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Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102218
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000252
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Tiberius B VIII
- Scope & Content:
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The Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France (r. 1364–1380) (ff. 35-80), formerly bound with a 12th-century pontifical (ff. 3-34, 81-197), now separate volumes
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102218 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII : Cotton Manuscript Tiberius B VIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0451]/040-001102218
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 items, formerly bound together
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_VIII (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1365
- End Date:
- 1380
- Date Range:
- 1365-1380
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by water in 1731
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 295 × 200 mm (ff. 3-34, 81-197); approximately 290 × 210 mm (ff. 35-80)
Foliation: ff. i + 197 (divided into two volumes: ff. 149 (ff. 3-34, 81-197) + ff. 46 (ff. 35-80) ; i + 2 (ff. i, 1-2: early modern endleaves);
Binding: bound in two volumes: British Museum 1899 (ff. 3-34, 81-197); British Museum 1938 (ff. 35-80)
- Custodial History:
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Coronation Book, ff 35–80:
Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Charles V de Valois (b. 1338, d. 1380), king of France: commissioned by him in 1365: his autograph inscription: 'Ce livre du sacre des rois de France est a nous / Charles le Ve de notre nom, roy de France, et / le fimes coriger, ordener, escrire et istorier / l'an M.CCC.LX.V / Charles' (f. 74v). Added oath of the porte-Oriflame , before 1380 (f. 74v).
Charles VI de Valois (b. 1368, d. 1422), king of France: included in the inventories of the royal library at Louvre compiled in 1411 and 1413 (see Delisle 1907). John [John of Lancaster] (b. 1389, d. 1435), duke of Bedford, regent of France during the minority of Henry VI; purchased by him with the entire French royal library after the death of Charles VI: included in the inventory compiled at the request of Charles VI's executors in 1424 (see Delisle 1907). Added oath of a bishop's allegiance to the king of England, c.1450 (f. 80).
Pontifical: ff 3–34, 81–197:
Origin: Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury.
Provenance:
St Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow, in the catalogue of 1432 (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964).
Thomas Potter (fl. 1566).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), antiquary and politician, acquired by him in 1604.
Both volumes:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), antiquary and politician; included in the first catalogue of his collection (Harley MS 6018, f. 90, no. 191), and the Cottonian catalogue, Additional 36682 (ff. 77v-78). The Coronation Book and Pontifical were bound together by him after 1604.
Sir John Cotton 3rd baronet (b. 1621, d. 1702): at his death the Cotton Library became by gift national property and was incorporated into the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for ff. 35-80 only; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bibliography for ff. 3–34, 81–197:
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 90.
Bibliography for ff. 35–80:
E. S. Dewick, The Coronation Book of Charles V of France (Cotton Ms. Tiberius B.VIII), Henry Bradshaw Society, 16 (London, 1899).
L. Delisle, Recherches sur la libraire de Charles V, 2 vols. (Paris, 1907), I, p. 218; II, p. 41 no. 232.
P. E. Schramm, 'Ordines-Studien 2: Die Kronung bei den Westfranken und Franzosen', Archiv fur Urkundenforschung, 15 (1938), 3-55 (pp. 42-47).
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), I, p. 383 n. 99.
F. Avril and J. Lafaurie, La Librairie de Charles V (Paris, 1968), no. 170 [exhibition catalogue].
C. R. Sherman, The Portraits of Charles V of France (1338-1380) (New York, 1969), pp. 34-37.
F. Avril, 'Une Bible historiale de Charles V', Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstammlungen, 14-15 (1970), 45-76.
P. Contamine, 'L'Oriflamme de Saint-Denis aux XIVe et XVe siècles. Étude de symbolique religieuse et royale', Annales de l'est, 25 (1973), 179-244 (pp. 204-05, fig. 3).
R. Jackson, ‘Les manuscrits des ordines de couronnement de la bibliotheque de Charles V, roi de France’, Le Moyen Age, 82 (1976), 67-88 (pp. 67-70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 84, 85, 86-88).
C. R. Sherman, 'The Queen in Charles V's "Coronation Book": Jeanne de Bourbon and the Ordo ad reginam benedicendam', Viator , 8 (1977), 262-66.
F. Avril, Manuscript Painting at the Court of France. The Fourteenth Century (1310-1380) (London, 1978), pls 27 and 28.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library , 2 vols (London, 1979), I, no. 557.
Les fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 1981-1982 (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1981), no. 279.
C. R. Sherman, 'Taking a Second Look: Observations on the Iconography of a French Queen, Jeanne de Bourbon', in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, ed. by N. Broude and M. Garrard (New York: Harper and Row, 1982), pp. 101-17.
Anne D. Hedeman, ‘Copies in context: The Coronation of Chales V in his Grandes Chroniques de France’, in Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual, ed. by János M. Bak (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 72-97.
Anne D. Hedeman, The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques deFrance, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 112-13, pls 5, 6.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London, 1997), no. 106.
Jean-Claude Bonne, 'Images du sacre', in Le Sacre royal à l'époque de Saint Louis, ed. byJacques Le Goff and others (Paris: Gallimard, 2001), pp. 91-226 (pp. 215-24).
Carra Ferguson O'Meara, Monarchy and Consent: The Coronation Book of Charles V of France: British Library MS Tiberous B VIII (London: Harvey Miller, 2001) [with colour reproductions of all miniatures].
Richard A. Jackson, Ordines Coronationis Franciae: Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, 2 vols (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), II, pp. 454, 462, 466-69.
Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 49, pl. 40.
Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2004), no. 4 [exhibition catalogue].
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), pp. 136, 268.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress and Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pls 63-64.
Spektakel der Macht: Rituale in Alten Europa 800-1800, ed. by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger and others (Darmstadt: WBG, 2008), p. 174, no. II.26.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 138 [exhibition catalogue].
Joanna Frońska, 'The Livre du Sacre of Charles V of France: A Story of the Book', in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle (London: British Library, 2014), pp. 113-30.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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