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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Name Glover, Robert, herald, genealogist and antiquarian, 1544-1588

1. 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

2. Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v
Title:
Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 176r–183r: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambrie (1st recension); ff. 183r–186r: Disputacio inter clericum et militem; ff. 186r-187r: De origine gigantium; ff. 187r–v: De longitudine et latitudine Anglie; ff. 188r-344v: Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon, to AD 1376. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Titus B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume