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Cotton MS Tiberius C I
- Record Id:
- 040-001102234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000258
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066370052.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius C I
- Title:
- Cicero, Aratea with scholia; Germano-Roman Pontifical
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of two different parts of different origins, written in different times. The first part (ff. 2r-42v) was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667 from the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, and was possibly written between 1120-1135 (see Ker, 'Membra Disiecta' (1938)). It includes computus materials and an illustrated version of Cicero's Aratea.
The second part (ff. 43-203) contains a Pontifical written in Germany by two different scribes, in the mid-11th century. Between 1070 and 1100, thirteen scribes writing in England added material on blank spaces and additional leaves according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (2000), p. 30.
Contents:
ff. 2r-21r: Excerpts from Macrobius, Isidore of Seville, Pseudo-Bede and an anonymous statement on the twelve zodiac signs. It includes calendar tables, computus material and diagrams.
ff. 21r-36r: Cicero, Aratea with scholia.
ff. 36r-42v: Short anonymous astronomical texts; excerpts from Pliny's Natural History, Martianus Cappella and Macrobius.
ff. 43r-203v: Pontifical, including an added part (ff. 89r-151r) written in the second quarter of the 11th century in Sherborne and afterwards in Salisbury, includes Old English sections.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102234 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius C I : Cicero, Aratea with scholia; Germano-Roman Pontifical - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203 : A Germano-Roman Pontifical
Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 2r-42v : De temporibus, Heptametron de primordio mundi, Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, De duodecim signis
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- 032-001101582[0457]/040-001102234
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100066370052.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 11th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm. Text dimension varies.
Foliation: ff. 203 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end), f. 1 is an early modern parchment flyleaf.
Binding: Post-1600. Cottonian binding with gold-tooled arms.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 108); table of content written by his librarian Richard James (f. 1r); his arms (front outside cover).
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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Brückmann, J., ‘Latin manuscript pontificals and benedictionals in England and Wales’, Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 436).
Chardonnens, László Sándor, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: A Study of the Genre with a Text Edition (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 32-33, 181-83, 206-07, 215, 219.
Dolan, Marion, The Role of Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts in the Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, (unpublished DPhil, University of Pittsburgh, 2007), pp. 227-32, 344-45.
Doyle, Kathleen and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 160, 161.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England: c. 1066-1130 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1999), no. 404.
Hall, Thomas N., and Nathan Ristuccia, 'A Rogationtide Sermon from Eleventh-Century Salisbury', Revue Bénédictine, 123:1 (2013), 42-64.
Henderson, William George (ed.), Liber Pontificalis Chr. Bainbridge Archiepiscopi Eboracensis, Surtees Society, 61 (Durham: Andrews, 1875), pp. xxvii-xxx.
Kauffmann, C. M., Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 37.
Ker, Neil R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 196.
Ker, Neil R., 'Three Old English Texts in a Salisbury Pontifical, Cotton Tiberius C.i', in The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of their History and Culture presented to Bruce Dickens, ed. by Peter Clemoes (London: Bowes and Bowes, 1959), pp. 262-79.
Ker, Neil R., (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: The Royal Historical Society, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 151.
Ker, Neil R., ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1937–38), 130-35 (p. 132).
Liuzza, Roy Michael, ‘Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001), pp. 218–19.
Morgan, Hollie, 'Old English Items in London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C.i', Journal of New Medieval Litterature, 13 (2016), 137-47.
Morgan, Hollie, 'London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius C.i', in The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, ed. by Orietta Da Rold and others (Leicester: University of Leicester, 2013) https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Tibe.C.i.htm [accessed 25 January 2017].
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 108.
Sharpe, R., and Willoughby, J., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 24 January 2017].
Sharpe, R., and Willoughby, J., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 24 January 2017].
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1979), no. 559.
Wilcox, Jonathan, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 8 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000), p. 30.
- 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.