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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102160
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000242
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060436894.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
- Title:
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis; a chronicle of English history between 1042-1346 (imperfect).
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains 3 texts:
ff. 1r-35v: the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the late tenth century with additions about the True Cross and a list of archbishops of Canterbury from the late 11th or early 12th century;
ff. 36r-120v: an imperfect cartulary of Ely Cathedral, including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis, copied between the late 12th and mid-13th century;
ff. 121r-199v: an imperfect chronicle of English history between 1042-1346, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102160 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI : The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom…
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v : Cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory (imperfect), including Inquisitio Eliensis and Inquisitio…
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 121r–199v : Chronicle of English history, AD 1042–1346 (incomplete)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0435]/040-001102160
- 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_100060436894.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0977
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 250 × 210 mm (text space ranges from between 170 x 110 mm and 200 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 199 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end + 2 unfoliated parchment leaves between ff. 35v and 36r).
Script: Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule, Protogothic, Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1962
- 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. 33
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 67 [exhibition catalogue].
David F. Johnson, ‘The transmission and reception of Alfredian “Apocrypha”’, 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. 98-107 (p. 98 n. 1).
- 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)