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771. 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

772. Cotton MS Galba B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B VI
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1518–1521
Scope & Content:
Collection of records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, dating from between 1518 and 1521. f. 1r: Cottonian title-page. f. 2r-2v: Letter from King Charles of Castile to Thomas Wolsey. Recommending his ambassador, de Lachaulx, dispatched to King Henry VIII. Brussels, February 11 [1522...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1518-1521
Extent:
1 volume

773. Cotton MS Galba B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B VIII
Title:
Correspondence and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1514–1525
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other records concerning England and Burgundy, 1514–1525, including letters in the hands of Charles V, King of Spain (1516–1556) and Holy Roman emperor (1519–1556; d. 1558), and Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), lord chancellor, humanist and martyr. f. 1r: Cottonian title-page. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1514-1525
Extent:
1 volume

774. Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-186v) was produced at Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in the 1st half of the 14th century. It contains the Register of Henry of Eastry, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (b. 1285, d. 1331). The second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex

775. Cotton MS Julius A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): ff. 2-9: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect), 1st quarter of the 12th century; ff. 10-135: Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v: imperfect), Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v); a grammatical treatise,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-11th century to 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

776. Cotton MS Julius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VI
Title:
A calendar, computistical texts and tables, Expositio Hymnorum, canticles and poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two discrete parts, which were joined together in the medieval period. One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical material. The second part (ff. 18r–80v) contains an early version of the Expositio Hymnorum (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

777. Cotton MS Julius A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VII
Title:
Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum; verse miscellanies; Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba, etc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 9 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) ff. 3–54: Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum, AD 1000–...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter 13th century-2nd half 15th century
Extent:

i + 134 folios

778. Cotton MS Julius A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A X
Title:
Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes: f. 1: early modern table of contents. ff. 2-43: a Latin account of the life and miracles of St Oswine, possibly copied in Tyneside in the 12th or 13th century. There are two blank, unfoliated leaves between folio 43 and folio 44. ff. 44-175: an imperfect copy of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th century- early 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

779. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

780. Cotton MS Julius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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