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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D VIII
Title:: Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 3-175: A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum (4th quarter of the 12th century); ff. 176-344: Historical and scientific texts, including the Polychro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century -16th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, consisting of 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho D II
Title:: A collection of travellers' accounts of the East, including La Fleur des Histoires de la terre d'Orient, translated by Jean d'Ypres; Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine
Scope & Content:: Contents: Six texts on the Orient, including a set of letters, compiled and translated into French in 1351 by Jean d'Ypres or Jean le Long, Abbot of St Bertin from 1365 to 1383 (ff. 1-85v); Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ff. 86r-150v). The foliation for the contents is that of the re-mounte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Middle
Date Range:: 1400-1415
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho E IX
Title:: Papers and letters on maritime affairs, including the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:: Papers and letters relating to the Admiralty, Navy and shipping, 1513-1634. Including a report by Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) of the raid on Cadiz, 1587, letters of Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham (1536-1624), Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), and items conce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1513-1634
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho E VIII
Title:: Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, 1553-1613
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, dating from 1553 to 1613. Including items concerning Sir Richard Hawkins (c. 1560–1622), naval officer; Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618), courtier, explorer, and author; Sir Hugh Willoughby (d. 1554?), sea captain; Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), merchant a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1553-1613
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
Title:: Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 11th -15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2
Title:: Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Coronation Book of Charles V (r. 1364–1380), King of France, comprising the French coronation order commissioned by him in 1365 (see his colophon on f. 74v). The order was subsequently supplemented with texts of several oaths, probably sometime...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1365-1380
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IX
Title:: João de Castro, Roteiro do Mar Roxo
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius E I/1
Title:: John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–5v: List of contents; ff. 6r–13r: Sts Edward the Confessor; ff. 13r–14r: Wulsin (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 8754); ff. 14r–15v: Adrian (BHL 3741); ff. 15v–17v: Aelred of Rievaulx (BHL 2645); ff. 17v–22v: Kentigern (BHL 4648); ff. 22v–25r: Fursey (BHL 3218); ff. 25r–26v: Henry the he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius E I/2
Title:: John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r: Sts Petroc (Bibliotheca Hagiogrphica Latina 6640), continued from the previous volume; ff. 1r–3v: Boniface (BHL 1406); ff. 3v–4v: Gudwal (BHL 3690); ff. 4v–6v: Robert of Newminster (BHL 7269); ff. 6v–7v: William of York (BHL 8910); ff. 7v–10r: Columba (BHL 1891); ff. 10r–11v: Ivo (BHL 46...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

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