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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 61–102
Title:: Documents relating to Ely
Scope & Content:: ff. 61r–75r: Arbitrium between John Fordham, bishop of Ely (1388–1425), and the prior and convent of Ely, 1417; ff. 76r–98v: Names of the tenants of Ely Cathedral Priory; ff 99v–102v: Charter of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471), dated 1417 and c. 1438 (f. 102r–v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121
Title:: Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica
Scope & Content:: ff. 104r–121v: Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica, excerpts from book 7, ‘Que sequntur de uita et gestis gloriosi Guillelmi ducis normannorum ac victorissimi regis anglorum extracta fuerunt de quodam libro antiquo monasterii sancte stepgani de cadomo cuius monasterii fundator quondam extitit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
Title:: Anonymous compilation of canonical texts and decretals based on the Collectio Tripartita
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and episcopal correspondence; the compilation is made from the sources that are part of the canonical collection known as the Collectio Tripartita or Collectio Trium Partium (Tripartite Collection)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XVI
Title:: Kalendar (5r–10v); Paschal tables (11r–12r); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (13r–15r: excerpts); Nicholas Maniacutius, Ad incorrupta pontificum nomina conseruanda (15r–17r); lists of the bishops of Winchester and archbishops of Canterbury (17v–18r); letters of Pope Honorius III (1216–1227), Pope Gregory IX (1227–1241) and others (19r–21r); Waverley Chronicle, AD 1–1291 (24r–200v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (200r–v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century (17v–18r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 3–86
Title:: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (3r–69v); Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (70r–84v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 87–144
Title:: Register of Ramsey Abbey
Scope & Content:: Dated: last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century; 1st half of the 15th century (136v–144v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 150–156
Title:: Ecclesiastical lists, including lists of the archbishops of Canterbury (153r), the dioceses in England and Wales (153r–v), and the religious houses and castles in England (154r–156v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

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