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251. Cotton MS Vespasian C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C IV
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, 1527-1529
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, between January 1527 and December 1529. Principally correspondence of Thomas Wolsey (1470/71–1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal, and Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland, with some papers of Charles V (1500-1558...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1527-1529
Extent:
1 volume

252. Cotton MS Vespasian C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C VI
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, 1154-1603
Scope & Content:
Records and papers (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain. From the reigns of King Henry II (1154–1189) to Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) of England, including: records of the Spanish government, 1574–1577 (5r–178v); ordinance of King Philip II of Spain (1556–1598) concerning ti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1154-1603
Extent:
1 volume

253. Cotton MS Vespasian C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C VIII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and transcripts) concerning Anglo-Spanish relations, 1587-1603
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of transcripts and original documents. A number of documents are identified as gifts, or translations from the papers of, the Spanish Ambassador (Gondomar) in 1615 ((ff. 11*r, 276r-v, 281r-284r, 289r-293v). Some of the documents probably came from Robert Beale. The document...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1587-1631
Extent:
1 volume

254. Cotton MS Vespasian C XVI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C XVI/1
Title:
The draft will of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1577
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–7v: The draft will of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587), written by her secretary, Claude Nau, and with her autograph notes, February 1577, Sheffield. In French. This item was removed and bound separately from Cotton MS Vespasian C XVI in 1855.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1577
Extent:
1 volume

255. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

256. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125
Title:
Stephen, Vita Sancti Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

257. Cotton MS Vespasian D X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D X
Title:
A collection of chronicles and historical material including Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum and Ralph Niger, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chronicles and other historical material copied in the 13th to the 16th centuries, bound together in the early modern period from three formerly separate parts (see Tite: The Early Records (2003), p. 183). ff. 1-3: Flyleaves with lists of contents in an early modern hand; ff. 4-39:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1549
Extent:

A parchment codex

258. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 2
Title:
Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D. xii.

259. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 157
Title:
Fragment of a missal
Scope & Content:
f. 157: Leaf of a Missal including a fragment for an office of St Nectan.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D. xii.

260. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, [f 1]

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, [f 1]
Title:
Psalter leaf
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-1360
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 13 D. i*.

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