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Cotton MS Tiberius C III
- Record Id:
- 040-001102241
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00025a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100065007283.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius C III
- Title:
- Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect)
ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabilis Bede presbiteri qui gemma anime intitulatur. Agmen in castris eterni regis excubans', ending: 'laborantes copiosum fructum in gaudio metant. Explicit'.
Decoration:
One large initial 'A' for 'Agmen', with penwork decoration and foliate motifs in red, blue and green (f. 4r).
Initials in red and/or green, some with penwork decoration, throughout.
Some letters highlighted in red. Rubrics in red. Catchwords.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102241 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius C III : Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0459]/040-001102241
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100065007283.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm (text space 220 x 145 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end), f. 1 is an early modern paper flyleaf; ff. 2-92 are from a late 15th-century liturgical noted book used as flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library, in-house, 1852.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
An unknown medieval owner: added penwork decoration in black or/and red inks (e. g., f. 20v).
An unknown late 15th-century owner: added two verses and two-line epigrams on Thomas Becket's martyrdom 'Quis moritur? Thomas. Cur? pro grege. qualiter? ense. Quando? natali. Quis locus? ara Dei' (f. 91v).
Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: cited in his catalogue (see Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile of Banke' (1908) and Watson, 'The manuscripts of Henry Savile' (1969)).
James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and scholar: loaned to him by Henry Savile of Banke, according to the latter's catalogue (see Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile of Banke' (1908) and Watson, 'The manuscripts of Henry Savile' (1969)).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his signature 'Robertus Cotton Bruceus 1618' (f. 4r); Cotton's shelfmark (f. 3v); a table of contents written by Richard James, Cotton's librarian (f. 1r), cited in his catalogues, Harley MS 6018, no. 212; Add MS 36789, f. 157; Add MS 36682, according to Tite, The Early Records (2003).
John Selden (b. 1584, d. 1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar: borrowed the volume from Cotton, according to Tite, The Early Records (2003).
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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Gilson, J. P., 'The Library of Henry Savile, of Banke', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 9 (1906-1908), 127-210 (p. 162).
Petrovskaia, Natalia, 'The Travels of a Quire from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First: The Case of Rawlison B 484, fols. 1-6', in Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift Dedicated to Toshiyuki, ed. by Simon Horobin and Linne R. Mooney (York: University of York Press, 2014), pp. 250-67 (p. 266).
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum, ed. by Joseph Planta (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 37.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 108.
Watson, A. G., The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1969), no. 40.
Watson, A. G., Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot: Variorum, 2004), Article 9, p. 40.
- 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.