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811. Cotton MS Nero B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B XI
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Turkey, Abyssinia, Constantinople, Morocco and Russia, temp. Edward II (1307–1327) to 1620, including Relazione della presa della fortezza, e porto di Seleucia, detta Agliman, in Caramania (Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1613 (ff. 256–261: printed text)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 402. 1. A circumstantial account of the person, family, court, forces, revenues, dominions, &c. of Mahomet III. Ottoman emperor, 1595-1603. 1. 2. A dissertation tending to prove that christian princes wrong themselves and their honour, when they h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

812. Cotton MS Fragments XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
Title:
John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1525-1530
Extent:
1 volume

813. Cotton MS Augustus II 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 61
Title:
Decree of a synod of Clofesho, 803
Scope & Content:
Decree of a council of Clofesho concerning the restoration of the metropolitan rights of the see of Canterbury and the abolition of the archbishopric of Lichfield; dated 12 October 803 (Sawyer, no. 1431a). Endorsed in an 11th- or 12th-century hand, ‘Epistulas […]’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Scri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

814. Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1

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

815. Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII
Title:
Refoundation charter of the New Minster, Winchester
Scope & Content:
f. 2v: Frontispiece depicting King Edgar of England offering his charter to Christ. ff. 3v–33v: Charter of King Edgar refounding the New Minster, Winchester; dated 966 (Sawyer, no. 745). ff. 34r–37r: Charter of King Edgar for the New Minster, 966 (Sawyer, no. 746). ff. 37v–38v: Charter of Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 10th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

816. Cotton MS Galba B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Flanders, 1341–1473 (original documents); draft certificate of the coat of arms of Robert Hampson of London, 10 October 1602 (ff. 209–210); notes on English embassies to Flanders, 1402–1405 (ff. 214–215)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): French, Latin and English; English (ff. 209–210, 214–215) This manuscript was formerly marked Vespasian F. XI. but this evidently is its proper place. The articles are here numbered, and not the pages. Codex chartaceus, in folio, schedis constans 167. 1. "La credence donn&ecu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

817. Cotton MS Nero B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero B VIII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Russia, Greece, Turkey, Venice and Morocco, temp. Henry VI (1422–1461, 1470–1471) to temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including letters of Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia (1547–1584), Feodor I, Tsar of Russia (1584–1598), and Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah, sultan of Morocco (1557–1574), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598); letter of Germanus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1537–1579), addressed to King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547), ...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English, German, Russian, Greek (ff. 44–45), Arabic (ff. 46, 49, 61–62, 67, 70), Italian and Spanish Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 68. 1. The czar Iwan IV. Vassiliewitch, to Q. Elizabeth; desiring her to permit some of his merchants to purchase several article...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

818. Cotton MS Vespasian C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C X
Title:
Sir Charles Cornwallis, Discourse of the State of Spayne, 1607 (1r–35r); correspondence of Sir Charles Cornwallis, English ambassador to Spain (1605–1609; d. 1629), March 1607–April 1608, November 1614 (35r–180v, 189r–233r, 235v–348r); Sir Charles Cornwallis, A discourse to prove that a coniunction by allyance of England and Spayne is the most honorable and proffitablest course, 1607 (180v–189r); letter of King James I of England (1603–1625) on English grievances in Spain (233r–235v)
Scope & Content:
Codex chart. in fol. folior. 348. {See note to the preceding no.} An Official Copy Book. 1. A discourse of the state of Spain, written by sir Ch. Cornwallis, ambassador at that court, about the beginning of the year 1607. 1.2. A series of letters from and to sir Ch. Cornwallis. 1607. 35. {1.}...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

819. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis ; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note on the ages of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (a paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis; hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others; Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes two parts. The first part contains a selection of biblical texts, hymns, and other notes, copied in the 10th century in the southern England (possibly at Canterbury). The second part contains Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi, copied in England in the 11th century. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-10th century - late 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

820. Cotton MS Nero C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C X
Title:
Papers of King Edward VI
Scope & Content:
ff. 2–4: Correspondence relating to Prince Edward of England (the future King Edward VI). ff. 5–9: Letters of Prince Edward of England (ff. 5, 7–9 in Latin). ff. 10–83: Diary of Edward VI, king of England (1547–1553). ff. 84–117: Miscellaneous documents relating to the reign of Edward VI (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1537-1553
Extent:

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