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1. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

2. Cotton MS Caligula C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C IX
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587, including the correspondence of James VI, King of Scots
Scope & Content:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587. Includes the correspondence of James VI, King of Scots (1567–1625) (the future King James I of England).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1581-1st half 17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Cotton MS Caligula D VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula D VIII
Title:
Correspondence and other records (many of them originals) concerning England and France, 1521-1524, including letters and drafts in the hands of King Francis I of France (1515–47) and Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530); note of the apparel of Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631), 14 October 1621 (f. 117)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 233. 1. Sir Rd. Jerningham, and sir Nic. Carew, to Card. Wolsey; respecting the negociations between the emperor and Francis I; and containing other intelligence. (Orig.) Romorantin, Jan. 8, 1521. 1.2. Hen. VIII; his instructions to Fitzwilliam and Je...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1521-1621
Extent:
1 item

4. Cotton MS Caligula E X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula E X
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and France, 1600–1603
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 416. 1. Two sets of queries proposed by an English ambassador in France (sir H. Nevill?) to the queen's ministers. 2.2. A dispatch from the English ambassador in France (sir H. Nevill?) reporting an audience concerning the D. de Bouillon. Jan. 4, 1602...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Cotton MS Claudius B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B X
Title:
Carta de executoria de hidalguia made for Juan de la Torre de Valle of Gran Puerto de Santa Maria
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 item

6. Cotton MS Cleopatra F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra F VII
Title:
Collections relating to the precedence of England, France and Spain, including Robert Wingfield, Nobilissima disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici, habita ab utriusque oratoribus et legatis in concilio Constantiensi (Louvain: Theodoricus Martinus, 1517) (ff. 43-68: printed text), and Iacob Valdesio, De dignitate regum regnorumque Hispaniae, et honoratiori loco eis, seu eorum legatis a conciliis, ac Romana sede iure debito (Granada: Ferdinand Diaz a Montoya,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
15th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Cotton MS Galba C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba C VI
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1576–1580
Scope & Content:
Part I Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 178. 1. Minutes of state papers from the Low Countries. 1577. 1. 2. Q. Elizxabeth’‘s instructions sent to Dan Rogers, being at present in Germany with the D. of Saxony. July 30,1577. 3. 3. The K. of Spain’‘s warrant in favour of sir Tho. Stuck...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
3rd quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Cotton MS Galba D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba D III
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1588–1589
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1588-1589. ff. 3r-4v Letter from Sir William Russell to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting the dangers he apprehends for Flushing. Flushing, January 2 1587-8. ff. 5r-6v Memorandum for Joachim Ortell, agent sent from the Stat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

9. Cotton MS Galba D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba D VII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1590
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 336. [See Rymer, vol. xvi, 33, 31, 34, 39, 42, 44, 50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 61, 63-66, 72-79, 82.] 1. "The effect of a motion made to me (Bodley?) by a principal person of the States," concerning the affairs between England and the United Provinces. 1590....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Cotton MS Julius E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E II
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Julius E II
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items