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21. Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII
Title:
Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, 1611
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments of five leaves from a journal recording an English account of a voyage to the East Indies in 1611, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. The names of ships mentioned in the journal include the 'Release', the 'Darling' and the 'Peppercorn',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. 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

23. Cotton MS Faustina F X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F X
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (fragments, including entries for the years 1573–1587, 1589–1592)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; English (250v, 252r, 254r–256r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. 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

25. Cotton MS Fragments XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
Title:
John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1525-1530
Extent:
1 volume

26. 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

27. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho B V
Scope & Content:
These two fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Otho B V, 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 contains a 14th-century copy of the Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History), written by the Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

2 fragments

28. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/5
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Tiberius E I
Scope & Content:
These 12 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Tiberius E I, 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 the only surviving copy of the Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
12 fragments

29. 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

30. 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

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