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Cotton MS Tiberius E I
- Record Id:
- 040-001102290
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00028d
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius E I
- Title:
- John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
- Scope & Content:
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This is the only surviving copy of John Tynemouth’s Sanctilogium, a collection of lives of British saints arranged in calendrical order from January. It is currently bound in two volumes.
The lives are frequently accompanied by short prayers to the saints and occasionally by genealogies in the lower margins (vol. 2, ff. 11v-13r, Scottish royal genealogies accompanying the life of St Margaret of Scotland; vol. 2, f. 51v, Northumbrian royal genealogies accompanying the life of St Oswine).
An inscription in the lower margin of f. 6r reports that Thomas de la Mare, abbot of St Albans (1349-1396) and a former prior of Tynemouth (1341-1349), presented the manuscript to the St Albans cell at Redbourn, Hertfordshire. The inscription is now partially lost through fire damage, but an earlier transcription survives in William Nicholson, The English Historical Library (1696), p. 98: 'Hunc librum dedit Dominus Thomas de la Mare, abbas monasterii S. Albani Anglorum Proto-Martyris, Deo et Ecclesiae B. Amphibali de Reburn, ut Fratres ibidem in cursu existentes per eius lecturam poterint caelestibus instrui, et per Sanctorum Exempla virtutibus insigniri'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102290 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius E I : John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius E I/1 : John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Cotton MS Tiberius E I/2 : John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
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- 032-001101582[0478]/040-001102290
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Leaves damaged by fire.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: Approximately 320 × 200 mm (written space: approximately 265 x 175 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: Vol. 1: ff. 173 (f. 1 is an early modern flyleaf; + four unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end); Vol. 2: ff. 167 (+ two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600, British Museum binding in two volumes. Three-quarter red leather covering with gold tooling. The Cotton coat of arms is in gold on the front and back covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England. Thomas de la Mare, prior of Tynemouth (1341-1349), abbot of St Albans (1349-1396): inscribed with a record of his donation of the manuscript to the St Albans cell at Redbourn, Hertfordshire (f. 6r). Although the inscription is partly lost through fire damage, an earlier transcription survives (William Nicholson, The English Historical Library (1696), p. 98).
Redbourn Priory, Hertfordshire: see above.
?Royal Library, Westminster Palace: possibly no. 845 in the 1542 library inventory, Public Record Office, Augmentation Office, Misc. Books 160 (E. 315/160), ff. 107v-120r (see Carley, 'The Royal Library', (1992), p. 55).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: the manuscript is tentatively identified in Cotton catalogues from the 1st half of 17th century: no. 32 in Add MS 35213, f. 37; no. 201 or 208 in Harley MS 6018; Add MS 36789, f. 137; and Add MS 36681. A letter from Lord William Howard to Cotton in 1621 asking to borrow a copy of 'Johannes Anglicus' may refer to this manuscript (Cotton MS Vespasian, F. XIII, no. 318). Simonds D'Ewes asked to borrow either this manuscript or Cotton MS Otho D.IX in 1626 (see Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library (2003), pp. 111-112).
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd Baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Avantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis [BHL], Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), and Henricus Fros (ed.), Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis: Novum Supplementum, Subsidia Hagiographica, 70 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1986).
Blanton, Virginia, 'The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium', in A Companion to British Literature, 4 vols, ed. by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), I: Medieval Literature, 700-1450, pp. 65-80.
Carley, J. P., 'The Royal Library as a Source for Sir Robert Cotton's Collection: A Preliminary List of Acquisitions', The British Library Journal, 18 (1992), 52-73 (55).
Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, 3 vols (London, 1883-1910), II, pp. 425–26, 461–63, 537–38.
Horstman, Carl, ed., Nova Legenda Anglie: As Collected by John of Tynemouth, John Capgrave, and others, and first printed, with New Lives, by Wynkyn de Worde a.d. mdxui, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901).
Ker, Neil R., ed., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 158.
Nicholson, William, The English Historical Library, 2nd edn (London: Timothy Child and Robert Knaplock, 1714), p. 98.
Rigg, A. G., A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422 (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1992), pp. 257-58.
Smith, Thomas, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Cottonianae (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1696), pp. 28-29.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sire Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 111-112.
The Life of Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth Century Recluse, rev. edn, ed. and trans. by C. H. Talbot (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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The two volumes of this manuscript are Cotton MS Tiberius E I/1 and Cotton MS Tiberius E I/2. Portions of this manuscript are also found in Cotton MS Fragments XXXII.