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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B I
Title:: Records and papers, temp. Henry VIII (1509–1547)
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 559. [Titus B. I. Several letters from this are printed by Hearne at the end of T. Livii Hist. Henr. V. p. 102. by Strype Mem. i. f. 49. Burnet vol. iii Coll. f. 150. 189. 235. Collier, Eccl. Hist. Coll. f. 8.] 1. The heads of a treaty between Henry ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B II
Title:: Records and papers, 1547–1603
Scope & Content:: Two volumes of records and papers, from the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553) to Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Volume I is ff. 1r–222r, Volume II is ff. 223r–514v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: mid 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B III
Title:: Records and papers concerned with late sixteenth-century domestic affairs
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–294r: A volume concerned with domestic affairs during the reigns of James I and Elizabeth I, including the regulation of alehouses and the building of fortifications. f. 1r: Partial contents list. ff. 2r–5r: A letter from James I to the magistrates of Southampton, with orders for the re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B IV
Title:: Records and papers relating to royal revenues
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans fol. 347. 1. A treatise entitled, "A reconciliation made between the King and his subjects, touching the demand of his right in old debts, and lands quietly enjoyed time out of mind, &c." 1. 2. The oath of the chancellor of the exchequer; with a note of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B IX
Title:: Irish Parliament, Acts of Henry IV to Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Collection of Acts of the Irish Parliament, titled ‘Severall Statutes and Acts of Parliament holden att Dublin in Ireland. As you may see in the Index at the latter end of this booke’ (f. 1r). Owned by George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), whose annotations are on ff. 8v-14r. f. 2r Abridgem...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B V
Title:: Records and papers relating to treaties, musters, loans and projects, mainly temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603) to James I (1603–1625)
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 420. 1. Hen. E. of Northampton, to the Privy Council? stating the manner in which treaties were formerly made, the discommodities in swerving therefrom, and the best means to redress them. 1. 2. An order of Henry III. for the levy of armed men against...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter 15th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B VI
Title:: Records and papers concerning England’s affairs with France and with the Low Countries, some in the hand of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598); miscellaneous material, including a catalogue of Anglo-Saxon coins (245r–248v), a drawing of a Roman inscription at Burgh near Bainbridge (Yorkshire) (251v), and tables of ciphers (252r–263r)
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 251. 1. A rough draught of a letter from the Bp. of Worcester (Ghinuce) and the Almoner, touching their negociation for the release of the two sons of the French king, then hostages at Madrid. (Lat.) [21 Jan. 1528] 1.2. A paper intitled, "Dr. Tayler's...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:: Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:: Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1558-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

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