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Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
- Record Id:
- 040-001102190
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00024b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057891272.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
- Title:
- A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim, Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem, Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together.
Contents:
ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century.
f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of St John, copied in the mid-10th century.
f. 174v: A charter of William II, duke of Normandy (1035-1087), (later King William I of England, 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century.
ff. 175r-180v: A fragment of Junillus Africanus's Instituta regularia divine legis copied in the late 7th or early 8th century, possibly in the south of England.
ff. 181r-194v: Part of a collection of writings by the hermit Richard Rolle, along with an office and vita for him.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102190 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV : A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, ff 1–173 : Alcuin, Epistolae and various other letters
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174 : Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, ff 175–180 : Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect)
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, ff 181–194 : Richard Rolle, Super Apocalypsim; Richard Rolle, Super Mulierem Fortem; Officium de Sancto Ricardo…
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- 032-001101582[0444]/040-001102190
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057891272.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0675
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged during the Ashburnham House fire of 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: paper frames 270 x 225 (maximum folio size 230 x 155 mm (ff. 1-173), 220 x 170 mm (ff. 175-80), 210 x 140 (ff. 181-194)).
Foliation: ff. 194 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves between ff. 180 and 181, + 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Anglo-Caroline minuscule, square minuscule, Insular minuscule, Protogothic, Gothic
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1987.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owner. 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.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Appendix XXXV
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992) ii, no. 7212.
Brett, Caroline, ‘A Breton pilgrim in England in the reign of King Æthelstan’, in France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Essays by members of Girton College, Cambridge, in memory of Ruth Morgan, ed. by Gillian Jondorf and D. N. Dumville (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991), pp. 43-70.
Breviarium ad Usum Insignis Ecclesie Eboracensis, 2 vols, Publications of the Surtees Society, lxxi, lxxv (Durham: Andrews, 1880-83), II, cols. 785-810.
Carley, James P. and Pierre Petitmengin, ‘Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland’s letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian’s works’, Anglo-Saxon England, 33 (2004), 195-223 (pp. 204-08).
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 368, 369.
Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 217.
Ker, N. R. and Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Supplement to the Second Edition (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 48.
Simon Keynes, ‘The “Canterbury letter-book”: Alcuin and after’, 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. 119-140 (pp. 120-25, 129, 131-40; figs 9.1-6).
Lapidge, Michael, The Cult of St Swithun (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 220, 241, 250.
Lapidge, Michael and Michael Winterbottom, The Early Lives of St Dunstan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012), p. 143 n. 98, 151, 159, 160 n. 50.
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores, II, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), no. 189.
Marzac, Nicole, Richard Rolle de Hampole (1300-1349): vie et oeuvres (Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1968), pp. 47, 49, 69-87.
Sharpe, R. and others, English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (London: British Library, 1996), p. 207.
Smith, Thomas, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1696), p. 21.
Thomson, Rodney, William of Malmesbury (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987), pp. 99 n, 8, 104-07, 130-31, 135, 143, 159-63, 170, 172.
Thomson, Rodney, 'Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey', Anglo-Saxon England, 10 (1981), 1-19.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 106.
Vanderputten, Steven, ‘Canterbury and Flanders in the late tenth century’, Anglo-Saxon England, 35 (2006), 219-44.
Watson, A.G., The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), no. 56.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- 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.