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Cotton MS Tiberius B III
- Record Id:
- 040-001102201
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00024e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063639412.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B III
- Title:
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Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle; Benedictional; sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges; Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains four sections that were separately produced at different periods of time. The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar tables, was produced at Canterbury in the 1st quarter of the 13th century, but certainly before 1220. The 2nd section (ff. 12-142) contains a Benedictional that was produced in England in the 2nd half of the 12th century. The 3rd section (ff. 143-151), containing a sequence of Middle English prayers and a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges, was written in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The 4th section (ff. 152-203), containing the Collationes (Collections) of Odo (b. c. 880, d. 942), the second abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, was written around the mid-12th century. The latter part is imperfect due to a fire in 1731. The four parts were most likely joined together in the library of their first known post-medieval owner Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631).
Contents:
ff. 2r-7v: Calendar of Saints.
ff. 8r-8v: Computistical tables (Dominical Letters).
ff. 9r-10r: A Lunar calendar with prognostics, followed by solar and lunar tables.
f. 10v: A list of explanations for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle.
ff. 12r-142v: Benedictional.
ff. 143r-151v: A sequence of Middle English prayers in verse: to male martyr-saints (f. 143r); confessors (f. 143v); St John the Baptist (f. 144r); the Apostles (f. 144v); Christ (f. 145r); the Holy Ghost (f. 145v); the Trinity (f. 146r); the Virgin Mary (f. 146v); St Michael the Archangel (f. 147r); the Guardian Angel (f. 147v); the religious orders (f. 148r); virgin saints (f. 148v); Apostles, martyrs, confessors, Evangelists, virgins and innocents (f. 149r); prayer for confession (f. 149v).
ff. 150r-151v: A Latin memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges.
ff. 152r-203v: Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect).
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 11r: Two memoranda, one dated to the year 1512, about deeds of the monks under Thomas Goldstone II, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, between 1495-1517.
f. 1r: A table of contents, added by Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), librarian for Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631).
[ff. 1v, 11v, 87v and 142v are empty].
Decoration:
See the separate descriptions of parts I, II, III, and IV.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102201 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B III : Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 2–11 : Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables;…
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 12–142 : Benedictional
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 143–151 : Sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 152–203 : Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
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- 032-001101582[0447]/040-001102201
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- Record Type (Level):
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063639412.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: approximately 250 x 170 mm [ff. 2-11]; 240 x 150 mm [ff. 12-142]; 220 x 155 mm [ff. 143-15]; approximately 235 x 155 mm [ff. 152-203] (text space: approximately 220 x 140 mm [ff. 2-11]; 190 x 115 mm [ff. 12-142]; 100 x 125 mm [ff. 143-15]; approximately 200 x 145 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 152-203]).
Foliation: ff. 203 ( + 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 9 at the end); 1 unfoliated modern paper leaf between f. 11 and f. 12; and f. 151 and f. 152; a modern paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [ii] recto; all parchment leaves have been mounted on paper frames.
Script: Protogothic (ff. 2r-10v; 12r-142r; 152r-203v); Gothic (ff. 11r, 143r-151r).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown half-leather binding, Cotton’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘PRAYERS, ETC.’; rebound on 21 June 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplates gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his name inscribed on f. 2r (‘Robertus Cotton’); f. 1r contains a table of contents, added by Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), librarian for Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631); the manuscript is listed in his catalogues (see Colin G.C. Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 106).
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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 35.
Boffey, Julia, and Anthony S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), p. 63 (no. 914/2).
Brückmann, John, ‘Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales’, Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 435).
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth Psalter: An Account of a Manuscript Formerly Belonging to O. Turville-Petre Esq. of Bosworth Hall Now Addit. Ms 37517 at the British Museum (London: Belll, 1908), pp. 27 n. 2, 29-30, 34, 36, 69, 71.
Gray, Douglas, ‘A Middle English Illustrated Poem’, in Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett, ed. by P. L. Heyworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 185-205 (pp. 187, pl. 1d, 189, 194).
James, Montague Rhodes, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St Martin's Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 524.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
Pfaff, Richard William, 'The Calendar', in The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret T. Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard William Pfaff, Publications of the Modern Humanities Research Association, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1992), pp. 62-87 (pp. 63, 68, 82).
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 106.
Wormald, Francis, English Benedictine Kalendars after A. D. 1100, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society, 77, 81 (London: Harrison, 1939-1946), I (1939): Abbotsbury-Durham, pp. 63, 68-79.
- 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.