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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II
Title:: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle of Battle Abbey, miscellaneous historical and heraldic texts, Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones, Jean Froissart, Chroniques.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: f. 1v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 2r–214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory to 1377; ff 215r–216v: Annalistic chronicle to1089 (imperfect); ff. 217r–v: List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, imperfect f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c.1100-c.1650
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D VIII
Title:: Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 3-175: A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum (4th quarter of the 12th century); ff. 176-344: Historical and scientific texts, including the Polychro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century -16th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, consisting of 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho C X
Title:: Papers relating to the marriages of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to the divorce of Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England and lord of Ireland, from Katherine of Aragon (1485–1536), queen of England and first consort of Henry VIII. Also concerning his marriages to: Anne Boleyn (c. 1500–1536), queen of England and second consort of Henry VIII; A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1528-1544
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho E IX
Title:: Papers and letters on maritime affairs, including the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:: Papers and letters relating to the Admiralty, Navy and shipping, 1513-1634. Including a report by Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) of the raid on Cadiz, 1587, letters of Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham (1536-1624), Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), and items conce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1513-1634
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho E VIII
Title:: Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, 1553-1613
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, dating from 1553 to 1613. Including items concerning Sir Richard Hawkins (c. 1560–1622), naval officer; Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618), courtier, explorer, and author; Sir Hugh Willoughby (d. 1554?), sea captain; Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), merchant a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1553-1613
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
Title:: Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 11th -15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2
Title:: Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Coronation Book of Charles V (r. 1364–1380), King of France, comprising the French coronation order commissioned by him in 1365 (see his colophon on f. 74v). The order was subsequently supplemented with texts of several oaths, probably sometime...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1365-1380
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IX
Title:: João de Castro, Roteiro do Mar Roxo
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius E I/1
Title:: John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–5v: List of contents; ff. 6r–13r: Sts Edward the Confessor; ff. 13r–14r: Wulsin (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 8754); ff. 14r–15v: Adrian (BHL 3741); ff. 15v–17v: Aelred of Rievaulx (BHL 2645); ff. 17v–22v: Kentigern (BHL 4648); ff. 22v–25r: Fursey (BHL 3218); ff. 25r–26v: Henry the he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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