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Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
- Record Id:
- 040-001102206
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00024f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
- Title:
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough.
- Scope & Content:
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This codex contains:
f. 1r: an early modern table of contents and notes;
f. 2r: a Cottonian frontispiece;
ff. 3r- 86v: the 'D' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, mostly written in the 11th century with some 16th-century supply leaves;
ff. 87r-v: two writs of King Cnut for 1035;
ff. 88r-90v: John Jocelyn's transcript of extracts from the 'E' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
ff. 91r-218v: Chronicle of Walter Guisborough, copied in the late 14th or early 15th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102206 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 3–86 : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D-text (imperfect)
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v : Writs of King Cnut of England
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 88r–90v : Extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, E-text, AD 1123–1131 copied by John Joscelyn
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 91r–218v : Walter of Guisborough, Chronicle; historical miscellany, including notes on Anglo-Scottish affairs
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- 032-001101582[0448]/040-001102206
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_IV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century-2nd half 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 and ink (ff. 1–87, 91–218) and paper and ink (ff. 88–90).
Dimensions: approximately 300 × 215 mm (text block ranges from 265 x 130 to 195 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 218 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end, where f. 1 is an early modern endleaf, f. 2 is a Cottonian title-page).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1849.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (f. 91v).
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:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 35.
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 157 [exhibition catalogue].
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 (p. 98 n.1).
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 106-107.
- 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)