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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:: Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1420
Extent:: A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D I
Title:: Matthew Paris, Liber additamentorum
Scope & Content:: Matthew Paris, Liber additamentorum, a collection of original literary treatises and historical documents he assembled to support his research, rearranged in the 14th century (with later additions) and by Sir Robert Cotton. f. 1r: Notes related to the contents of the manuscript in a 17th-centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1259
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
Title:: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough.
Scope & Content:: This codex contains: f. 1r: an early modern table of contents and notes; f. 2r: a Cottonian frontispiece; ff. 3r- 86v: the 'D' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, mostly written in the 11th century with some 16th-century supply leaves; ff. 87r-v: two writs of King Cnut for 1035; ff. 88r-9...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 11th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
Title:: Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1405-c 1430
Extent:: 288 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius A II
Title:: The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript consists of 3 separate items: ff. 1r-1v: A cutting from the Breviary of Margaret of York; ff. 2r-2v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 3r-218v: The four Gospels with prefatory texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 9th century-4th quarter 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex consisting of 3 items: 218 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B II
Title:: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B V
Title:: 11th-century collection of computistical, astronomical, geographical and historical texts and Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of 5 separate items bound together in two volumes: Cotton Tiberius B V/1 includes: ff. 2-73, 77-88: A collection of computistical, historical and astronomical texts, including maps and diagrams; f. 74: Documents relating to Ely Abbey; f. 75: Leaf of a Gospel-book in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 700-1350
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D IX
Title:: Antoine de La Sale (Salle), Le Petit Jehan de Saintré; Rasse de Brunhamel, Floridan et Elvide
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r–108r: Antoine de La Sale or Salle (b. c. 1398, d. c. 1461), Le Petit Jean de Saintré, a didactic romance about the adventures of the hero, Jean, at the court of King John of France, and of his lady, the Dame des Belles Cousines, who teaches him how to become the perfect knight...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Galba A XVIII
Title:: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts. A Cottonian composite frontispiece, from the Breviary of Margaret of York.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 2r: Cottonian composite frontispiece, formed of cuttings from two devotional manuscripts, pasted to the back of the first folio of the following item. f. 2v-200v: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan' or ‘Gal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Caligula B VII
Title:: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–513v: A volume of original documents and copies concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556, several of which relate to a potential marriage between Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: Title page. ff. 2r–v, 3v: Original letter from Dr Magnus to Cardinal Wolsey, reporting that he ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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