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Cotton MS Tiberius C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102252
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00025e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius C VII
- Title:
- Henry Knighton, Chronicle, to AD 1396 (Boffey 1654–55, 1790.8, 1791)
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): Latin, with documents in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102252 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius C VII : Henry Knighton, Chronicle, to AD 1396 (Boffey 1654–55, 1790.8, 1791) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0463]/040-001102252
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: parchment (ff. i, 1, 3–240); paper (f. 2)
Dimensions: approximately 340 × 255 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 240; i + 2 (ff. i, 1–2: early modern endleaves) + 237 (ff. 3–239) + 1 (f. 240: early modern endleaf)
Binding: British Museum 1964
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: (?)Sir John Hunt (d. c. 1615); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Leicester Abbey
- Publications:
- Boffey, Julia, & A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005); Gullick, Michael, & Teresa Webber, ‘Summary catalogue of surviving manuscripts from Leicester Abbey’, in Joanna Story, Jill Bourne & Richard Buckley (eds.), Leicester Abbey: Medieval history, archaeology and manuscript studies (Leicester, 2006), p. 183; Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 113; Lumby, Joseph Rawson, ed., Chronicon Henrici Knighton vel Cnitthon Monachi Leycestrensis, 2 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1889–95); Martin, Geoffrey, ‘Henry Knighton’s Chronicle and Leicester Abbey’, in Story et al., Leicester Abbey, pp. 119–25; Martin, G. H., ed. and trans., Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396 (Oxford, 1995)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)