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Cotton MS Titus B IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001103527
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000353
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100150433742.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus B IX
- Title:
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Irish Parliament, Acts of Henry IV to Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of Acts of the Irish Parliament, titled ‘Severall Statutes and Acts of Parliament holden att Dublin in Ireland. As you may see in the Index at the latter end of this booke’ (f. 1r). Owned by George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), whose annotations are on ff. 8v-14r.
f. 2r Abridgement of statutes established in 1433-4, gathered out of the original statutes of Ireland.
f. 7r Notes on statutes, no date. French.
f. 12r Parliament held before James Butler, Earl of Ormond, Lord Justice of Ireland. 1408-9.
ff. 12v-212r Abridgements of acts from selected statutes, established at Parliaments between 1408 and 1571, held at Dublin, Trim, and Drogheda.
Decoration: illustrated heraldic bearings.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103527 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus B IX : Irish Parliament, Acts of Henry IV to Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1067]/040-001103527
- 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_100150433742.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 16th century-1st half 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 215mm.
Foliation: ff. xiii + 212.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1865.
Script: Secretary; italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland; England.
Provenance:
George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629): former owner.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.
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.
- Former External References:
- Cotton MS Faustina E VI
- Publications:
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Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 541.
Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Statutes passed in the Parliaments held in Ireland from the third year of Edward the Second, A.D. 1310 to the fortieth year of George III, A.D. 1800 (Dublin: G. Grierson, 1794-1801).
Tite, Colin G.C., The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton, The Panizzi Lectures, 1993 (London: British Library, 1994).
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 195.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)