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Cotton MS Julius A X
- Record Id:
- 040-001101629
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003d9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060433709.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A X
- Title:
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Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript includes:
f. 1: early modern table of contents.
ff. 2-43: a Latin account of the life and miracles of St Oswine, possibly copied in Tyneside in the 12th or 13th century.
There are two blank, unfoliated leaves between folio 43 and folio 44.
ff. 44-175: an imperfect copy of the Old English Martyrology made in the late 10th or early 11th century, with leaves missing at the beginning, the end, and between ff. 59-60, ff. 65-66, and ff. 113-114.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101629 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius A X : Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect) - Contains:
- Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 2–43 : Vita sancti Oswini regis; Inventio sancti Oswini regis; Miracula sancti Oswini regis
Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175 : Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Julius A X - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0010]/040-001101629
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060433709.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0990
- End Date:
- 1225
- Date Range:
- late 10th century- early 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding: 190 x 140 mm (folio: 180 x 150 mm; text space: approx. 150 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 175 (where ff. vi and 1 are early modern endleaves, + two unfoliated leaves after ff. 43, 59, and 113 + 1 unfoliated leaf after f. 65 + 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/ British Library in-house, rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician.
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 3.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 94.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)