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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186
Title:: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244
Title:: A collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E VI
Title:: Records and papers concerning England and France, 1580–1589
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus in folio, constans foliis 427. [See Rymer XVI. 20-27, 29, 35, 39, 40.] 1. Q. Elizabeth's instructions to sir Hen. Cobham, her ambassador to the French king. Greenwich, Oct. 10, 1580. 1. 2. Henry K. of Navarre (afterwards H. IV. of France) to Ld. Burleigh; complaining of many e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E VII
Title:: Chronicle of English history, AD 1-1364 (3r-16r); Eulogium Historiarum (18r-208v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E VIII
Title:: Verses on the kings of England to Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (2r–v: Boffey 3632); De tribus regibus Coloniensibus (3r–28v); Brut chronicle to King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (29r–148r), including a song of victory over the Scots, 1296 (83r: Boffey 3558.5), a song after the battle of Bannockburn, 1314 (88r: Boffey 2039.3), and John Page, Siege of Rouen (140r–143v: Boffey 979)
Scope & Content:: Languages: Middle English (2r–v, 29r–148r); Latin (3r–28v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E X, ff 2–58
Title:: Kalendar (2r–7v); surveys and rentals of Ramsey Abbey (8r–58v)
Scope & Content:: Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to 1st quarter of the 15th century
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba E X, ff 59–147
Title:: Letter-books (59r–90v); registers of the chapter of York Minster, 1396–1398, 1480–1500 (91r–147r)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (116v) Dated: last quarter of the 14th century (59r–130v); last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century (131r–147r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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