Medieval cartularies from England and Ireland, including the oldest-surviving Anglo-Saxon cartulary.Anglo-Saxon and medieval British charters, including two of the four surviving contemporary exemplifications of Magna Carta 1215.Biblical manuscripts, including an early illustrated copy of the Book of Genesis (the “Cotton Genesis”), the Cotton Hexateuch, the Vespasian Psalter, the Winchester Psalter, the Heliand (a version of the Gospels in Old Saxon verse), and the Psalter of Henry VI.
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An impressive series of 16th- and 17th-century maps (housed in the Augustus press), together with an Anglo-Saxon map of the world.Medieval chronicles from the British Isles and western Europe, including the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, the Chronicle of Mann and the Isles, the Annals of Egmond Abbey, and the Russian Chronicle.Papers from many other individuals are also in the collection, such as the diary of London merchant Henry Machyn. 16th- and 17th-century state papers, including the diary of Edward VI, the will of Mary, queen of Scots, and autograph letters of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.The largest collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world, including the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Beowulf manuscript, two of the earliest copies of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and five manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.Non-European languages include Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuit, Persian and Turkish. Other European languages represented in the collection include Cornish, Danish, Dutch, French (including Anglo-Norman French), German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Welsh. Many of the manuscripts are written in Latin or in English (including Old, Middle, and Scots English). It includes manuscripts from the collections of the antiquarian scholar John Leland ( c.1503–1552), the mathematician and astronomer John Dee (1527–1609), and the statesman William Cecil, Baron Burghley (1520/21–1598). The collection contains the largest group of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world, some of the most important Biblical manuscripts, medieval cartularies from England and Ireland, an impressive series of maps, heraldic manuscripts, and 16th and 17th-century state papers. These items range in date from the 4th century to the 1600s and have their origin in western Europe and beyond. There are more than 1,400 manuscripts and over 1,500 charters, rolls, and seals from the Cotton collection at the British Library.
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