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Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102188
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000249
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058089566.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
- Title:
- Two cartularies of Worcester Cathedral Priory (including ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’) and supplementary material, including a homily and an account of Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two cartularies pertaining to Worcester Cathedral Priory, one written in the early eleventh century and the other written in the late eleventh century. The earlier cartulary contains notes possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, archbishop of Worcester-York (d. 1023). The second cartulary, according to its prefatory material, was compiled by Hemming, a monk and subprior of Worcester, at the behest of St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (b. c. 1008, d. 1095) (f. 131v). The second cartulary also contains narrative sections and an account of St Wulfstan, which may also have been written by Hemming.
The manuscript includes:
ff. 1–118v: a cartulary in an early eleventh-century hand, known as ‘Liber Wigorniensis’;
ff. 115r-116v: a homily;
ff. 119r–200v: cartulary known as ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’, in late 11th-century hand;
ff. 165r-166v: an index of places;
f. 167r-v: a list of kings and their donations;
f. 176r: a list of bishops and their donations;
ff. 180v–182v: an account of St Wulfstan (Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester).
Decoration: Rubrication and red initials (ff. 119r-200v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102188 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII : Two cartularies of Worcester Cathedral Priory (including ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’) and supplementary material,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0442]/040-001102188
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058089566.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century-16th 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, with parchment leaves set in paper.
Dimensions: approximately 320 × 250 mm (text 200 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 200 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation: the manuscript has been rebound several times, and its original collation is now lost; however, 15th-century folio numbers still survive (see Tinti, 'From episcopal conception' (2002), p. 237).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in June 1949.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Worcester Cathedral. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1–118) was written between 996, the date of the latest document it includes, and the death of Wulfstan I, archbishop of Worcester-York in 1023, since he may have annotated some of those folios. The second part of the manuscript (ff. 165–166) was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. The hand of the compiler of the second cartulary, Hemming, may be evident on ff. 119-25 and f. 177 (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 251).
Provenance:
Description of boundaries in a 12th-century hand (f. 153r).
12th-century to 16th-century additions (ff. 119r–200v).
15th-century foliation throughout. This indicates that the two parts of the manuscript were bound together at that point, if not earlier.
John Alderforde (fl. 1579): owned; inscribed with his name (f. 200v).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owned in 1612 (see Harley MS 6018, no. 357); inscribed with his name (f. 1r); lent to Arthur Agarde, Francis Tate, George Buc, John Selden, William Camden, Henry Spelman, Simonds D'Ewes (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 105).
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.
This manuscript contains 23 leaves which were temporarily placed after the 1731 fire as Cotton MS Appendix XXXVI, but which have now been returned.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Appendix XXXVI
- 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. 153 [exhibition catalogue].
Barrow, Julia, ‘The chronology of forgery production at Worcester from c. 1000 to the early twelfth century’, in Julia S. Barrow & N. P. Brooks (eds.), St Wulfstan and his World (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 105–22.
Baxter, Stephen, ‘Archbishop Wulfstan and the administration of God's property’, in Matthew Townend (ed.), Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference (Turnhout, 2004), pp. 161–205.
Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 1068.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999), no. 402.
Gneuss, Helmut, ‘Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), p. 366.
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 366.
Goodall, Dominic and Andrew Wareham. 'The Political Significance of Gifts of Power in the Khmer and Mercian Kingdoms 793-926', Medieval Worlds, 6 (2017), 156-95 (pp. 158-73, 189-90).
Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiae Wigorniensis, ed. by Thomas Hearne, 2 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1723) [includes edition].
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 190.
Ker, N. R., ‘The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan’, in Peter Clemoes & Kathleen Hughes (eds.), England before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock (Cambridge, 1971), reprinted in his Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage (London, 1985), pp. 9–26.
Ker, N. R., ‘Hemming’s Cartulary: A Description of the Two Worcester Cartularies in Cotton Tiberius A. xiii’, in R. W. Hunt and others (eds.), Studies in Medieval History presented to F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1948), pp. 49–75, reprinted with additions in his Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage (London, 1985), pp. 31–59.
Tinti, Francesca, ‘From episcopal conception to monastic compilation: Hemming’s Cartulary in context’, Early Medieval Europe, 11 (2002), 233–61.
Tinti, Francesca, 'Si litterali memorie commendaretur: Memory and Cartularies in Eleventh-Century Worcester', in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. by Stephen Baxter and others (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 475-97 [includes edition of the Enucleatio libelli from the second cartulary].
Tinti, Francesca, Sustaining Belief: the Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. ix, xi, 4, 10, 18, 32, 47, 83, 85, 88, 89, 94-100, 106, 108, 115, 119, 126-31, 137-38, 143, 208, 238, 312, 345-46, 357.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 105.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), nos. 550–51.
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 (pp. 144, 151; fig. 10.2).
- 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)