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1311. Cotton MS Otho D II

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

1312. Cotton MS Titus D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D IV
Title:
Thomas More's coronation suite; a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis
Scope & Content:
A composite volume in three parts, put together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631), containing: (1) the presentation copy of Thomas More's coronation ode; (2) a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; (3) Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis. Contents: Cottonian endleaves: ff. i–ii: Parc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-1st half 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1313. Cotton MS Faustina A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A XI
Title:
Discourse on the marriage of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and Lady Katherine Grey
Scope & Content:
Discourse on the subject of the 1560 secret marriage between Edward Seymour, first earl of Hertford (1539?–1621), courtier, and Katherine Seymour, [née Grey], countess of Hertford (1540?–1568), noblewoman and royal kinswoman. With a list of the commissioners in the case, and notes on conflicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561
Extent:
1 volume

1314. 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

1315. Cotton MS Galba C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba C II
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1564–1567
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1564-1567. ff. 2r-3r Notes by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Titled ‘A memorial for things appertaining to the colloquy’. 1565. ff. 4r-17v Articles titled ‘A collection of certain reasons which may be used in the question of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1564-1567
Extent:
1 volume.

1316. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1317. Cotton MS Claudius E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E I
Title:
Theological tracts, including Anselm of Canterbury's treatises, Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum; Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce; Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Liber Esdrae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-12v: St Augustine, De Genesi Contra Manicheos (On the Genesis, against Manicheans). ff. 12v-26r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum (On the works of the six days). ff. 26r-33v; 146r-147r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce (On the six words of God on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1318. Cotton MS Caligula D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula D VII
Title:
Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1518–1520
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–256v: A volume of records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1518–1520, including items sent by King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) and Francis I (1515–1547). f. 1r: Note about the volume. ff. 2r–4v: Original letter in Latin from Étienne de Poncher, Bishop of Paris; hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1319. Cotton MS Otho B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:
Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

1320. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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