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201. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/6
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Tiberius E VII
Scope & Content:
These 35 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Tiberius E VII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Now bound in two volumes, the manuscript contains a number of religious texts written in Middle English, inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
35 fragments

202. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/7
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Vitellius E XIII
Scope & Content:
These 97 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Vitellius E XIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript is made up of two main parts: a 14th-century chronicle of English history, covering the per...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
97 fragments

203. Cotton MS Julius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius B XIII
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, AD 1-249; Gerald of Wales, De principis instructione
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-47, 48-173), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-47) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and c. 1208 and cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1174-2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

204. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

205. Cotton MS Julius D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D IX
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

206. Cotton MS Julius D VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D VII/1
Title:
Matthew Paris, Map of Britain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a map of Britain by the English artist and chronicler Matthew Paris (b. c. 1200, d. 1259). Originally drawn on a single folio, it was folded and cut into four leaves and became ff. 50r-53v of Cotton MS Julius D VII, the only surviving copy of the collectanea of John of W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1250-1260
Extent:

1 leaf

207. Cotton MS Julius E IV/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E IV/3
Title:
The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third volume of Cotton MS Julius E IV. The other volumes are Cotton MS Julius E IV/1 and Cotton MS Julius E IV/2. This volume contains the only surviving copy of a Middle English illustrated biography of Richard Beauchamp (b. 1382, d. 1439), 13th Earl of Warwick during the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

208. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108
Title:
Bede the Venerable, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (excerpt); Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (imperfect); Excerpta de Vita et Miraculis Sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 46r-47r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672/3, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), Book 4.32 [healing miracle of St Cuthbert]. ff. 47r-85v: Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (Translation and Miracles of St Cuthbert), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

209. Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118
Title:
Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-118v: Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis. This part of the manuscript contains a later addition: f. 118v: A list of readings for liturgical feasts (‘oblaciones’) with folio numbers, added in a 13th-century script. Decoration: Medium and smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A V

210. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131
Title:
Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; excerpts from William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, Agobard of Lyons, De Picturis et Imaginibus and Iunianus Iustinus, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus’ lost Historiae Philippicae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 113r-120r: Henry of Saltrey (fl. c. 1184), Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii (Treatise on Saint Patrick's Purgatory), beginning: ‘Patri suo in Christo praeoptato H, abbati de Sartis’. ff. 120r-122v: Alexander of Canterbury (fl. 1109), Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselm (On the Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

211. Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161
Title:
Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r). [ff. 4r, 159v are blank] Decoration: Several large initials in red; numerous small initials in red, sometimes with simple ornamen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C V

212. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9
Title:
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali (The Passion of Saints Alban and Amphibalus), preceded by a prologue (f. 2r); beginning of the prologue: 'Quisquis beatorum martyrum gloriosa certamina'; beginning of the Vita (Life): 'Incipit passio sancti Albani a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

213. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 10–28

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 10–28
Title:
Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis (Life of St Augustine of Canterbury), beginning: 'Anno siquidem millesimo quingentesimo lxxxxo sexto, sanctus episcopus Gregorius'. Decoration: One large initial 'A' for 'anno' at the beginning, in red and blue with penwork decoratio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

214. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 216–223

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 216–223
Title:
Annalistic chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 216r-223r: An annalistic chronicle including years with Roman numerals, ending in 1141. Much of the space remains unfilled; some has been filled by a later cursive hand (13th century). Decoration: Roman numerals in red. Letters highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

215. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 224–225

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 224–225
Title:
Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 224r-225r: A rental of Nailsbourne and Holway (f. 224r) followed by several memoranda. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

216. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 130–168

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 130–168
Title:
Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the Life of St Edward the Confessor by Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). This manuscript includes a table of chapters and prefatory letters addressed to King Henry II of England (r. 1154-1189) and Laurence, abbot of Westminster (d. 1173). All these text are listed in Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

217. Cotton MS Otho A XII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
Title:
Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

218. Cotton MS Otho B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:
Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

219. Cotton MS Otho D VIII, f 255

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho D VIII, f 255
Title:
Record of the peace made between Henry III and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd, 25 September 1267
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 255r-255v: Record of the peace made between King Henry III (r. 1216–1272) and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd (d. 1282), 25 September 1267. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho D VIII

220. Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 2–7

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 2–7
Title:
Calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, imperfect due to fire damage. Decoration: 20 of the originally 24 roundels with the Labours of the Month and Symbols of the Zodiac in blue, red and white, against a gold background in frames of blue and purple; several are damaged by fire. Partial (three-side...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho D VIII

221. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
Title:
Horologium; mass prayer
Scope & Content:
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

222. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174
Title:
Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 174r: a fragment from a Gospel of St John copied in the middle of the 10th century. f. 174v: a charter of William II, duke of Normandy (b. 1035, d. 1087), later King William I of England (r. 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, dated between 1063 and 1066 and copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century-2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

223. Cotton MS Tiberius B II, ff 2–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B II, ff 2–85
Title:
Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi; Herman the Archdeacon, Miracula Sancti Edmundi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-19v: Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi (Passion of St Edmund), beginning: 'Dorobernensium aecclesiae archiepiscopo Dunstano, vere moribus et aetate maturo'; ending: 'ut nos cum sibi digne famulantibus expiet a peccatis quibus meremur supplicium per eum qui vivit et regnat i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Tiberius B II

224. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 12–142

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 12–142
Title:
Benedictional
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 12r-142v: Benedictional. [ff. 87v and 142v are empty]. Decoration: 1 large initial (‘O’) in green with rosette-shaped foliate decoration in blue, green, ochre and red inside the letter (f. 12r). 1 large initial ‘D’ in green, pink and gold with a medium initial ‘S’ in purple ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

225. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 143–151

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 143–151
Title:
Sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 143r-151v: Middle English prayers: to male martyr-saints (f. 143r); confessors (f. 143v); St John the Baptist (f. 144r); the Apostles (f. 144v); Christ (f. 145r); the Holy Ghost (f. 145v); the Trinity (f. 146r); the Virgin Mary (f. 146v); St Michael the Archangel (f. 147r); the Gu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

226. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 152–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 152–203
Title:
Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 152r–203v: Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect). Decoration: Medium initials in red and green, sometimes with arabesque motifs. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

227. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

228. Cotton MS Tiberius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C III
Title:
Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect) ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

229. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1125-1225
Extent:
A parchment codex

230. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Vita S. Marie Magdalene (Life of St Mary Magdalene), continued from Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. ff. 1r-6v: Vita S. Audoeni (The Life of St Auduin). ff. 6v-9r: Gennadius of Marseilles (fl. late 5th century), Vita S. Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome). ff. 9r-10r: Pseudo-Sebasti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2

231. Cotton MS Titus A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XV
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume I)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

232. Cotton MS Titus A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVI
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

233. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 70r-111r

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 70r-111r
Title:
Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 70r-111r: Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam with some later annotations in the margins. Decoration: Pencil-drawing of a human face. Initials an rubrics in red. Some initials are highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

234. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 113r-128r

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 113r-128r
Title:
Vita Afrae Metrice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 113r-128r: Vita Afrae Metrice, usually attributed to 'Master Rufus'. Decoration: A decorated initial (f. 113r). Initials in red, blue and green.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

235. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

236. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30
Title:
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

237. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83
Title:
A fragment of a rental
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-83v: A fragment of a rental. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

238. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 84–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 84–125
Title:
Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; De Genealogia Regum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains the Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (The Life of Saint Edward the Confessor) and the De Genealogia Regum Anglorum (On the Genealogy of the Kings of England) by the English historian Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). The rest of the initial manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

239. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 138–144

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 138–144
Title:
A verse chronicle
Scope & Content:
This part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI contains an anonymous verse chronicle, originally in roll form. Contents: ff. 139r-144r: An anonymous verse-chronicle, with a later addition of a memorandum of the chronicle on ff. 139r-144r in a 17th-century hand. ff. 138r, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 143v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

240. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 145–158

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 145–158
Title:
A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Scope & Content:
Other portions of the same medieval manuscript are now Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff. 1, 205, Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 157–164, Cotton MS Cleopatra E I, ff. 184, 188, 312, and Cotton MS Cleopatra E IV, ff. 1, 475 Contents: ff. 145r-158v: A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

241. 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

242. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 83–163

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 83–163
Title:
Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae, Sermones; A theological note
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-112v: Hildebert of Lavardin (b. c. 1055, d. 1133), Epistulae (Letters). ff. 112v-114v: Hildebert of Lavardin, An untitled sermon, beginning: 'David futura spiritu previdens’. ff. 114v-125v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae. f. 125v: Hildebert of Lavardin, A poem about Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX

243. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XV
Title:
Pontifical, with medieval endleaves; a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, Sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, Homilia xx); Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

244. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 103–108

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 103–108
Title:
An account of the Council of Oxford of 1222
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 103r-108r: An account of the Council of Oxford of 1222, beginning: ‘Autoritate Dei patris omnipotentis et beate Virginis Marie’. [f. 108v is blank]. Decoration: Numerous large initials in brown and red. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

245. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 109–116

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 109–116
Title:
Cyprian of Antioch, Confessio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 109r-116v: Cyprian of Antioch (fl. 300), Confessio (Confession), beginning: ‘Quicumque in Christi misterus proficius meis intendite lacrimis’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red and brown. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

246. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 117–170

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 117–170
Title:
Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Saeculi; Alexander of Stainsby, Constitutiones; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 117r-123v: Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem (Admonition to a Spiritual Son), beginning: ‘Audi fili admonitionem patris tui et inclina aurem tuam’. ff. 124r-138v: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Synonyma (Synonyms), preceded by a prologue (f. 124r), beginning: ‘In subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

247. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 171–178

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 171–178
Title:
Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 171r-178v: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem (The Barons’ Insult against King John), beginning: ‘Mater cum omnibus'. Decoration: Numerous small large initials in red and blue, some with pen-flourishing. Numerous large initials in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

248. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213
Title:
Reginald of Canterbury, Vita S. Malchi; Carmina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 179r-213v: Reginald of Canterbury (d. c. 1112), Vita Sancti Malchi (Life of St Malchus), preceded by a prologue (f. 179r) and followed by Carmina (Poems), beginning: ‘Prelia gesturus’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, green and blue. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

249. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, f 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, f 3
Title:
Computistical memoranda
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 3r: Computistical memoranda. [f. 3v is blank]. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

250. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107
Title:
Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 87r-97v: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii (1175), with an introduction on f. 87r, beginning: ‘Sepe [auctorum] volumina qui de compoto vel principaliter’; the treatise on ff. 87r-97v, beginning: 'Compotus est scientia commensurandi tempora mediis motibus solis et lunae'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

251. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135
Title:
Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104), canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of short poems [including: Versus Serlonis Parisiacensis ad Muriel Sanctimonialem Virginem [Muriel, sister of Odo (d. 1097), Bishop of Bayeux]; Ad Virginem Deo Dicatam Versus; Incipiunt Vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

252. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:
Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

253. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:
Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

254. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10
Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

255. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141
Title:
Medical recipes copied by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
These folios contain medical notes and recipes copied by William Harvey (b. 1578, d. 1657), the physician who discovered the circulation of blood. Contents: ff. 139-141: Medical notes and recipes, copied by William Harvey. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

256. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84
Title:
Adam Marsh, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the largest collection of letters of Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco (d. 1259), a Franciscan friar and biblical scholar. The last letter ends imperfectly. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red or brown (f. 26r, 61v). Text in three columns (f. 57r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd third of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

257. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 143–156

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 143–156
Title:
Domesday abbreviation for Kent
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a 12th-century copy of an abbreviation of the Domesday survey of Kent. These membranes originally formed a roll, but have been cut apart and rearranged in book form (see Clarke, 'Condensing and Abbreviating' (2016), p. 258). Contents: ff. 143r-156r: Domesday abbreviation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

258. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212
Title:
Jocelin of Furness, Vita sancti Kentigerni
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the earlier of two surviving copies of Jocelin of Furness's Vita sancti Kentigerni (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 4646. It was copied in the late 12th-century. Contents: ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

259. 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

260. Cotton Roll I 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll I 11
Title:
Copy of a lease of Elizabeth I to John Wyngard of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster
Scope & Content:
m. 1-3: Copy of a lease from Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603) to John Wyngard, groom of the Wardrobe, of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster for a term of 30 years. Given at Westminster, 10 October 1588. m. 4: Notes on the later descent of the land down to 1614.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 roll

261. Cotton Roll III 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll III 5
Title:
List of English religious houses to be suppressed
Scope & Content:
A list of the English religious houses to be suppressed, recording 120 religious houses, organised by county, including those to whom the properties were to be granted. This was the official list of English religious houses to be dissolved following the first Suppression Act of March 1536 (27 He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536
Extent:
1 roll

262. Cotton Roll IV 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll IV 6
Title:
Grants relating to the foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford
Scope & Content:
Recto: 1. Grant of John Giffard, lord of Bremesfield, to the Priory of St John and Benedict, Oxford, of all the land and tenements he holds in Stockwell Street in the suburb of Oxford, which he had by the enfeoffment of William de Haunle, prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 roll

263. Cotton Roll IV 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll IV 61
Title:
Manifesto of George, duke of Clarence, George Neville, archbishop of York, and Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, in their rebellion against Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Manifesto of George, duke of Clarence (1449-1478), George Neville, archbishop of York (1465-1476), and Richard Neville (1428-71), 16th earl of Warwick, issued as part of their rebellion against King Edward IV in 1469, beginning imperfectly. The text complains about seditious persons misleading ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 roll

264. Cotton Roll XIV 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIV 8
Title:
Year-long menu for Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
A year-long lunch and dinner menu for Princess Mary Tudor (later Mary I), daughter of Henry VIII, beginning with the dishes for Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Night, and then listing the menu for each day of the week and for fish days. The menu is divided into six columns. The first...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1531
Extent:
1 roll

265. Cotton Roll XIV 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIV 12
Title:
Universal roll chronicle
Scope & Content:
This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIV 12. Order as Cotton Roll XIV 12. Contents: A Universal Roll Chronicle consisting of excerpts from historical texts, genealogical and other diagrams, tables and commentaries. Face of the roll: Membrane 1: A text on the Four Ages ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

266. Cotton Roll XV 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XV 8
Title:
The Camden Roll
Scope & Content:
An original 13th-century English roll of arms, containing 270 painted coats of arms with 185 blazons for various English and European monarchs, lords and knights. Known as 'The Camden Roll' after its former owner, William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), antiquarian and Clarenceux King of Arms. The r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
c 1280
Extent:
1 roll

267. Cotton Roll XVI 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XVI 22
Title:
Case in the Court of the Exchequer for a process of pardon for alienating property in Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Draft of a case in the Court of the Exchequer for a process of pardon of alienation of the manor of Brampton, a messuage, and lands in Yorkshire, conveyed by Hugh Childers to Dame Isabella Foster, widow of Sir John Foster, knight. Trinity term 1633.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1633
Extent:
1 roll

268. EAP696/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP696/1/2
Title:
Dobrogea
Scope & Content:
Birbirine bağlı üç sayı. Kadınların eğitimi, Türk-Yunan Savaşı, diplomatik ilişkiler ve Musul meselesi üzerinedir. Three issues bound together. Focussing on women's education, the Turkish-Greek War, diplomatic relations, and the Mosul issue. Date of issue(s): (Hijri) 24 Rabiulevvel 1338; 30 Ra...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17 Dec 1919-16 Jan 1923
Extent:
6 tiff images

269. EAP696/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP696/1/6
Title:
مصادمه افكار
Scope & Content:
Birbirine bağlı beş sayıdan oluşan pazartesi günleri çıkar siyasi gazetedir. İkinci Boer Savaşı, toprak dağılımı, siyasi, askeri ve ekonomik hakimiyet arayışı, güç ilişkileri üzerinedir. A political newspaper published on Mondays. Five issues bound together on the Second Boer War; land acquisit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
7 Dec 1898-5 Jan 1899
Extent:
20 tiff images

270. EAP696/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP696/1/7
Title:
رغبت
Scope & Content:
Birbirine bağlı üç sayıdan oluşan, pazartesi günleri çıkar Osmanlı siyasi gazetedir. Müsademe-i Efkar gazetesinin devamı niteliğindedir. Dergi, İkinci Boer Savaşı; savaş halindeki ülkeler arasındaki müttefikler ve ittifaklar; Avrupalı Müslümanların durumu; Balkan devletlerinin (Bulgaristan, Roma...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
23 Dec 1899-23 Jan 1900
Extent:
12 tiff images

271. EAP696/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP696/1/10
Title:
طوغرو صدا
Scope & Content:
Haftada bir defa çıkar sıhhi, ictimai, iktisadi, bitaraf Türk gazetesidir. Yayın alkolizm (alkolün zararları, İslam'da alkol, alkol ve aile hayatı); eğitim (eğitimin önemi, Bulgaristan'dan Türkiye'ye eğitim için gönderilen geri dönen öğrenciler; eğitim talebindeki artış, köylerde pedagoji kursla...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1 Jun 1927-20 Jul 1927
Extent:
14 tiff images

272. EAP696/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP696/1/12
Title:
Арда
Scope & Content:
Haftada bir defa çıkar bitaraf, siyasi, ictimai, halkçı Türk gazetesidir. Dergide Türkçe yazılmış birkaç yazı da bulunmaktadır. Filibe'deki Zarafet Matbaası'nda tab olunmuştur. Dergide; Türk millî inkılapları, millî dil meselesi, Rodoplarda yaşayan Türklerin okullarında Türk harfleriyle alacağı ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bulgarian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1 Jul 1922
Extent:
30 tiff images

273. EAP1031/4/1/36

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1031/4/1/36
Title:
উরোপের শিল্প-কথা
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali
Date Range:
23 Apr 1905
Extent:
161 tiff images

274. EAP1256/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1256/1/6
Title:
Nkhani Za Dowa
Scope & Content:
Nkhani za Dowa is a newspaper that was published from 1951. The contect of the Newspaper was mainly in the local Nyaja language and its main purpose was to keep locals updated on events happening within Nyasaland and Dowa as a District. It carried alot of stories on local Governance and Agricult...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Chichewa, English, and Yao
Date Range:
1951-1962
Extent:
729

275. Egerton Ch 434

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 434
Title:
Grant by Alexandria, daughter of Ralph fitz Bernard to Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Alexandria daughter of Ralph fitz Bernard, with the consent of Robert de Herierbi and her son William, to Stixwould Priory [Lincolnshire], of all her dowry after her husband Robert and her son William are dead. When Alexandria dies, the priory will receive her body as if she were a memb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

276. Egerton MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2622
Title:
Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

277. Egerton MS 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2658
Title:
The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of four surviving copies of the Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel Nicodemus (the others are Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 895, Stonyhurst College MS xliii, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 207). The text is a narrative of the Passion and Resurr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

278. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

279. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

280. Egerton MS 2864

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2864
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes; Chronicle of the Saints and Kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning, 'Incipit Liber Galstid Chaucer de gestis peregrinor[um] versus Cantuariam', with extensive glossing and marginal headings in Latin and Middle English. Over 50 of the glosses also appear in Add MS 5140. The Tales are arra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

281. Egerton MS 2901

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2901
Title:
Collectio Francofortana with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous collection of papal decretals known as Collectio Francofortana (The Frankfurt Collection) with marginal glosses. This is one of the only four surviving copies of the Collectio Francofortana. The manuscript was produced either in France or England, but it was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

282. Egerton MS 2951/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2951/1
Title:
Medieval binding
Scope & Content:
Contents: Former covers of Egerton MS 2951, now kept separately. The covers consist of a folded bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript of the Gospel of St John; the bifolium contains chapters 9-10 with glosses. Decoration: Large initial in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Former covers of Egerton MS 2951

283. Egerton MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3874
Title:
Detached leaf, possibly from an artist's patternbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf believed to have formed part of an artist's patternbook. The recto of the leaf features two drawings, one depicting a swan wearing a crown around its neck attached to a ringed chain, the other depicting four cranes attacking a frog. The verso ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:

1 leaf

284. Harley Ch 43 B 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 B 7
Title:
Grant by Margaret, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of property in Awlham (?) and Fordham
Scope & Content:
Grant by Margaret (1187x1195-1259), sister of the king of Scots, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of all her lands, people and service which she held by gift of her husband Hubert de Burgh (c. 1170-1243), once earl of Kent, in the vills of Awlham (?) and Fordham. Date based on the deaths of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1243-1249
Extent:
1 leaf

285. Harley Ch 44 C 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 C 2
Title:
Release by Isabella, prioress of Cheshunt, to John Warren of 10s in quit rent
Scope & Content:
Release by Isabella, prioress of Cheshunt [Hertfordshire], to John Warren of 10s in quit rent from 40s annual rent from his tenement in Thames Street, St Botolph Billingsgate parish, London; given 26 December 1474. Affixed with a fragmentary seal of Isabella, lozenge, red, with the Virgin and C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1474
Extent:
1 leaf

286. Harley Ch 44 E 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 E 16
Title:
Release by Elizabeth, prioress of Hampole Priory, of 30s in rents
Scope & Content:
Release by Elizabeth, prioress of Hampole Priory [Yorkshire], of 30s from Lady Alice Broun, guardian of the lands and heir of John Fitzwilliam, once of Atwick [Yorkshire], from rents in Alnwick [Northumberland]; given the feast of St John the Evangelist [27 December] 1505. Affixed with an imper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1505
Extent:

1 leaf

287. Harley Ch 44 F 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 F 36
Title:
Release by Dorothy, abbess of the Poor Clares without Aldgate, to the prior of New Place Church, Surrey
Scope & Content:
Release by Dorothy, abbess of the Abbey of Poor Clares without Aldgate, to the prior of the Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr in New Place, Surrey, of 4s rent from lands and tenements in Old Fish Street, the parish of St Nicholas Coldabbey, London; given 8 November 1524. Aff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1524
Extent:
1 leaf

288. Harley Ch 45 A 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 A 37
Title:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton
Scope & Content:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton, Wiltshire, over multiple generations, from Renaud of Ramsbury down to Walter and Margery. If Robert, Margery’s heir, has no heirs of his own, it shall revert back to the heirs of Renaud.Followed by certifi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1376
Extent:
1 leaf

289. Harley Ch 45 B 27

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 B 27
Title:
Grant by Elias d'Aubigny, Hawise, his fiancé, and Oliver and Ralph, her sons, to Newsham Abbey, of a share in Saxilby Church and land in Driholm
Scope & Content:
Grant by Elias d'Aubigny, Hawise, his fiancé, and Oliver and Ralph, her sons, to Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire, of a third of Saxilby Church, Lincolnshire, and 20 acres of meadow in Driholm, Lincolnshire; addressed to Lincoln Cathedral Priory. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Carta de T[er]rcia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

290. Harley Ch 45 B 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 B 30
Title:
Grant by Isabel d'Aubigny to Master Henry of Chesham of land and tenements in Cotes
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabel d'Aubigny (de Albiniaco) to Master Henry of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, for his homage and service, of all of her land and tenements in Cotes, Bedfordshire. In return, Henry acquits her of her debt to Aaron of York (d. 1268), a Jew. Endorsed: in a late 13th-century hand, ‘Confirma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

291. Harley Ch 45 E 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 E 33
Title:
Confirmation by Matilda de Auberville, to the monks of Boxley Abbey, of her marsh in Kent
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Matilda de Auberville, with the advice and consent of Hugh, her son, to the monks of Boxley Abbey, Kent, of all her marsh from the watermill in Sandwich to the land of Woodnesborough, Kent. Witnesses include: William, abbot of Robertsbridge (fl. 1194-1222), and Dunstan, prior of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

292. Harley Ch 47 H 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 47 H 37
Title:
Grant by Sibylla of Calna to Hugh de Marens of land in Burnham
Scope & Content:
Grant by Sibylla of Calna to Hugh de Marens, for his homage and service, of 14 acres of land in Burnham. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘de Walt[er]o filio Bernardi’. Affixed with an imperfect seal of Sibylla, lozenge, cream, with a full-length image of Sibylla in a long dress and cloak, he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

293. Harley Ch 50 B 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 50 B 23
Title:
Confirmation by Liece, daughter of Ralph of Rouen, of a grant made by her mother to Southwark Priory
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Liece, daughter of Ralph of Rouen, of the grant made by Mary daughter of Laurence, her mother, to Southwark Priory, Surrey, with the consent of William, her son and heir, of half a mark of silver from land in Bedford, for the souls of her father, her brother Laurence, and her anc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

294. Harley Ch 50 B 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 50 B 33
Title:
Confirmation by Cecily, daughter of Sabeline, of a grant of rent made to Southwark Priory in 'Selda'
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Cecily, daughter of Sabeline, of the grant made by Adam the merchant (mercennarii) to Southwark Priory, Surrey, of half a mark of rent in 'Selda', in return for the priory giving 5 marks of silver to Cecily and 1 gold bezant each to Geoffrey, Laurence and John, her sons. Endorse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

295. Harley Ch 50 F 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 50 F 32
Title:
Confirmation by Rohais, countess of Lincoln, of a grant by Ralph son of Gilbert to Kirkstead Abbey of land in Scampton
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Rohais, countess of Lincoln and wife of Gilbert de Gant [c. 1120-1156], earl of Lincoln, of a grant by Ralph son of Gilbert to Kirkstead Abbey [Lincolnshire], of land in Scampton [Lincolnshire], which had been given to Rohais in dowry. Addressed to Robert [de Chesney, r. 1148-116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1149-1156
Extent:
1 leaf

296. Harley Ch 51 B 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 51 B 21
Title:
Quitclaim by Alice of Haketorn, widow of Alexander Foliot, to Bullington Priory
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Alice of Haketorn, widow of Alexander [text damaged]-oth, to Bullington Priory [Lincolnshire], of land in the meadows. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Confirmacio Alicie uxoris / Alex[andri] Folioth in viduitate sua / d[e] dono viti sui. In Hach’. Affixed with an imperfect seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

297. Harley Ch 52 C 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 52 C 48
Title:
Confirmation by Sibylla of Calna, widow, to Robert son of Richard of Derneford, of a grant by Beatrice Malherbe
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Sibylla of Calna, widow, to Robert son of Richard of Derneford, of a grant by Beatrice Malherbe, widow of Robert Malherbe and daughter of William Black, to Robert son of Richard of Derneford, of all the land with appurtenances which she held in Little Stanbridge [Sussex]. Endors...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

298. Harley Ch 52 G 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 52 G 44
Title:
Grant by Hawisa, daughter of Philip de Kima, to Bullington Priory, of land in Harmston
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawisa, daughter of Philip de Kima, to Bullington Priory [Lincolnshire], of half an acre of land and four furrows of the same land in Harmston [Lincolnshire]. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Carta Hawise de Kam[a] / de molendino de H[arm]est[on].’ Affixed with a seal of Hawisa, red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

299. Harley Ch 53 B 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 53 B 12
Title:
Grant by Ela, countess of Salisbury, to Nicholas Longspée, her son, of the manor of Edgware
Scope & Content:
Grant by Ela, countess of Salisbury, to Nicholas Longspée, her son, of the manor of Edgware, Middlesex, with appurtenances and whatever he is able to accrue in the vill of Colinges. Date based on the death of Ela's husband, William Longspée, earl of Salisbury (d. 1226), and her entering Lacock A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1226-1237
Extent:

1 leaf

300. Harley Ch 54 B 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 54 B 26
Title:
Grant by Walter de Neville and Cecily, his wife, to Bullington Priory of a fishpond
Scope & Content:
Grant by Walter de Neville and Cecily, his wife, to Bullington Priory [Lincolnshire] of a fishpond [piscaria] in Ancolme near the priory’s grange of Tunstall [Lincolnshire] to support their infirmary. Endorsed: in the same hand, ‘Carta Walt[e]ri de Nevill[e] / de una piscaria i[n] Ancolne / In ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

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