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Cotton MS Tiberius B V
- Record Id:
- 040-001102211
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000250
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B V
- Title:
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11th-century collection of computistical, astronomical, geographical and historical texts and Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of 5 separate items bound together in two volumes:
Cotton Tiberius B V/1 includes:
ff. 2-73, 77-88: A collection of computistical, historical and astronomical texts, including maps and diagrams;
f. 74: Documents relating to Ely Abbey;
f. 75: Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin with Old English manumissions;
f. 76: Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin with documents relating to Ely Abbey.
Cotton Tiberius B V/2 includes:
ff. 1-60: Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102211 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B V : 11th-century collection of computistical, astronomical, geographical and historical texts and Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore,… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1 : Computistical, historical and astronomical miscellany with added documents from Ely and Exeter
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/2 : Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Tiberius B V - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0449]/040-001102211
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 parchment codices
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_V (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 1350
- Date Range:
- 700-1350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment codex, with folios mounted on paper.
Dimensions: Cotton Tiberius B V/1 binding 360 × 305 mm (folios 260 x 220; text space approximately 220 x 195 mm); Cotton Tiberius B V/2 binding 350 × 305 mm (folios 260 x 225 mm, text space approximately 220 x 215 mm, including marginal annotations).
Foliation: Cotton Tiberius B V/1: ff. 88 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 between ff. 29 and 30 + 6 at the end); Cotton Tiberius B V/2: ff. 60 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, 1 between each parchment folio, and 2 at the end).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1969 (Cotton Tiberius B V/1); BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1983 (Cotton Tiberius B V/2).
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed 'Robertus Cotton Bruceus/1598' (Cotton Tiberius B V/1, f. 2r), in the first catalogue of his collection (Harley 6018, no. 178) and the Cottonian catalogue, Additional 36789 (ff. 149v-151) (see Tite, Early Records, p. 107). Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and 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 Cotton Tiberius B V/1: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
McGURK, P. and others (eds), An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 21 (Copenhagen, 1983).
- Publications:
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Austin, Greta, ‘Marvelous people or marvelous races? Race and the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East’, in Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, ed. by Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger (Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan, 2002), pp. 25–51.
Barber, Peter, ‘Medieval maps of the world’, in P. D. A. Harvey (ed.), The Hereford World Map: Medieval World Maps and their Context (London: British Library, 2006), pp. 4–8.
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898-1901; repr. 1992).
Brown, Michelle P., ‘Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur?’, in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 1998), p. 292.
Foot, Sarah, ‘Glastonbury’s early abbots’, in The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey: Essays in Honour of the Ninetieth Birthday of C. A. Ralegh Radford, ed. by Lesley Abrams and James P. Carley (Woodbridge, 1991), pp. 163–89.
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. 373.
Hughes-Hughes, Augustus, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London, 1906–09), III, p. 365.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 193.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books,2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 8, 200.
Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013), p. 25 [exhibition catalogue].
Ortenberg, Veronica, ‘Archbishop Sigeric’s journey to Rome in 990’, Anglo-Saxon England, 19 (1990), 197–246.
Semple, Sarah, ‘Illustrations of damnation in late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), 241–43.
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. 556
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 107.
- Exhibitions:
- Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi -- Itinerary of Archbishop Sigeric. Exhibited: Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-