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Cotton MS Julius D IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001101730
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000010
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165158017.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius D IX
- Title:
- South English Legendary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in the library of Sir Robert Cotton.
f. 307v: A note on the manuscript’s foliation, beginning: ‘Cons. fol. 307’; added in the library of Sir Robert Cotton.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) and small (1-line) red initials and red marginal paraphs throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101730 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius D IX : South English Legendary - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0041]/040-001101730
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165158017.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th 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.
Dimensions: approximately 195 × 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 307 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: Gothic cursive (Secretary).
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1898. Gold-tooled brown half leather binding with Robert Cotton’s armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside of the upper and lower covers; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th- or 16th-century English owner: their ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 297v was cut off when the manuscript’s pages were cropped: ‘Iste liber pertinet [...]’.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplates gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his shelfmark inscribed on f. [iii]recto; listed in the 17th-century catalogue of his manuscripts, now Add MS 36682 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 98).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir Thomas Cotton inscribed his name in the lower margin of f. 1r (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 251 [Appendix 3d]); perhaps the initial of his first name in the lower margin of f. 302r (‘T’).
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.
- Administrative Context:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th- or 16th-century English owner: their ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 297v was cut off when the manuscript’s pages were cropped: ‘Iste liber pertinet [...]’.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplates gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his shelfmark inscribed on f. [iii]recto; listed in the 17th-century catalogue of his manuscripts, now Add MS 36682 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 98).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton:
Sir Thomas Cotton inscribed his name in the lower margin of f. 1r (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 251 [Appendix 3d]); perhaps the initial of his first name in the lower margin of f. 302r (‘T’).
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.
- Publications:
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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 50, 56, 58, 59, 82, 184, 201, 721, 791, 907, 1859, 1911, 2304, 2839, 2841, 2843, 2844, 2845, 2848, 2850, 2854, 2856, 2858, 2860, 2862, 2866, 2868, 2870, 2872, 2873, 2874, 2875, 2876, 2878, 2880, 2882, 2884, 2886, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2891, 2894, 2895, 2897, 2899, 2900, 2905, 2906, 2910, 2911, 2912, 2914, 2915, 2916, 2918, 2922, 2932, 2945, 2949, 2950, 2951, 2953, 2954, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2961, 2973, 2987, 2989, 2990, 2991, 2994, 3004, 3005, 3017, 3026, 3029, 3033, 3035, 3037, 3041, 3042, 3046, 3048, 3050, 3051, 3052, 3053, 3055, 3059, 3063, 3064, 3066, 3067, 3068, 3091, 3266, 3384, 3388, 3389, 3453, 3813, 4266.
H. Forstmann, Untersuchungen zur Guthlac-Legende, Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, 12 (1902), 1-40 (pp. 22-33).
Manfred Görlach, The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary, Leeds Texts and Monographs, 6 (Leeds: University of Leeds, 1974), passim (as ‘J’).
Carl Horstmann, The Early South-English Legendary, or Lives of Saints (London: Trübner, 1887), p. xiv-xvii.
Michael S. Nagy, ‘Saint Æþelberht of East Anglia in the South English Legendary ’, Chaucer Review, 37 (2002), 159-72.
[Joseph Planta], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 16.
The South English Legendary: Edited from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 145 and British Museum MS. Harley 2277, ed. by Charlotte D'Evelyn and Anna Jean Mill, Early English Text Society, 3 vols, 235, 236 and 244 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956), passim (as ‘J’).
Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 98, 251 (Appendix 3d).
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II (1893), pp. 480-81, 554, 738.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)