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Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba A XVIII
Title:: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts. A Cottonian composite frontispiece, from the Breviary of Margaret of York.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 2r: Cottonian composite frontispiece, formed of cuttings from two devotional manuscripts, pasted to the back of the first folio of the following item. f. 2v-200v: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan' or ‘Gal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, f 2r
Title:: Frontispiece
Scope & Content:: A frontispiece composed of fragments excised from two manuscripts: A miniature of David at prayer probably from the Breviary of Margaret of York (c. 1475-1480), now Cambridge, St John’s College, MS. H.13. Further fragments excised from this volume and reused in other Cotton manuscripts include:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio attached to f. 2r

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, ff 2v-200v
Title:: Gallican Psalter with additions
Scope & Content:: The Psalter, copied in the 1st half of the 9th century, contains: ff. 30v-32r: Origin of the Prophet David. ff. 32r-33r, 33v: Prefaces to the Psalter. ff. 34v-162v: The Psalter in three divisions, beginning with Psalms 1, 51 and 101 and including the Psalm 'Pusillus eram' after Psalm 150. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 199 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba C I
Title:: Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
Scope & Content:: Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1558-1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 2–9
Title:: Bede, De temporum ratione
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect). Decoration: Numbers and initials in red, some with penwork decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 8 folios

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