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Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103828
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000043
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI
- Title:
- Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of tracts and papers concerning the power of the King in ecclesiastical councils; the duties of bishops and priests; and the rights of the Church of England against the claims of the Pope. In two volumes: Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/1 and Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103828 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI : Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536 - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/1 : Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536
Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/2 : Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1219]/040-001103828
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1533
- End Date:
- 1536
- Date Range:
- 1533-1536
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to consult this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 265 mm.
Foliation: volume 1 ff. vi + 180; volume 2 ff. vi + 283.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1984.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.
John Weever (1575/6–1632), poet and antiquary: former owner (see Tite).
Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester (1574–1632), diplomat and letter writer: possible loan (see Tite).
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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Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS James 28, p. 57: extracts from this volume made by Richard James (bap. 1591, d. 1638), antiquary (see Tite).
Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 596-598.
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity (London: Society of Antiquaries, 1770-), vol. 25 (1834).
Collier, Jeremy, An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, 9 vols (London: W. Straker, 1840-1841), vols. 1 and 2.
Doran, Susan, ed. Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), nos. 134, 139, 155, 159.
Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Strype, John, Memorials of Thomas Cranmer (London: Richard Chiswell, 1694).
Strype, John, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: John Wyat, 1711).
Strype, John, The life and acts of John Whitgift (Oxford: Clarendon, 1822).
Strype, John, Ecclesiastical Memorials, relating chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of it, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary I, 3 vols in 6 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1822).
Strype, John, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and other various occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth’s Happy Reign, 4 vols in 7 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1824)
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 216.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- ff.37v-38. -- f.177v. Exhibited: Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance (online), 30 April 2016-.