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42. Cotton MS Augustus II 12
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 12
- Title:
- Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to Thorney Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- King Edgar grants privileges and confirms land to Thorney Abbey at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire; Water Newton, Woodston, Yaxley and Farcet, Huntingdonshire; Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire; Teafolscet; and two hides (mansae) at Huntingdon; dated 973, spurious (Sawyer, no. 792).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
43. Cotton MS Augustus II 23
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 23
- Title:
- Grant of King Æthelstan of England (r. 924–939) to Ealdwulf, minister
- Scope & Content:
- King Æthelstan grants 12 hides (mansae) at Meopham, Kent, to Ealdwulf, minister: dated 939, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 447). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘+ Þis is meaphames land boc þe. æþelstan cing gebocode. ealdulfe his þegne on ece yrfe.’; and in a 12th-century hand, ‘Ethelstanus...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 939
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
44. Cotton MS Augustus II 65
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 65
- Title:
- Grant of King Æthelstan of England (r. 924–939) to Ælfwald, minister
- Scope & Content:
- King Æthelstan of England grants 12 hides (cassati) at Durrington, Sussex, to Ælfwald, minister: dated 28 May 934, Winchester, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 425).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 934
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
45. Cotton MS Augustus II 81
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 81
- Title:
- Writ of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) for Westminster Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- Writ of King Edward declaring that, with his permission, Leofsi Duddessunu has given land at Wormley, Hertfordshire, to Westminster Abbey; 1053 × 1066, probably 1057 × 1066 (Sawyer, no. 1134). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Wrmelea’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- Mid 12th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
46. Cotton MS Caligula C I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C I
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1567–1570
- Scope & Content:
- Much of this volume relates to the exile of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1567; d. 1587), and including the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots; Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Catherine de Medici, Queen Dowager of France (d. 1589); Sir William Cecil (later 1st Baron Burghley, d. 1598); ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
- Date Range:
- 1567-1631
- Extent:
- 1 volume.
47. Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1
- Title:
- Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23, iii.25, imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains two folios from St Augustine of Hippo's De consensu evangelistarum, copied in England in the second half of the 8th century.These 2 folios were formerly folded and used separately as flyleaves in Cotton Vitellius A XIX and Cotton Cleopatra A III. They were removed from the ma...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 8th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
48. Cotton MS Appendix LVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Appendix LVI
- Title:
- St Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (imperfect); Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Celestianos; Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, De Processione Spiritus Sancti; Pope Paschal II, Epistolae; A record of the primacy of Canterbury, 1072; Acts of the Council of Rome, 1112; 'Aethicus Ister', Cosmographia; Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Leaf of a Psalter; Medieval endleaf; Book of Genesis,...
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains seven parts (ff. 1-4; ff. 5-60; ff. 61-90; ff. 91-111; f. 112; f. 113; ff. 114-122) that were most likely produced at different locations in England and in different periods of time. These parts were joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
49. Cotton MS Augustus II 31
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 31
- Title:
- Grant of King Æthelstan of England (r. 924–939) to the bishopric of Crediton
- Scope & Content:
- King Æthelstan grants privileges to the bishopric of Crediton in return for 60 pounds of silver; dated 933 (Sawyer, no. 421). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘Libertas totius Cridiensis æclesiæ episcopatus.’; in a 13th-century hand, ‘Libertas totius cridianensis episcopatus concessa eaddulfo e...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
50. Cotton MS Galba A XIV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Galba A XIV
- Title:
- Prayer book, including computus tables and medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents by Richard James (d. 1638). f. 1v: Blank f. 2r–v: Computus tables, ‘Incipit computatio Grecorum de mensibus anni … Omnes uero menses octo idus habent.’ ff. 3r–4v: Prayer to God the Father, ‘Domine deus omnipotens rex regum … in aduersariis meis domine deus ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
