Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750; The Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three independent parts that were joined together in the 17th century, The first part (ff. 2r-65r) contains a late 14th-century cartulary of Huntingdon Priory, featuring texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. The second part (ff. 66r-93v), written at the ...
Miscellaneous political and historical tracts (originals and copies), including Richard Morison, A Persuasion to the King that the Law of his Realm should be in Latin (5r–22r: draft); The Policy and Government of the Duchy of Florence (30r–38r); and Calender or Cataloge off Mr Cotton’s 4 bookes ABCD of Treaties, Actes and Monuments, 1600 (204r–206v)
Papers relating to the University and town of Cambridge (originals and copies), including a list of its chancellors, AD 289–1605 (81r–102r), and arms of the university, selected colleges and Eton College (533r–537r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English, French, Anglo-Norman French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century