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Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
- Record Id:
- 040-001102164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000243
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165159537.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
- Title:
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Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows:
ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century);
ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th century);
ff 107–164: Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327 (2nd half of the 15th century)
ff. 165-167: Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata, fragment (3rd quarter of the 9th century); Prosper of Aquitaine, Versus ad coniugem, fragment (1st half of the 11th century).
25 paper folios containing lists of archbishops, bishops and kings, copied in the1st quarter of the 17th century, formerly bound together with this manuscript, are now kept separately as Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102164 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1 : Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 1–38 : Martinus Polonus, Chronicle (ff. 1r–38r); musical staves with neums (f. 38v)
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 39–106 : John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 107–164 : Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 165–166 : Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata; Versus ad coniugem with Old English gloss
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0436]/040-001102164
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165159537.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 11th -15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 310 × 245 mm.
Foliation: ff. 168 (part i) + 25 (part ii); 38 (ff. 1-38) + 68 ( ff. 39-106) + 58 (ff. 107-164) + 3 (ff. 165-167) [+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end.
Binding: British Museum 1847.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician, his inscription at the top of f. 167, in the catalogues of his library, Harley MS 6018, no. 353 and Additional MS 36789, f. 148, as cited in Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 104.
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. Three texts copied in the 1st quarter of the 17th century, formerly part of the same manuscript, were bound separately in 1866, as Cotton MS Tiberius A vii, part ii, renamed Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/2.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Tiberius A vii, part i
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Friedman, John B., Northern English Book Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), plate facing the title page.
Scott, K.L., Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 vols (Harvey Miller: London, 1996), no.89.
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 104.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)