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71. 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.

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. Cotton MS Tiberius D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IX
Title:
João de Castro, Roteiro do Mar Roxo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:
1543
Extent:
1 volume

76. Cotton MS Titus A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XV
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume I)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

77. Cotton MS Titus A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVI
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

78. Cotton MS Titus B IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus B IX
Title:
Irish Parliament, Acts of Henry IV to Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Collection of Acts of the Irish Parliament, titled ‘Severall Statutes and Acts of Parliament holden att Dublin in Ireland. As you may see in the Index at the latter end of this booke’ (f. 1r). Owned by George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), whose annotations are on ff. 8v-14r. f. 2r Abridgem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 volume.

79. Cotton MS Titus B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

80. Cotton MS Titus C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus C XII
Title:
Papers relating to Scotland, c. 1558-1569
Scope & Content:
Collection of papers concerning Scotland, and Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. From c. 1558-1569. Formerly owned by William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary and herald. Contents: f. 1r: Partial contents list, covering the first four items in the manuscript. In the hand of William Dugdale. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1558-1569
Extent:

1 volume