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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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius F VI
Title:: Historical and topographical collections, 1529-1640
Scope & Content:: Collection of historical letters and papers, principally from the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. From the collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Partly assembled by Cotton and William Camden (1551–1623), historian an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1529-1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A X/2
Title:: Four anonymous poems in Middle English: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, consecutively numbered, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Biblio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A XIV
Title:: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse); On god ureisun of ure lefdi and other prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: (in Middle English): ff. 1r–120v: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) (Boffey 734.5, 3568); ff. 120v–131r: On god ureisun of ure lefdi (ff. 120v-123v; Boffey 631) and other prayers; (in Latin): ff. 131r-v: Apostles’ Creed. f. 131v: A verse beginning ‘O quam iocundum quam dulce for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero B I
Title:: Records and papers concerning England and Portugal, 1373–1604
Scope & Content:: Collection of records and papers concerning England and Portugal, dating from between 1373 and 1604. Including letters by Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine; King João I of Portugal (1385–1433); King João III of Portugal (1521–1577); and William Cecil, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1378-1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero B VII
Title:: Records and papers concerning England and Italy, 1371-1612
Scope & Content:: Records and papers concerning England and Italy, 1371-1612. Including letters of Andrea Gritti, doge of Venice (1523-1538); Marino Grimani, doge of Venice (1595-1606); and King Charles V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556, d. 1558). f. 1r: Title-page. f. 2r: Letter from King Henry VI of E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1371-1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II
Title:: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle of Battle Abbey, miscellaneous historical and heraldic texts, Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones, Jean Froissart, Chroniques.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: f. 1v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 2r–214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory to 1377; ff 215r–216v: Annalistic chronicle to1089 (imperfect); ff. 217r–v: List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, imperfect f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c.1100-c.1650
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 11 items

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