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Cotton MS Caligula C IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001102386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0002dc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C IX
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587, including the correspondence of James VI, King of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587. Includes the correspondence of James VI, King of Scots (1567–1625) (the future King James I of England).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102386 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula C IX : Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587, including the correspondence of… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1 : Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2 : Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Caligula C IX - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0525]/040-001102386
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1581
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1581-1st half 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: paper (Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 1–28, 31–331; Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 332–707); parchment (Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 29–30).
Dimensions: approximately 340 × 245 mm.
Foliation: fos. 707; 2 (Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 1–2: early modern endleaves) + 705 (Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 3–331; Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2, ff. 332–707).
Binding: British Museum 1959, bound in two volumes (Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 1–331; Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2, ff. 332–707).
- Custodial History:
- Origin:England, Scotland and France.Provenance:Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1, ff. 45–52: previously owned by a ‘Mr Phillps’;Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owned and assembled the entire volume.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, before passing to his grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet. Sir John Cotton bequeathed the entire collection of manuscripts to the British nation ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, by Act of Parliament (12 and 13 William III, c. 7).
The Cotton collection formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753, and was transferred to the British Library in 1973.
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England, Scotland and France
- Publications:
- Kelliher, Hilton, ‘British post-mediaeval verse in the Cotton collection: a survey and handlist’, in C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy (London, 1997), pp. 322–23
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)