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111. Cotton MS Faustina A XI

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Cotton MS Faustina A XI
Title:
Discourse on the marriage of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and Lady Katherine Grey
Scope & Content:
Discourse on the subject of the 1560 secret marriage between Edward Seymour, first earl of Hertford (1539?–1621), courtier, and Katherine Seymour, [née Grey], countess of Hertford (1540?–1568), noblewoman and royal kinswoman. With a list of the commissioners in the case, and notes on conflicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561
Extent:
1 volume

112. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157
Title:
Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
These folios (ff. i, 1-157) contain a cartulary of Peterborough abbey, written in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. It was apparently compiled for the sacrist George Fraunceys (fl. c. 1393-1407) at the beginning of the 15th century, with later additions (Briston and Halliday, Pilsgate (2009), p. xi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

113. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 158–198

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 158–198
Title:
A list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); the Regularis concordia (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain part of a mid-11th century copy of the Regularis Concordia (probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates). The Regularis Concordia was intended to help standardise monastic practice in Britain in the late 10th century. The rest of the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

114. Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280

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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280
Title:
Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Middle English hagiographies and a Latin chronicle of Wilton abbey: ff. 199r–263r: a verse Life of St Edith (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 243); ff. 263r–264v: a chronicle of Wilton Abbey; ff. 265r–279v: a Life of St Æthelthryth (Boffey and Edwards, A New...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

115. Cotton MS Faustina B IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B IX
Title:
Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1174-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

116. Cotton MS Faustina C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina C I
Title:
Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750; The Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three independent parts that were joined together in the 17th century, The first part (ff. 2r-65r) contains a late 14th-century cartulary of Huntingdon Priory, featuring texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. The second part (ff. 66r-93v), written at the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

117. Cotton MS Fragments I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments I
Title:
Historical compilation related to Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus
Scope & Content:
These 30 leaves originally belonged to a 12th-century manuscript, containing a historical compilation closely related to the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer. The manuscript has been shown to be contemporaneous with the autograph copy of Lambert's work (now Ghent, University Library, MS 9...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

118. Cotton MS Fragments VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments VIII
Title:
Meditationes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains fragments from six leaves of a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A collection of fragments from a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, containing the following...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

119. Cotton MS Fragments XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XIX
Title:
Theological treatise
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from four leaves of an unidentified theological treatise (or treatises) in Latin prose, incorporating quotations from Biblical and exegetical works. The volume was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Fragments from an uniden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Cotton MS Fragments XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XVI
Title:
Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from two leaves of a Latin prose text, most likely a 14th-century chronicle of English history, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. The first four leaves of the volume contained part of a chronicle of the city of London, 1194-1316/17, at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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