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Cotton MS Julius D VII

Record Id:
040-001101724
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001101582
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00000e
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100161518000.0x000001
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D VII
Title:
John of Wallingford, Collectanea
Scope & Content:

John of Wallingford, Collectanea, including the following:

f. 34r: a list of the kings of England to Henry III (1216–1272);

ff. 35v–41r: a kalendar;

f. 42v: a drawing of John of Wallingford, by Matthew Paris (d. 1259);

ff. 49v–50r: Wallingford's chronicle;

ff. 50v–53r: a map of Britain, now bound separately as Cotton MS Julius D VII/1;

f. 60v: Christ in Majesty, by Matthew Paris (d. 1259);

ff. 61r–110r: a chronicle of English history, AM 1–AD 1258;

ff. 114r–115r: a drawing (f. 114r) and description of the elephant presented to King Henry III of England (1216–1272) by King Louis IX of France (1226–1270);

ff. 115v–121v: 'Excerpta de gestis abbatum ecclesie sancti Albani';

ff. 122v–125r: a copy of the charter of the liberties of England ('Magna Carta'), issued by King John, 15 June 1215;

ff. 125r–125r: a copy of the Forest Charter of the liberties of England ('Magna Carta'), issued by King John, 15 June 1215;

f. 130r: a medical recipe entitled 'For branyng or skaldyng in eny parte of a man' (Middle English).

This manuscript was made in the 3rd quarter of the 13th century, with additions to the 2nd half of the 15th century. It is written in Latin, with the exception of the Middle English recipe on f. 130r.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Cotton Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-001101582
040-001101724
Is part of:
Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

 

Cotton MS Julius D VII : John of Wallingford, Collectanea
Hierarchy:
032-001101582[0039]/040-001101724
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English, Middle
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1250
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731.

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: approximately 200 × 165 mm.

Foliation: fos. 134.

Binding: British Museum 1963; ff. 50–53 are now bound separately as Cotton MS Julius D VII/1.

Custodial History:

Origin:

St Albans Abbey and Wymondham Priory.

Provenance:

Thomas Kyngesbury, monk of St Albans, 16th century;

John Conyngesby, 16th century: 'Constat Iohanni Conyngesby ex dono magistri Kyngesbury' (f. 1r), 'J. Conyngesby' (f. 34r), 'J. Conyngesby' (f. 61r);

(?)Philip Howard, 13th earl of Arundel (d. 1595): 'my good Lorde of Arundell' (f. 46r);

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: 'Ro. Cotton' (f. 1v); 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus' (f. 10r); 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus' (f. 46r). Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet, who 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.

Publications:

Binski, Paul, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170–1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), pl. 149.

Evans, Michael, 'An illustrated fragment of Peraldus's Summa of Vice: Harleian MS 3244', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982), 32–55 (p. 22, n. 57).

Harvey, P. D. A., Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map (London: British Library, 1996), pl. 23.

Harvey, P. D. A., 'Matthew Paris's maps of Britain', Thirteenth Century England, 4 (1992), 109–21.

Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 166;

Kumler, Aden, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 79, 251 (n. 100).

Mittman, Asa Simon, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (New York: Routledge, 2006), fig. 1.3.

Morgan, Nigel, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190–1285, 2 vols (London, 1982–88), no. 91.

Planta, Joseph, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 15–16.

Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 97–98.

Vaughan, Richard, Matthew Paris (Cambridge, 1958), pp. 22, 228–30, 241, 243.

Exhibitions:
Chroniclers of History, St Albans Museum and Gallery, St Albans, 29 July 2021 - 31 October 2021
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Related Material:
ff. 50–53 have now been bound separately as Cotton MS Julius D VII/1.