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21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Cotton MS Titus C XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus C XV
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Titus C XV
Scope & Content:
Leaf of the Breviary of Margaret of York, incorporating a mounted papyrus fragment of Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in Evangelia, followed by fragments of the Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 6th century-c 1480
Extent:

5 folios

28. Cotton MS Titus D XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVIII
Title:
The Katherine Group of Middle English texts; an Abecedarium and other verses; lists of Archbishops
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three parts, bound together: ff. 1-12: An Abecedarium in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; a verse prophecy of the Sibille, verses on the zones of the Earth, the seasons and related topics in Latin; a Greek litany (2nd half of the 14th century); ff. 14-147: The Katherine Gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1550
Extent:

A parchment codex

29. Cotton MS Vespasian B II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B II
Title:
Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

30. Cotton MS Vitellius F V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F V
Title:
Chronicle of London, 1550-1563 ('The Chronicle of Henry Machyn')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Chronicle of Henry Machyn (b. 1496/1498, d. 1563), an English clothier and diarist based in London. The Chronicle begins in August 1550 and ends in August 1563, the year of Machyn's death, and provides an eyewitness account to events in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1550-Aug 1563
Extent:
1 volume