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Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Record Id:
- 040-001102391
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165157309.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Title:
- Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
- Scope & Content:
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Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost or reduced to illegible fragments. Copies of some of the lost leaves can be found in Add MS 38525.
Contents:
ff. 2–164: Original records concerning England and France, from the time of Henry V (1413–22) and Henry VI of England (1422–61, 1470–71).
ff. 165–194: List compiled in the first half of the 17th century of documents concerning England and France, 1259–1528.
A selection of individual documents in the volume are as follows:
f. 4r: The causes why the King disposeth him to heat with the Dauphin against the Duc of Bourgoigne (See Rymer's MSS, Add MS 4601, p. 389).
f. 7r: Advice given to the Dauphin by his Council, 1417.
f. 11r: Henry's Challenge of the Dauphin to single combat, Harfleur, 16 September 1415 (see Rymer, vol 9, p. 313).
f. 16r: Letters from William Bardolf, Lieutenant of Calais, to Henry V, 7 October 1415 (See Rymer, vol. 9, p. 314).
f. 19v: Letter of news, Vernon upon Sayne, 11 May 1419.
f. 20v: Letter from the Earl of Richmond to Henry V, Medelay, 13 April.
f. 21r: Letter from the Duke of Burgundy to Henry V recommending the Abbot of Mortemer, Troyes, 8 April 1420 (see Rymer, vol. 9, p. 875).
f. 21v: Letter from William Bardolf, Lieutenant of Calais, to the Duke of Bedford, Calais, 12 November 1417 (see Rymer's MSS, Add MS 4601, p. 465).
f. 22r: Letter from the Lieutenant of Calais to the King, 13 November.
f. 23r: Letter from Pierre de Luxembourg to Henry V, Champs, 2 July 1420 (see Rymer, vol. 10, p. 3).
f. 23v: Letter from the Envoy to Paris to Henry V, Pontrice, 3 June 1420.
f. 24r: Letter from Henry V to the Moneyer of Troyes, concerning the payment of a monthly sum to the Queen of France, 9 June 1420 (see Rymer, vol. 9, p. 913).
f. 25r: Letter from the inhabitants of Joigny to Henry V, 6 June 1420.
f. 25v: Letter from the Bishop of Nantes and others to Henry V, Corbell, 9 July 1420 (see Rymer, vol. 10, p. 2).
f. 26r: Letter from Swinburn and Cowdray to Henry V requesting that some wheat and other things, belonging to the Citizens of Paris, and detained at Rouen, may be given up, Paris, 17 June 1420.
f. 28r: Letters of Privy Seal for a Proclamation of the innocence and loyalty of Richard Duke of York and others, from the time of Henry VI.
f. 43r–v: A challenge of single combat, sent by Henry V to the Dauphin, 1415.
ff. 43v–44r: The French battle-plan preceding the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102391 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula D V : Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0530]/040-001102391
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165157309.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English
English, Middle
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: a mixed codex of paper (ff. 1, 9, 11–22, 29–30, 32–33, 35–52, 55–62, 64–69, 71–78, 84–90, 93, 104–108, 111–119) and parchment (ff. 2–8, 10, 23–28, 31, 34, 53–54, 63, 70, 79–83, 91–92, 94–103, 109–110, 120–194).
Dimensions: paper guards approximately 350 × 265 mm (parchments fragments various).
Foliation: ff. 194 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); f. 1 is an early modern flyleaf.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, 1951.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England and France.
Provenance:
Thomas Tempest: possibly owned ff. 123v-150r before 1626, see Tite, 'An Anglo-Saxon Gospel book', p. 435.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: appears in Cotton catalogues Add MS 35213, f. 40v, and Add MS 36682, f. 1r.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Goodwin, Thomas, The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c: In Nine Books (London: J.D., 1704), pp. 76, 214.
Phillpotts, Christopher, ‘The French plan of battle during the Agincourt campaign’, English Historical Review, 99 (1984), 59–66.
Rymer, Thomas, Foedera (London, 1739-1745), vol. 9, pp. 118, 196, 199, 205, 208, 222, 225, 258, 313, 314, 387, 425, 427, 478, 483, 602, 625, 741, 742, 779, 794, 875, 885, 890, 909, 910, 913; vol. 10, p. 438; available at British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/rymer-foedera.
Tite, Colin, ‘Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Thomas Tempest and an Anglo-Saxon Gospel Book: A Cottonian paper in the Harleian library’, in Colin G. Tite & James P. Carley (eds.), Books and Collectors 1200-1700: Essays presented to Andrew Watson (London: The British Library, 1997), pp. 429-439 (p. 435).
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 118.
- Exhibitions:
- Battle of Agincourt, The White Tower, Royal Armouries, London, 1 April 2015 - 1 July 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)