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Cotton MS Caligula D IV
- Record Id:
- 040-001102390
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0002e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula D IV
- Title:
- Records (all originals) concerning England and France, temp. Henry IV (1399–1413)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragments of divers papers relating to the affairs of the English dominions in France; chiefly in French, and of the time of Henry IV. K. of England. This MS. consisted originally of 150 leaves, of which only 70 are now left, and these so much burnt and defaced as hardly to be of any use.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102390 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula D IV : Records (all originals) concerning England and France, temp. Henry IV (1399–1413) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0529]/040-001102390
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: paper (ff. 1–6, 8–10, 14–18, 21–23, 26–29, 31, 33–44, 46–47, 50–60, 62, 66–128, 130, 134, 136–139); parchment (ff. 7, 11–13, 19–20, 24–25, 28, 30, 32, 45, 48–49, 60–61, 63–65, 88, 105, 107, 129, 131–133, 135, 140)
Dimensions: approximately 355 × 270 mm
Foliation: fos. 140; 2 (ff. 1–2: early modern endleaves) + 138 (ff. 3–140)
Binding: British Museum 1963
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England, France and the Channel Isles
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)