New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
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f. 2r: Extracts from liturgical prayers with commemorations of patriarchs and abbots with no names with a later, 13th-century hand. f. 2v: List of liturgical canticles (prokimena) ff. 3r-230v: New Testament Lectionary (Apostol) Decoration: Illuminated initials and decorated headpieces.
Correspondence (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, April 1522–October 1524
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ff. 1r–382r: Correspondence (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, April 1522–October 1524, principally of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) and Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530), some in the hand of Charles V, king of Spain (1516–1556) and Holy Roman emperor (1519–1556; ...
Correspondence concerning England and Spain, February 1525–December 1526
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ff. 1r–156r: Correspondence (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, February 1525–December 1526, principally of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) and Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530). Primarily English and Latin, partly in cipher, with occasional items in Spanish and Fre...
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, 1527-1529
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Records and papers concerning England and Spain, between January 1527 and December 1529. Principally correspondence of Thomas Wolsey (1470/71–1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal, and Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland, with some papers of Charles V (1500-1558...
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, 1154-1603
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Records and papers (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain. From the reigns of King Henry II (1154–1189) to Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) of England, including: records of the Spanish government, 1574–1577 (5r–178v); ordinance of King Philip II of Spain (1556–1598) concerning ti...
Records and papers (originals and transcripts) concerning Anglo-Spanish relations, 1587-1603
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This is a collection of transcripts and original documents. A number of documents are identified as gifts, or translations from the papers of, the Spanish Ambassador (Gondomar) in 1615 ((ff. 11*r, 276r-v, 281r-284r, 289r-293v). Some of the documents probably came from Robert Beale. The document...
Contents: ff. 1r–7v: The draft will of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587), written by her secretary, Claude Nau, and with her autograph notes, February 1577, Sheffield. In French. This item was removed and bound separately from Cotton MS Vespasian C XVI in 1855.
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
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These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
A collection of chronicles and historical material including Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum and Ralph Niger, Chronica
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Contents: Chronicles and other historical material copied in the 13th to the 16th centuries, bound together in the early modern period from three formerly separate parts (see Tite: The Early Records (2003), p. 183). ff. 1-3: Flyleaves with lists of contents in an early modern hand; ff. 4-39:...