The original Gawain manuscript, Robert Bruce Cotton | Cotton Nero A. x ..

Initial letter " E " of miniature, 1390 ; British Library, shelfmark: Cotton MS Nero D VI, f. 31

Initial letter " E " of miniature, 1390 ; British Library, shelfmark: Cotton MS Nero D VI, f. 31

The Lindisfarne Gospels ( London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D. IV ) is an Illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 AD in a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, which is now on display in the British Library in London.

Jew s, wearing the yellow badge being persecuted, from British Library Cotton MS Nero D I

The manuscript, Cotton Nero A. x is in the British Museum.

The original manuscript is known in academic circles as Cotton Nero A. x, following a naming system used by one of its owners, Robert Cotton, a collector of Medieval English texts.

On 10 July 1544 he was confirmed as tutor to the future King Edward VI of England, to teach him " of toungues, of the scripture, of philosophie and all liberal sciences " ( BL, Cotton MS Nero C. x, fol.

Manuscripts are now designated by library, bookpress, and number: for example, the manuscript of Beowulf is designated Cotton Vitellius A. xv, and the manuscript of Pearl is Cotton Nero A. x.

Cotton Nero A. x.

* Cotton Nero A. x.

Save for the latter ( found in BL-MS Harley 2250 ), all these works are known from a single surviving manuscript, the British Library holding Cotton Nero A. x.

This attribution of the poems of Cotton Nero A. x is not widely accepted, however, reflected in the ongoing use of the labels " Pearl Poet " or " Gawain Poet.

All four poems of the Cotton Nero A. x manuscript are in the same Middle English dialect, localised to the area of north-western Staffordshire and south-eastern Cheshire, in the English midlands.

However, the writer of the Cotton Nero A. x poems never refers to contemporary scholarship as Chaucer, for example, does ; the poems show much more of a tendency to refer to materials from the past ( the Arthurian legends, stories from the Bible ) than any new learning, so it is perhaps less possible to associate him or her with the universities, monasteries, or the court in London.

As Cotton Nero A. x contains the words " Hugo de " added in a later hand, its contents were identified with some of the works mentioned by Wyntoun.

He suggested Hugh Massey, based on a number of puns he found incorporated in Pearl ( in addition to the " Hugo de " inscription in Cotton Nero A. x ) Given the obvious link through the name " Hugh ", Hugh Massey has been conflated with Huchoun by some academics.

Pearl, miniature from Cotton Nero A. x

The manuscript, Cotton Nero A. x, is in the British Library.

The original manuscript is known in academic circles as Cotton Nero A. x, following a naming system used by one of its owners, Robert Cotton, a collector of Medieval English texts.

* Christopher D. Felker, Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance: Magnalia Christi Americana in Hawthorne, Stowe, and Stoddard ( Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993 ), ISBN 1-55553-187-3

He was an editor of Progressive Farmer magazine before accepting an appointment in Washington, D. C., in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration as director of the Cotton Division of the New Deal agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

Now home to the Marlboro Chamber of Commerce and The South Carolina Cotton Trail, the house had been purchased, restored, relocated to its West Main Street location and presented to the county in 1991 by D. D.

* Abbreviatio chronicorum ( or Historia minor ), another shortened history, mainly covering 1067 to 1253, including a Map of Great Britain, 1255-9 ( probably his final work ), British Library Cotton MS Claudius D. vi.

* Miscellaneous writings by John of Wallingford ( the Younger ), British Library, MS Cotton Julius D. VII, 188 x 130mm, ff 134.

:: 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. vi.

A surviving English translation of the sermon is also preserved in the manuscript British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. xiv.

The earliest extant manuscript from England to contain Vegetius ' text is Cotton Cleopatra D. I ( of the 11th, possibly late 10th century ).

See Simon Cotton, B. Sc., Ph. D., " Dimethylmercury and Mercury Poisoning ", Molecule of the Month ( MOTM ; published on the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, U. K. website ), October 2003 .</ ref > The incident is described in John Grant Fuller's book The Day of St Anthony's Fire.

Cotton Mather, D. D.

* Rich, T. C. G., Cotton, D. C. F., Hood, R. L. I. B., Houston, L., McCosh, J. and Jackson, M. B. W.

* Cotton Vespasian D. xiv Ælfric's De duodecim abusivis

* Cotton Titus D. xxvi Ælfwine's Prayerbook

Edwards taught that a type of Millennium would occur “ 1260 years after A. D. 606 when Rome was recognized as having universal authority .” His Puritan contemporaries, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, openly proclaimed a belief in a literal millennium.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( Manuscript D: Cotton Tiberius B IV ) records the murder of King Ælfwald by Sicga at Scythlecester ( which may be modern Chesters ) on 23 September 788:

Picloram, dicamba, 2, 4-D, dicamba + 2, 4 ,- D, and metsulfuron are effective for controlling Cotton Thistle.

Some verses composed by Gerard survive in unpublished form, now in the British Library manuscript collection as part of manuscript Cotton Titus D. xxiv.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

He defied the Boston hierarchy, and after they sent a small army to get him he befuddled the court, including John Cotton, with one of the most complicated religious discourses ever heard.

Reverend Cotton preached to them about Demetrius and the shrines of Ephesus.

Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

The Texans won the game through ball control, with Quarterback Cotton Davidson throwing only 17 passes.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.

The Lummus Cotton Gin Co. has had a sales and service office in Dallas since 1912.

Cotton Belt Gin Service, Inc. of Dallas makes gin saws and started here 14 years ago.

Cotton processing equipment is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

An extant copy of this work, currently manuscript Cotton Vitellus E xii, has been identified as a copy owned by Ealdred.

The historian Michael Lapidge suggests that the Laudes Regiae, which are included in Cotton Vitellius E xii, might have been composed by Ealdred, or a member of his household.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

Cotton mills and dye works provided work for the inhabitants ; but often in very difficult conditions.

Cotton accounts for 40 % of GDP and roughly 80 % of official export receipts.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Remounted page, British Library Cotton Vitellius A. XV

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

It suffered damage in the Cotton Library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.