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1. Cotton MS Vespasian B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B III
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Titus A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVII
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation and royal entrance into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1517
Extent:

1 volume

3. Cotton MS Claudius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius D III
Title:
Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: an index to the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 52r-140v), A-H, written in the hand of Robert Cotton’s librarian, Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), with an additional list of contents (f. 2r). f. 3r: a rejected leaf from a martyrology, written in Latin. f. 3v: Simon of Waverl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Cotton MS Vitellius F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Claudius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B I
Title:
The Life and Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). Another full copy of the text now survives as Cotton MS Julius F II. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Cotton MS Julius F II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius F II
Title:
Middle English translations of the Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden and Alfonso Fernández Pecha, Epistola solitarii ad reges
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint, Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). The other full-text copy survives in Cotton MS Claudius B I. Also pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume