinswoman. With a list of the commissioners in the case, and notes on conflicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561
Extent:
1 volume

656. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157
Title:
Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
These folios (ff. i, 1-157) contain a cartulary of Peterborough abbey, written in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. It was apparently compiled for the sacrist George Fraunceys (fl. c. 1393-1407) at the beginning of the 15th century, with later additions (Briston and Halliday, Pilsgate (2009), p. xi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

657. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 158–198

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 158–198
Title:
A list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); the Regularis concordia (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain part of a mid-11th century copy of the Regularis Concordia (probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates). The Regularis Concordia was intended to help standardise monastic practice in Britain in the late 10th century. The rest of the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

658. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280
Title:
Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Middle English hagiographies and a Latin chronicle of Wilton abbey: ff. 199r–263r: a verse Life of St Edith (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 243); ff. 263r–264v: a chronicle of Wilton Abbey; ff. 265r–279v: a Life of St Æthelthryth (Boffey and Edwards, A New...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

659. Cotton MS Faustina B IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B IX
Title:
Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1174-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

660. Cotton MS Faustina C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina C I
Title:
Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750; The Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three independent parts that were joined together in the 17th century, The first part (ff. 2r-65r) contains a late 14th-century cartulary of Huntingdon Priory, featuring texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. The second part (ff. 66r-93v), written at the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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