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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 266–276
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 266r-276r: Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones synodales or Decreta synodalia (a letter sent to the clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln in c. 1238). Decoration: Two initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 277–296
Title:: Continuation of Walter of Guisborough's chronicle or the 'Continuation of Hemingburgh'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 277r-296v: Chronicle from 1327 to 1346, a sixteenth-century transcript of the text known as the continuation of the Walter of Guisborough's chronicle or the 'Continuation of Hemingburgh'. The original chronicle, by Walter, an Augustinian canon of the priory of Guisborough, ended ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 297–305
Title:: Index to ff. 2-214
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 297r-305r: Alphabetical index to the Chronicle of Rochester on ff. 2-214.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 306–313
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 306r-313r: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, a fragment recounting the 1366 expedition of Edward the Black Prince to restore Pedro of Castille ('the Cruel') to his throne, beginning, 'et de la communaulte de Castelle', ending 'Responst cyl dist le capitaine'. Decoration: Initials in g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D III, ff 3–218
Title:: Cartulary of the hospital of St Leonard, York, volume one
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman French; Middle English (176r, 215r) Dated: 1st half of the 15th century to 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D IV
Title:: Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D IX
Title:: Antoine de La Sale (Salle), Le Petit Jehan de Saintré; Rasse de Brunhamel, Floridan et Elvide
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r–108r: Antoine de La Sale or Salle (b. c. 1398, d. c. 1461), Le Petit Jean de Saintré, a didactic romance about the adventures of the hero, Jean, at the court of King John of France, and of his lady, the Dame des Belles Cousines, who teaches him how to become the perfect knight...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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