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12. Cotton MS Nero D VIII
- 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
13. 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
14. Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII
- Title:
- New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- f. 2r: Extracts from liturgical prayers with commemorations of patriarchs and abbots with no names with a later, 13th-century hand. f. 2v: List of liturgical canticles (prokimena) ff. 3r-230v: New Testament Lectionary (Apostol) Decoration: Illuminated initials and decorated headpieces.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
15. 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
16. Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 3r–200r: A volume of records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579, including the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots, and drawings by John Dunstall (ff. 73r–75r), including 'Certaine Emblemes upon a clock of the Q. of Scots' (f. 74r). ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1575-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
17. Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2r–330v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575. Includes the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587); the instructions issued by Sir William Drury (d. 1579), High Marshal of Berwick and General of Her Majesty’s Force...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, and French
- Date Range:
- 1573-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
18. Cotton MS Faustina C I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina C I
- Title:
- Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750; The Rule of St Benedict
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of three independent parts that were joined together in the 17th century, The first part (ff. 2r-65r) contains a late 14th-century cartulary of Huntingdon Priory, featuring texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. The second part (ff. 66r-93v), written at the ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century-Mid 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
19. Cotton MS Augustus III/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus III/2
- Title:
- A collection of prints from or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the second and larger part of a collection of engravings and woodcuts of ancient Roman architecture and art as it was found in 16th-century Rome (the first part is found in Cotton MS Augustus III/1). The collection features prints by Dutch, French, German and Italian art...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1515-c 1602
- Extent:
- 1 volume
20. Cotton MS Nero A XIV
- 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