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1. Add MS 4696

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Title:
LIST of the MSS., charters (626), medals and bullae (200), brass images (10), and framed pictures (12), in the Cotton Library, made by the Rev. Dr. Richard Bentley, Keeper of the Library; 10 May 1718
Scope & Content:
Paper roll. 4.52 m. x 0.36 m. A.D. 1718. Presented 31 July 1756 by Samuel Burroughs, who had received it in 1755 from the widow of David Casley, the Deputy-Keeper of the Library. Cotton Library: Schedule of contents: 1718. Richard Bentley, DD; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Catalogue of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1718
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4996

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Title:
CATALOGUE OF MSS. in the Cotton Library, compiled by William Hanbury, Keeper of the Library; 1 Nov. 1706
Scope & Content:
Latin. Bound into the volume at ff. 79-81 is a list on paper of unplaced MSS. Vellum with paper (3 leaves); ff. 81. Large folio. A.D. 1706. William Hanbury, Keeper of the Cotton Library: Catalogue of Cotton MSS. compiled by: 1706. Cotton Library: Catalogue of MSS. in, by W. Hanbury: 1706.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1706
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 21500

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AUTOGRAPH letters from Thomas Carte, the historian, including a receipt of payment for his "History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde," to Corbet Kynaston, M.P. for co. Salop; 10 July, 1728- 4 July, 1738. At f. 123 is a prospectus of the writer's "History of England," with names of subscribers. The book-plate of Sir John Bickerton Williams, Knt., June, 1823, is on f. 1. Paper. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Corbet Kynaston, MP: for Salop. Letters to, from T. Carte: 1728-1738. Thomas Carte: Letters to C. Kynaston: 1728-1738. includes: f. 62 Cotton Library: Account of its condition after the fire, by T. Carte: 1732. f. 123 Thomas Carte: Prospectus of his "History of England,": 1738.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1728-4 Jul 1738
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 22641

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Title:
TRANSCRIPTS of 19 charters, of the XIIth-XIVth centt., formerly in the Cotton and D'Ewes collections; with tracings of the seals; made from a volume, belonging to the Earl of Winchilsea, "containing facsimile transcripts of 529 ancient charters, accompanied by drawings of the Seals appended to them," in order to supply deficiencies in the Cotton and Harley collections. Included is also a transcript of a pretended epistle from Pope Constantine (708-715) to Brihtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Symonds D'Ewes, 1st Baronet; of Stowlangtoft: Transcripts of charters formerly belonging to: 1858. Cotton Library: Copies of charters formerly belonging to: 1858. Charters: Transcripts of charters formerly in the Cottonian and D'Ewes Collections: 1858. Brihtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 24932

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Title:
"A REPORT from the committee appointed to view the Cottonian Library;" London, 1732. Printed; with MS. notes. Some of the notes are unconnected with the printed matter, and relate to the history and topography of Yorkshire. Paper; xviiith cent. Small Folio.
Scope & Content:
County of York: Notes on the history and topography of: 18th cent. Cotton Library: Report of the Committee on: 1732.: Printed and MS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 29547

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Title:
POLITICAL and other papers, collected by the Rev. George Harbin; tempp. Hen. VIII.-Geo. II. The contents are:- 1. Extracts from Cotton MS., Vitellius B. xiv., and Nicholas Harpsfield's treatise in MS. cccxi. of New College, Oxford, relating to the divorce of Henry VIII. and Catharine of Aragon, ff. 1, 11. 2. Grant from Edward VI. to Richard Coxe, High Almoner, of goods of felons, deodands, etc., "in augmentum elimosine nostre;" 16 Mar.. a° 1 [1547]. Lat. Copy. f. 18. 3. Report of the c...
Scope & Content:
George Harbin, nonjuror; chaplain to Bishop of Ely: Correspondence and collections on ecclesiastical and historical subjects: 17th - 18th centt. includes: ff. 1, 11 Henry VIII of England: Divorce from Qu. Katharine: 1533-1536. ff. 1-11 Cotton Library: Copies of letters, now burnt, from Vitell....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 33216

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Title:
ABRIDGEMENT of Records in the Tower, i.e., the Rolls of Parliament, tempp, Edw. II.Ric. III., by Sir Robert Cotton: the original collections for the work, formerly one of the volumes of the Cottonian Library, with some notes and corrections in Sir Robert Cotton's hand. Paper; ff. 372. xvith-xviith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
England; Parliament: Abridgement of the Rolls of: tempp. Edw. II.-Rich. III. Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet; antiquary: Abridgement of Rolls of Parliament, tempp. Edw. II.-Ric. III. in the Tower;: 16th-17th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 36682 A-B

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Add MS 36682 A-B
Title:
CATALOGUE of the Cotton Manuscripts, of uncertain date but earlier than 1654, as appears from a marginal note of a book lent to " Mr Selden " (Vol. I. f. 78 b). The MSS. are arranged under their press-marks still in use, but the list is not quite complete, wanting descriptions of the press Augustus and of shelves Caligula B.-E., Vespasian E. and F., Titus F., Faustina C.-F., and several single MSS. In two cases (Jul. B. x, Vit. B. i) the MS. gives particulars of MSS. lost before Smith's cata...
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Cotton Library: Catalogues of,: temp. Chas. I. 1635. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet; of Conington: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Sir R. Cotton's MSS.: circ. 1635, temp. Chas.I. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1654
Extent:

2 items

9. Add MS 38683

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Title:
TRANSCRIPT of a catalogue of Cotton Charters, copied in Apr. 1913 by the Rev. H. E. Salter. The original MS. (Bodl. 15695 = MS. Smith 90; see Madan, Cat. of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, iii, p. 471) was written circ. 1680-1700, immediately preceding Wanley's catalogue (Harley MS. 7647; another copy in the reference library of the Dept. of MSS.). The arrangement is under the presses distinguished by the busts of the twelve Caesars, as in Wanley, but the descriptions ar...
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Oxford; University of. Bodleian Library: Transcript of MS. Bodl. 15695 (Smith 90): 1913. Cotton Library: Catalogue of charters in,: late 17th -cent.: Copy 1913. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Transvript of catalogue of charters in the Cotton Library: late 17th cent, 1913.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1913
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 42724

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Title:
ALFRED'S 'PASTORAL CARE'. A copy, in the hand of Edmund Gibson, afterwards Bishop of London, of the transcript made by Junius of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi, containing Alfred's Anglo-Saxon translation of Gregory's 'Pastoral Care'. Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi was virtually destroyed in successive fires in 1731 and 1865, and apart from a few charred fragments (all reproduced and transcribed in N. R. Ker, The Pastoral Care, Early English MSS. in Facsimile, vi, Copenhagen. 1956) knowledge of its te...
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Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Copy of transcript of AngloSaxon transl. of his Cura Pastoralis: circ. 1690. Oxford; University of. Bodleian Library: Copy, by E. Gibson, of Junius MS. 53: circ. 1690. Francis Junius, antiquary: Copy, by E. Gibson, of his transcript of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. xi: cir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 item