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Cotton MS Julius A II
- Record Id:
- 040-001101594
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003d1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060432971.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A II
- Title:
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Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains 3 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631):
ff. 2-9: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect), 1st quarter of the 12th century;
ff. 10-135: Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v: imperfect), Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v); a grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’ (131r–135v), mid-11th century;
ff. 136-144: A metrical prayer (136r–137r); Adrian and Ritheus (137v–140r); Disticha Catonis (141r–144v: excerpts), 2nd half of the 12th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101594 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius A II : Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis - Contains:
- Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 2–9 : Bede, De temporum ratione
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135 : Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144 : Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
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- 032-001101582[0002]/040-001101594
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060432971.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1025
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Mid-11th century to 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 225 × 150 mm (text space: 180 x 100mm (ff. 2-9); 215 x 110mm (ff. 10-135); 170 x 115 mm (ff. 136-144)) .
Foliation: ff. i + 144 (f. i is a parchment flyleaf + 1 parchment leaf following f. 135 + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Protogothic (ff. 2-9); Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule (ff. 10-144).
Binding: British Museum 1847, repaired in 1950.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (all parts of the volume).
Provenance (ff. 2-9):
Annotations in the margins in the hand of Patrick Young (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian and biblical scholar and writer (ff. 4-6).
Provenance (ff. 10-135)
A note in a hand of the late 12th century, 'karissimo domino suo et amico thorn of hamton' (f. 135v).
Provenance (all parts of the volume):
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician, the three components were acquired separately and bound together while in his library: listed as unbound when loaned by him to Henry Spelman in c.1615 (London, British Library, Harley 6018, fol. 159r). The collection was augmented by Sir Robert's son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet: in the catalogue dated before 1654, British Library, Additional MS 36682a, f. 14 (see Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library, pp. 49, 93).
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet and grandson of Sir Robert Cotton bequeathed the entire 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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Cox, R. S., 'The Old English Dicts of Cato', Anglia, 30 (1972), 1-42, (pp. 4, 31).
Cross, James E., & Thomas D. Hill, eds., The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus (Toronto, 1982), pp. 15–16.
Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: a collective edition, 6 (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1942), pp. 94-96.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), no. 388.
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, A Bibliographical Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 336.
Keefer, Sarah L., 'Respect for the book: a consideration of form, content and context in two vernacular poems', in New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse, ed. by Sarah L. Keeter and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (New York: D.S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 21-44 (pp. 36, 42-43).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), nos. 158, 159.
Laistner, M. L. W., & H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, NY, 1943), p. 152.
Lapidge, Michael, Anglo-Latin Literature, 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), p. 461, n. 28.
Napier, A. S., 'Altenglische Kleinigkeiten', Anglia, 11 (1889), 1-10 (pp. 5-6).
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 1.
Scragg, Donald G., A Conspectus of Scribal Hands writing English, 960-2012 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2012), no. 492.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 49, 93
Treharne, Elaine M., 'The Form and Function of the Twelfth-Century Old English Dicts of Cato', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 10.24 (2003), 465-85 (p. 465).
Walbers, Birte, 'Number and measurement in Anglo-Saxon Christian culture: editions and studies of numerical notes in eight Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 800-c.1150', (unpublished doctoral thesis, Univeristy of York, 2012), online at http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2912/1/thesis.pdf [accessed 11.01.16].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)