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Cotton MS Tiberius B I
- Record Id:
- 040-001102195
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00024c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B I
- Title:
- Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript comprises two independent portions, bound together in the 17th century, plus early modern prefatory material and medieval endleaves:
f. 1r: early modern list of contents;
f. 2r: Cottonian frontispiece;
f. 2v: faded early modern lines;
ff. 3r-111v: Old English version of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos;
ff. 122r-164r: Menologium (112r–114v); Maxims II (115r–v); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text, 60 BC–AD 1066 (115v–164r);
f. 165r-v: medieval endleaf.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102195 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B I : Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v : Old English Translation of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 112r–165v : Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
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- 032-001101582[0445]/040-001102195
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_I_ (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 1st half 11th century-2nd half 12th 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: approximately 295 × 250 mm (text block ranges from 220 x140 mm to 230 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. i +165 (where ff. i, 1 are early modern endleaves, f. 2 is a Cottonian title-page + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: English vernacular minuscule.
Binding: BM/BL in-house, 1957.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
William Bowyer (d. 1569/70), antiquary: owned, according to John Joscelyn (see Cotton MS Nero C III, f. 208r).
Robert Bowyer (b. c.1560, d. 1621), parliamentary official and politician: owned; exchanged by him with Robert Cotton (see Harley MS 6018, ff. 154v, 158r).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: a Cottonian title page can be found on f. 2r.
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:
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 10 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 2003), no. 227.
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. 143 [exhibition catalogue].
Da Rold, Orietta and others (ed.), The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, electronic book (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), [https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Tibe.B.i.htm].
Johnson, David F., ‘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 (pp. 98, 102-7; figs 7.3-11).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 191.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 3.
O’Brien O’Keeffe, Katherine, ‘Reading the C-text: the after-lives of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. i’, in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage, ed. by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 137–60.
Temple, Elzbieta, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 30 (xviii).
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 552.
- 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)