Archive Reference (shelfmark): Cotton MS / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXI
Title:: Statutes and ordinances for the maintenance of the sea-walls of Kent, (?)1436 (imperfect)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
Title:: John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1525-1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXIV
Title:: Petition of the citizens of London addressed to the council of King Edward VI of England (1547–53), 1552
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXIX
Title:: Miscellaneous fragments, including parts of a liturgical text (ff. 1–2); a neumed gradual (f. 3); a computistical text (ff. 4–5); Paulinus of Aquileia (Ps.-Augustine of Hippo), Liber exhortationis (ff. 6–7, 10); a computistical text with a diagram of the winds (f. 8); Gregory the Great, Uita sancti Benedicti abbatis (f. 9: BHL 1102); Oratio sancti Brendani (ff. 11–12); a papal bull (ff. 13–14); a Bible (f. 15); a medical text (ff. 18–19); a pontifical (ff. 27–30); a chronicle (f. 33); the end...
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; French (f. 68); English (f. 109)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXV
Title:: Regulations for the Royal Navy and Dockyards, temp. King James I of England (1603–25) (1r–9r); astronomical treatise (10r–20v); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata historica ex rebus gestis Lodovici decimi tertii [King Louis XIII of France, 1610–43] de prompta (22r); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata addressed to King James I (‘Humilis et pia cohortatio, ad potentissimum principem Iacobum, primum magnæ Britanniæ regem’) (Avignon: I. Bramereay, 1615) (ff. 23–24: printed paper); inscription of a votive altar i...
Scope & Content:: Language(s): English (1r–20v, 26r–40v); Latin and French (22r, ff. 23–24); Latin (25v); English and Latin (41r–50r) Dated: 1st quarter of the 17th century; 1615 (ff. 23–24)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXVI
Title:: A religious dialogue between a master and his disciple (imperfect)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Fragments XXVII
Title:: Notes relating to English and Continental history, primarily by Sir Robert Cotton (ff. 1–22, 32–34, 39–71); articles for an alliance between Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603) and the Protestant princes of Germany (ff. 23–25); mercantile documents (ff. 26–31); miscellaneous letters and documents (ff. 35–38)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): English and Latin; French (ff. 28–31)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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