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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VIII, ff 87–130
Title:: Breuiarium regum Anglorum, to the reign of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) (87r–121v); Bartolus of Sassoferrato, De insigniis et armis (122r–129r); ‘The names of Cheuytayns that come wyth Wylliam Conquerour’ (129v–130v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Middle English (129v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VIII, ff i, 1–86
Title:: Medieval endleaves (ff. i, 1); Rochester Chronicle, AM 5220–AD 1179 (2r–41r), Uita Gundulfi episcopi (42r–86r)
Scope & Content:: Dated: c. 1133 (2r–36v, 42r–86r); c. 1133 to 2nd half of the 12th century (37r–41r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1133-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A X/1
Title:: Works of Justus de Justis and theological excerpts
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Bibliothecae Cottonianae (Oxfo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1475
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A X/1, ff 1–40
Title:: Writings of Justus de Justis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Flyleaves containing traces of a now illegible text in a 16th century ?Humanistic hand (f. 1), over which Robert Cotton has written binding instructions; a table of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638), Robert Cotton's librarian (f. 3r); a stanza from John of Ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex consisting of 40 folios, bound together with ff 131-144 in a single volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A X/1 ff 131–144
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 134r–143r: Theological excerpts including Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissime de cognitione humane conditionis, copied in the second quarter of the 13th century; f. 144v: Epitaph of Ranulf Brito, abbot of Ramsey (1231–53), added in the third quarter of the 13th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex consisting of 14 folios, bound together with ff 1-40 in a single volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A X/2
Title:: Four anonymous poems in Middle English: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, consecutively numbered, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Biblio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: Parchment codex

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