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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

72. Cotton MS Galba A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII
Title:
Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts. A Cottonian composite frontispiece, from the Breviary of Margaret of York.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 2r: Cottonian composite frontispiece, formed of cuttings from two devotional manuscripts, pasted to the back of the first folio of the following item. f. 2v-200v: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan' or ‘Gal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

73. Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, f 2r

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, f 2r
Title:
Frontispiece
Scope & Content:
A frontispiece composed of fragments excised from two manuscripts: A miniature of David at prayer probably from the Breviary of Margaret of York (c. 1475-1480), now Cambridge, St John’s College, MS. H.13. Further fragments excised from this volume and reused in other Cotton manuscripts include:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 folio attached to f. 2r

74. Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, ff 2v-200v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, ff 2v-200v
Title:
Gallican Psalter with additions
Scope & Content:
The Psalter, copied in the 1st half of the 9th century, contains: ff. 30v-32r: Origin of the Prophet David. ff. 32r-33r, 33v: Prefaces to the Psalter. ff. 34v-162v: The Psalter in three divisions, beginning with Psalms 1, 51 and 101 and including the Psalm 'Pusillus eram' after Psalm 150. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex, 199 folios.

75. Cotton MS Galba B XI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B XI/1
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–202v: A volume of letters and papers concerning Germany and Belgium, over the late-fifteenth to late-sixteenth centuries. ff. 2r–4r: Latin extracts from treaties of commerce between England and the Low Countries, from 1496 to 1564. ff. 5r–10r: A rough draft in Latin of a proclamation o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Last quarter 15th century-3rd quarter 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

76. Cotton MS Galba C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba C I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1564
Extent:
1 volume

77. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 2–9

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 2–9
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione
Scope & Content:
Contents: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect). Decoration: Numbers and initials in red, some with penwork decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 8 folios

78. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r–120v: Ælfric, Grammar ( imperfect); ff. 120v–130v: Ælfric, Glossary; ff. 131r–135v: Grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’. Decoration: Initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour. Numerous small initials with penwork decoration in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 125 folios

79. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144
Title:
Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
Contents (see Walbers, 'Numbers and Measurement' (2012), table II.10) : ff. 136r–137r: Fragment of a metrical prayer;' beginning, 'Æla drihten leof. æla dema god' (Dobbie, Minor Poems (1942), p. 94); ff. 137v–140r: Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus; f. 140v: Notes on the names of the two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codes, 9 folios

80. Cotton MS Julius A VII, f 95

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VII, f 95
Title:
Unidentified theological text (f. 94r–v: imperfect); Hildebert of Lavardin (Le Mans), Carmina i, ix (f. 95v: Walther 11711, 18382): 1st half of the 13th century; Latin; origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

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