Letter book of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland (vol. 1)
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Letter book of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland and courtier (1529-1586). Containing copies of letters sent 1575-78. With other papers relating to Ireland. f. 1r Seventeenth-century description: ‘The Coppies of such Letters as hath beene written to the Queene and her Councell by Sir Hen...
Letter book of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland (vol. 2)
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Letter book of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland and courtier (1529-1586). Containing copies of letters sent 1575-78. With other papers relating to Ireland. f. 222r Letter from Arthur Chichester to the Lord Deputy. Dublin, May 21 1613. ff. 224-226v List of the Lords of Parliament in Ire...
Contents: Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, from 1066 to 1224; this is the earliest surviving copy of the text, believed to be a working copy as it is written in various hands, one of which was probably Ralph's; there are numerous additions in the margins and on inserted slips of parc...
Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba (ff. 125r–131r: BHL 5951); lessons on the feast of the apparition of St Michael (ff. 131v–133r); neums (f. 133v): Latin; 1489 (ff. 125r–131r); last quarter of the 15th century (ff. 131v–133r); origin England, made for John Taylor, chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (d. 1492); owned by St Michael’s Mount; Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
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Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587.The remainder of this volume has been bound as Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2.
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
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Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587. The remainder of this volume has been bound as Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1.
La fundacion de la companie de Gartier dans le chastell de Wyndesor (10r–12v); verses on the twelve virtues of a nobleman (13v–15r); statutes of the Order of the Garter (16r–23r); The particular styles of the king’s majestie, of the prynce and of the residence of the compaignions of the most noble Order of the Garter, assembled at the ffeaste of St. George holden at White Halle, Anno Domini 1604 (24r–v); treatise on the Order of the Garter (25r–59v: imperfect); excerpts on the Order of the Ga...
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (10r–24v); Latin (25r–77v); English (78r–82r) Dated: 1st half of the 16th century (10r–23r, 25r–77v); 1st quarter of the 17th century (24r–v, 78r); middle of the 16th century (79r–82r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Correspondence of William Camden (d. 1623), including letters by Abraham Ortelius (d. 1598) (ff. 4, 6, 24, 28, 33, 42), Gerard Mercator (d. 1594) (f. 5), John Dee (d. 1609) (ff. 45–46), John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1604) (f. 47), James Ussher (d. 1656) (ff. 72–74, 135), and Sir Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640) (f. 241)
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Language(s): Latin, English and French; Greek (f. 58)
Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori
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Contents: ff. 84r-101v: Canones Cottoniani, a version of the Iudicia Theodori. Rubric: 'Incipit iudicium de penitentia Theodori episcopi'. Beginning: 'In ordinatione presbiteri'. Decoration: Foliated initial in black (f. 84r). Rubrics in red. This is possibly part of the same medieval manusc...