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1. Cotton Ch

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch
Title:
Cotton Charters
Scope & Content:
Charters I 1–XXX 41
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Charters

2. Cotton Ch IV 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 44
Title:
Mislaid or unassigned
Scope & Content:
Mislaid or unassigned. According to Add MS 43502, f. 167r, there was no entry under this number in the early catalogues of the Cottonian library.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
Undetermined
Extent:

not applicable

3. Cotton Roll XIII 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIII 4
Title:
Pontifical Roll
Scope & Content:
This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIII 4. Order as Cotton Charter XIII.4. Contents: Pontifical offices and blessings: the functions performed by a bishop. Face: Membranes 1-3: Orders for performing a tonsure, the consecration of the paten and chalice, the blessing of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 roll

4. Cotton Roll XIII 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIII 33
Title:
Universal Roll Chronicle
Scope & Content:
This manuscript may also be referred to Cotton Charter XIII 33. Order as Cotton Roll XIII 33. Contents: A universal chronicle in four columns with a history of popes until Urban VI (d. 1389), of emperors (Roman and medieval) until Ludwig IV of Bavaria (d.1347), a genealogy of the kings of Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 roll

5. Cotton Ch VIII 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch VIII 26
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams: ff. 1r-8r: Kalendarium for January to December; f. 9r: Diagram of a Zodiac man with animals; f. 9v: Explanation of the calendar; f. 10r: Diagram of lunar and solar eclipses; f. 11r: Table of mov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1469
Extent:
6 folios, each folded into eight parts

6. Cotton Ch V 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch V 2
Title:
Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London
Scope & Content:
Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London, by William de Elsing, citizen of London, endowing the hospital with lands in the parishes of St Mary, Aldermanbury, St Lawrence Jewry, St Alphege, and St Martin, and setting down its constitution, including rules for the religious service...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1331
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Cotton Ch XXVI 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XXVI 19
Title:
The poor relief of Hemingford Abbots
Scope & Content:
Notes and figures for assessing the poor relief of Hemingford Abbots (Cambridgeshire). The text refers to 'his majesty's privy council' and so must date to after Elizabeth I's death in March 1603 and before the capture of Charles I in May 1646. Bound together with Cotton Chs I 8 (ff. 24r-29v),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603-1646
Extent:
1 booklet

8. Cotton Ch XVIII 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XVIII 25
Title:
Charter of William de Moreville (d. 1196)
Scope & Content:
William de Moreville, constable of the king of Scots, gives and grants, and by his charter establishes, to James [son of Lambin] of Loudoun, the land of Loudoun, by stated bounds, to hold outwith forest and free from forest, of William and his heirs, in feu and heritage, for the service of one kn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1189-1196
Extent:

Parchment leaf

9. Cotton Ch XVI 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XVI 29
Title:
Constitutions of the Council of Lambeth
Scope & Content:
Contemporary copy of the Constitutions of the Council of Lambeth, promulgated by Boniface [of Savoy], archbishop of Canterbury. Dated 3 Ides May [13 May], anno Pont. Alex. IV. 7, anno 45 Stev. III [1261]. Witnessed by H[enry de Sandwich], bishop of London, W[alter de Cantilupe], bishop of Worce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13 May 1261
Extent:

1 leaf

10. Cotton Roll XIV 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIV 4
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is also referred to as Cotton Galba Charter XIV 4 or Cotton Charter XIV 4. Order as Cotton Roll XIV 4. Contents: A fragment consisting of two membranes from a genealogical roll chronicle. On the face is the genealogy begins at Aethelred II (r. 978-1016) and his two wives, Elfl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1300
Extent:

2 membranes from a roll

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