Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1558–1567
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 399. [Anderson, in his Collections relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, has published many letters &c. from this volume and from Calig. C. I. See also Burnet's Reformation, vol. iii coll. ff. 278, 283, 352, 358. and Forbes' State Papers vol. i. 84, 3...
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
Miscellaneous papers, including the statutes of Cardinal’s College, Oxford (Christ Church) (1r-90r)
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Codex chartac. in folio, constans foliis 330. [1+333#] 1. Statuta collegii Cardinalitii, Oxoniae. 2. [1-90v] 2. K. Henry VIII, to the Bp. of Durham; signifying that he had ordered sir Robt Chamberlayne and some other persons taken within he liberties of the church of Durham, to be brought to hi...
Kalendar (5r–10v); Paschal tables (11r–12r); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (13r–15r: excerpts); Nicholas Maniacutius, Ad incorrupta pontificum nomina conseruanda (15r–17r); lists of the bishops of Winchester and archbishops of Canterbury (17v–18r); letters of Pope Honorius III (1216–1227), Pope Gregory IX (1227–1241) and others (19r–21r); Waverley Chronicle, AD 1–1291 (24r–200v)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (200r–v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century (17v–18r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
This manuscript contains a set of notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), broadly arranged in chronological order, and dating from 1638 to 1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650 to 1661. The entries are frequently written in the hand of the borrow...
These eight fragments most likely belonged to Cotton MS Otho B XI, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains copies of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...