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91. Cotton MS Otho E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E IV
Title:
Letter-book of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (d. 1592) as English Ambassador in France, 1580-1582
Scope & Content:
This is the letter-book (1580-1582) of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (1537-1592), English Ambassador in France. (Cobham preferred to use the family title of Cobham as surname rather than the actual family name of Brooke). The volume was badly damaged in the fire of the Cotton MSS in 1731, so na...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1580-1582
Extent:
1 volume.

92. Cotton MS Otho E IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E IX
Title:
Papers and letters on maritime affairs, including the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:
Papers and letters relating to the Admiralty, Navy and shipping, 1513-1634. Including a report by Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) of the raid on Cadiz, 1587, letters of Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham (1536-1624), Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), and items conce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1513-1634
Extent:
1 volume.

93. Cotton MS Otho E VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E VIII
Title:
Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, 1553-1613
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, dating from 1553 to 1613. Including items concerning Sir Richard Hawkins (c. 1560–1622), naval officer; Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618), courtier, explorer, and author; Sir Hugh Willoughby (d. 1554?), sea captain; Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), merchant a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1553-1613
Extent:
1 volume

94. Cotton MS Tiberius A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A II
Title:
The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript consists of 3 separate items: ff. 1r-1v: A cutting from the Breviary of Margaret of York; ff. 2r-2v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 3r-218v: The four Gospels with prefatory texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 9th century-4th quarter 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 3 items: 218 folios

95. Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
Title:
Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
11th -15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items

96. Cotton MS Tiberius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B I
Title:
Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises two independent portions, bound together in the 17th century, plus early modern prefatory material and medieval endleaves: f. 1r: early modern list of contents; f. 2r: Cottonian frontispiece; f. 2v: faded early modern lines; ff. 3r-111v: Old English version of Orosi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

97. Cotton MS Tiberius B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough.
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1r: an early modern table of contents and notes; f. 2r: a Cottonian frontispiece; ff. 3r- 86v: the 'D' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, mostly written in the 11th century with some 16th-century supply leaves; ff. 87r-v: two writs of King Cnut for 1035; ff. 88r-9...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

98. Cotton MS Tiberius B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V
Title:
11th-century collection of computistical, astronomical, geographical and historical texts and Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of 5 separate items bound together in two volumes: Cotton Tiberius B V/1 includes: ff. 2-73, 77-88: A collection of computistical, historical and astronomical texts, including maps and diagrams; f. 74: Documents relating to Ely Abbey; f. 75: Leaf of a Gospel-book in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
700-1350
Extent:

2 parchment codices

99. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Tiberius B VIII
Scope & Content:
The Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France (r. 1364–1380) (ff. 35-80), formerly bound with a 12th-century pontifical (ff. 3-34, 81-197), now separate volumes
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1365-1380
Extent:

2 items, formerly bound together

100. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2
Title:
Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Coronation Book of Charles V (r. 1364–1380), King of France, comprising the French coronation order commissioned by him in 1365 (see his colophon on f. 74v). The order was subsequently supplemented with texts of several oaths, probably sometime...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1365-1380
Extent:

1 volume

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