Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts. A Cottonian composite frontispiece, from the Breviary of Margaret of York.
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This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 2r: Cottonian composite frontispiece, formed of cuttings from two devotional manuscripts, pasted to the back of the first folio of the following item. f. 2v-200v: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan' or ‘Gal...
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)
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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...
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1499–1508
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans fol. 135. cum superiore simul compactus. 1. A treaty of commerce between England and Burgundy, with the full powers and ratifications of Henry VII. and Philip Archd. of Austria, D. of Burgundy. (Lat. vid. Rym. XII. 713.) May 18, 1499. [10] 1. 2. Another copy...
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1510–1515
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Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, between 1510 and 1515. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Thomas Spinelly to Lewis Moreton. Protesting against the demands of Emperor Maximilian. Malines, January 9 1512/13. French. ff. 3v-4r: Contract between Thomas Spinelly and Hans Popenruyter. Concer...