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Cotton MS Caligula B X
- Record Id:
- 040-003473963
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100095474868.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B X
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1558-1567
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript has been divided into two volumes: Cotton MS Caligula B X/1 (ff. 1-208) and Cotton MS Caligula B X/2 (ff. 209-412).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003473963 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula B X : Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1558-1567 - Contains:
- Cotton MS Caligula B X/1 : Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1558-1561
Cotton MS Caligula B X/2 : Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1562-1567
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Caligula B X - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1394]/040-003473963
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Cipher
English
French
Italian
Latin
Scots - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1558
- End Date:
- 1631
- Date Range:
- 1558-1631
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner. His signature, dated 1603, on f. 2r. Organizational notes by Cotton. The volume is recorded as present in the Cotton Library in 1656/1657: Tite, The Early Records, p. 117.
Tite notes the Cecil correspondence may have been acquired by Cotton in 1603, with the transcripts and copies as later additions.
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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Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 85-89.
Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 117.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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British Library, Cotton MS Caligula B X/1 (ff. 1-208): Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1558-1561.
British Library, Cotton MS Caligula B X/2 (ff. 209-412); Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1562-1567.