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1. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

2. Cotton MS Appendix I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix I
Title:
Origen, Homilie super Uetus Testamentum, comprising Genesis (1r–41r), Exodus (41r–77v) and Leviticus (77v–137v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Cotton MS Appendix II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix II
Title:
Court-book and rental of the manor of Warley (Essex), Edward IV–Elizabeth I
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Cotton MS Appendix III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix III
Title:
Gospel of St Matthew glossed
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Cotton MS Appendix IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix IV
Title:
Guido Faba, Summa dictaminis (2r–22r); Guido Faba, Dictamina rhetorica (22r–42r); Guido Faba, Exordia (42r–53r); Guido Faba, Petitiones (53r–v); Guido Faba, Arenge (53v–58r); ‘Sir John Mandeville’, Travels (59r–102r: Royal version); prophecies (102v: incomplete); Richard of Bury, Philobiblon (103r–119v); Prouinciale Romane ecclesie (Liber prouincialis) (120r–124r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Cotton MS Appendix IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix IX
Title:
Foundation-charter of Gloucester Cathedral, 3 September 1541 (2r–10r); charter of King Henry VIII of England (1509–47) for the dean and chapter of Gloucester Cathedral, 4 September 1541 (11r–26v); charter of King Henry VIII for Bishop John Wakeman of Gloucester (1541–49), 4 September 1541 (28r–36r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1541
Extent:
1 item

7. Cotton MS Appendix LII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LII
Title:
Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook (attributed), Chronicon, AD 1326–1355 (imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Cotton MS Appendix LIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LIII
Title:
Calendar (1r–6v); Easter-tables, AD 1168–1595 (7r–12r); computistical texts and tables (12v–17r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Cotton MS Appendix LIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LIV
Title:
Copies of English royal charters (2r); compotus of the English king’s castles in France, 1376–1377 (3r–14r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: 1st half of the 15th century (2r); last quarter of the 14th century (3r–14r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Cotton MS Appendix LIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LIX
Title:
James Hall, Account of the Danish expedition to Greenland, 2 May–10 August 1605, including ‘A tophigraphicall discription of the land as I did discover the same’ (7r–v) and ‘The forme and maner of the langage ussid amonges their savage people’ (English–Inuit glossary) (10r–v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English; English and Inuit
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greenlandic
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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