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Cotton MS Julius B II
- Record Id:
- 040-001101642
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003dc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius B II
- Title:
- Chronicle of the city of London, AD 1189–1434/5 (3r–88v, 101r); John Lydgate, On the entry of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) in London, 1432 (89r–100v: Boffey 3799)
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): Latin and Middle English (3r–88v, 101r); Middle English (89r–100v)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101642 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius B II : Chronicle of the city of London, AD 1189–1434/5 (3r–88v, 101r); John Lydgate, On the entry of King Henry VI of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0013]/040-001101642
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment (ff. 1–2, i–iii, 102); paper (ff. 3–101)
Dimensions: approximately 310 × 230 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 102 + ii; 2 + i (ff. 1–2, i: early modern endleaves) + 99 (ff. 3–101) + ii + 1 (ff. ii–iii, 102: early modern endleaves)
Binding: British Museum 1962
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: (?)King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547); the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: London
- Publications:
- Boffey, Julia, & A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005); Gransden, Antonia, Historical Writing in England, ii, c. 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London, 1982), pp. 228–29; Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge, ed., Chronicles of London (Oxford, 1905), pp. viii–ix, xviii–xxii, xxxvi–xxxix, 1–116; Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford, 1913), pp. 75–77, 80, 82–83, 87–90
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)