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Cotton MS Tiberius A III
- Record Id:
- 040-001102150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00021f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057891094.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Cotton MS Tiberius A III
- Title:
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Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval table of contents and a frontispiece is now f. 117.
Contents:
ff. 2r-173v: A collection of liturgy, prognostics, penitential texts and homilies, including a copy of the Regularis Concordia and two full-page miniatures. This manuscript was probably copied at Christ Church Canterbury in the first half of the 11th century. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
ff. 174r-177v: Part of another copy of the Regularis Concordia made in the mid-11th century. The remainder of this manuscript is contained in Cotton MS Faustina B III.
ff. 178r-178v: A genealogy of the West Saxon kings which formerly formed part of the manuscript containing the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI). It ends with Edward the Martyr and may have been copied in the late 970s.
ff. 179r-179v: a horologium in Old English and a mass prayer in Latin, copied in the late 10th century.
Folio 1 formerly contained a cutting from a 14th-century Book of Hours. This has been removed and now forms part of Royal MS 13 D I*, f. 38.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102150 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A III : Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium;… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173 : Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics;…
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177 : St Æthelwold, Regularis concordia
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178 : Genealogy of the West Saxon kings
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179 : Horologium; mass prayer
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- 032-001101582[0432]/040-001102150
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 × 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. 179 (where f. 1 has been removed + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1957.
- 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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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 113 [exhibition catalogue].
Brown, Michelle, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), p. 15.
Cohen, Adam S., 'The Book and Monastic Reform', in Imago libri: représentations carolingiennes du livre, ed. by Charlotte Denoël, Anne-Orange Poilpré, and Sumi Shimahara, Bibliologia, 47 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 173-182 (p. 177, pl. 77).
Cooper, Tracey-Anne, Monk-Bishops and the English Benedictine Reform Movement: Reading London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii in Its Manuscript Context (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015).
Carley, James P. and Colin G. C. Tite, ‘Sir Robert Cotton as collector of manuscripts and the question of dismemberment: British Library MSS Royal 13 D. I and Cotton Otho D. VIII’, The Library, 14 (1992), 94–99.
Denoël, Charlotte, 'L’Épiphanie du Verbe: Essai d’une typologie formelle des représentations du livre au premier Moyen Âge dans les portraits des évangélistes', in Imago libri: représentations carolingiennes du livre, ed. by Charlotte Denoël, Anne-Orange Poilpré, and Sumi Shimahara, Bibliologia, 47 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 15-26 (p. 26).Dodwell, C. R., The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: University Press, 1954), pls 2a-2b.
Doyle, Kathleen and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), p. 162.
Gameson, Richard, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), p. 47.
Gneuss, Helmut, 'Origin and Provenance of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: The Case of Cotton Tiberius A. III', in Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays presented to M.B. Parkes, ed. by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1997), pp. 13-48.
Gullick, Michael, ‘Fragments of some Anglo-Saxon service books in Norway and Sweden’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 188-200 (p. 197 n. 40).
Hilmo, Maidie, Medieval Images, Icons, and iIlustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. 78n.
Hoffmann, Hartmut Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich, Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 30, 2 vols (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1986), I, p. 23.
Korhammer, Michael 'Mittelalterliche Konstruktionshilfen und altenglische Wortstellung', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 34 (1980), 18-58 (p. 57).
Lapidge, Michael, ed., Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints, Henry Bradshaw Society, 106 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1991), p. 71.
Lawrence, Anne, 'Manuscripts of Early Anglo-Norman Canterbury', in Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220, ed. by Nicola Coldstream and Peter Draper, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 5, 1979 (Leeds: Maney and Son, 1982), pp. 101-11 (p. 105).
Liuzza, R. M. (ed. and trans.), Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of the Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A III (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 20, 73-74.
Napier, Arthur S., Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien nebst untersuchungen über ihre echtheit, 4 vols, Sammlung englisher Denkmäler in kritischen Ausgaben (Berlin: Weidmann, 1883), I: Text und Varianten, p. ix (as 'K').
Nees, Lawrence, Early Medieval Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 225, pl. 130.
Pächt, Otto, C. R. Dodwell and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), pp. 204-05.
Rankin, Susan, ‘A Fleury model for singing at Winchester’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 178-187 (p. 178 n. 3).
Rickert, Margaret, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965).
Roberts, Jane, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), no. 20; pp. 91, 95.
Salvador, Mercedes, 'Architectural Metaphors and Christological Imagery in the Advent Lyrics: Benedictine Propaganda in the Exeter Book?', in Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Catherine E. Karkov and Nicholas Howe, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 318, Essays in Ango-Saxon Studies, 2 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), 169-212 (p. 177, fig. 3.1).
Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 5, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1986), no. 131.
Sauer, Hans, 'The Latin and the Old English Versions of St Augustine's Prayer in his Soliloquia: A Study and a Rhetorical Synopsis', Anglia, 137 (2019), 561-611.
Tite, Colin G. C., ‘“Lost or stolen or strayed”: a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton library’, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), p. 290 and fig. 6.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 103-04.
Tolhurst, J. B. L., ed., The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester: MSS. Rawlinson Liturg. e. 1*, and Gough Liturg. 8, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Henry Bradshaw Society, 69-71, 76, 78, 80, 6 vols (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1932-42), VI, p. 238.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: British Museum, 1979), I, no. 549.
Wilcox, Jonathan, ‘The Wolf at work: uncovering Wulfstan’s compositional method’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 141-153 (p. 150).
Wright, Thomas, ed., A Volume of Vocabularies…, ed. by Thomas 2 vols ([Liverpool]: priv. ptd., 1857-73), vol. 1, pp. 1-14 [Based on Cotton MS Tiberius A III, collated with Oxford, St. John's College, MS 154].
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.