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1. Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13
Title:
Notes of manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a set of notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), broadly arranged in chronological order, and dating from 1638 to 1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650 to 1661. The entries are frequently written in the hand of the borrow...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1637-1661
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Augustus I i 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus I i 4
Title:
Drawing of a gallery intended to be built for King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Cotton MS Caligula B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula B VII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–513v: A volume of original documents and copies concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556, several of which relate to a potential marriage between Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: Title page. ff. 2r–v, 3v: Original letter from Dr Magnus to Cardinal Wolsey, reporting that he ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Claudius A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A I
Title:
Passio sancti Cypriani (imperfect); Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (imperfect); Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi; papal, episcopal and royal letters; various hagiographies, including Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti Nazarii; Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi and Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episc...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains items from 4 originally separate medieval manuscripts, copied between the mid-10th and 14th century. f. 1r-v: Passio Sancti Cypriani (compare Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2037, imperfect) and Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (1r–v: imperfect), copied in the 14th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Claudius B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B IV
Title:
Old English Hexateuch (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains portions of the Hexateuch, in Old English: ff. 1r-1v: Ælfric’s preface to Æthelwærd (imperfect). ff. 1v-72v: Genesis. ff. 72v-105v: Exodus. ff. 105v-110v: Leviticus. ff. 111r-128r: Numbers. ff. 128v-140r: Deuteronomy. ff. 140v-156v: Joshua. The Old English text wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Claudius B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B VIII
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Samaritan
Date Range:
1362
Extent:
256 folios (256+iii)

7. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
Title:
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1r: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum; f. 53v: blank; ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Cleopatra B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I
Title:
A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin.
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany containing five parts with hagiographic, devotional and prophetic texts in Latin, probably brought together in the library of Sir Robert Cotton. The miscellany contains one of the three extant copies of the canonisation dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1190), founder ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300 - c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

10. Cotton MS Domitian A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A VII
Title:
Gospel extracts; ‘Durham Liber Vitae’
Scope & Content:
Gospel extracts (ff. 4r–14v), in Latin, middle of the 12th century (Matthew ff. 4r–5v; Mark ff. 6r–8v; Luke ff. 9r–11v; John ff. 12r–14v); Liber Vitae (‘Durham Liber Vitae’) (ff. 15r–83v), in Latin and Old English (ff. 47r–v), 1st half of the 9th century to 1st half of the 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 parchment volume