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Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102327
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00029f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066146352.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
- Title:
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Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum; De VII Mirabilibus Mundi; Historia Brittonum; hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, and others; imperfect copies of Vita Beati Birini Episcopi and Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi; hagiography relating to Benedict of Nursia, Mary Magdalene and the account of the vision of the monk of Eynsham
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 3r: a medieval leaf with an early modern table of contents.
ff. 4r-27v: an obituary calendar from the Premonstratensian abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th century and the 1st half of the 16th century.
ff. 28r-58v: historical texts copied in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century in northern England, including Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum adventu (The Book About the First Arrival of the Saxons or Normans); an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum (The History of Kings); De VII Mirabilibus Mundi (About the Seven Wonders of the World); Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons).
ff. 59r-120v: hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, and others, copied in the 1st half of the 12th century and the mid-12th century.
ff. 121r-128v: imperfect copies of Vita beati Birini episcopi and Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita sancti Æthelwoldi, copied in the 1st quarter of the 12th century. These folios originally formed the endleaves of this manuscript contained in ff. 59r-120v and ff. 129r-209v.
ff. 129r-209v: hagiography relating to Benedict of Nursia, Mary Magdalene and the account of the vision of the monk of Eynsham, copied between the 1st half of the 12th century and 1st half of the 14th century.
The former f. 1, which contained a leaf from a mid-14th-century Psalter, has been removed and now forms the lower half of Royal MS 13 D I*, f. 7.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102327 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII : Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 4–27 : Beauchief obituary calendar
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 28–58 : Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu ending with an epitome of Symeon of Durham, Historia…
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 59–120 : Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Wilfridi Archiepiscopi; Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte…
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 121–128 : Vita Beati Birini Episcopi (imperfect); Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi Episcopi (imperfect)
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 129–209 : Adrevald of Fleury, Aduentus et Exceptio Sancti Benedicti et Scholastice; Adrevald of Fleury, Miracula…
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A parchment codex
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century - 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 160 mm.
Foliation: ff. 209 (where f. 1 has been removed, ff. 2 and 3 contain medieval leaves reused as early modern endleaves, + 1 parchment endleaf after f. 209 + 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1951.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. 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.
- Publications:
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Addy, Sidney Oldall, Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey (Oxford: James Parker, 1878), pp. 22–60.
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 3 [exhibition catalogue].
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992).
Carley, James P., and Colin G. C. Tite, ‘Sir Robert Cotton as collector of manuscripts and the question of dismemberment: British Library MSS Royal 13 D. I and Cotton Otho D. VIII’, The Library, 14 (1992), 94–99.
Colvin, H. M., The White Canons in England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951), p. 387.
D’Ardenne, S., ‘Un extrait peu connu de l’Historia Brittonum de Nennius (MS Liège 369C)’, in Mélanges offerts à Rita Lejeune, Professeur à l’Universitè de Liège, 2 vols (Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1969), I, pp. 1–4.
D’Ardenne, S. R. T. O., and E. J. Dobson, eds, Seinte Katerine: Re-Edited from MS Bodley 34 and the other Manuscripts, Early English Text Society, s.s., 7 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. xxi–xxv, 133.
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. 19, 162.
English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April-8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 80.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), nos. 368–69.
Hey, David, Lisa Liddy and David Luscombe, eds, A Monastic Community in Local Society: The Beauchief Abbey Cartulary, Camden Series 5, 40 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 32-33.
Ker, N. R., ed., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 78.
Lapidge, Michael, and Michael Winterbottom, eds and trans., Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St Æthelwold (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. clxii, clxxi–clxxv.
Love, Rosalind C., ed. and trans., Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. xlix–l.
Love, Rosalind C., ed. and trans., Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints’ Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. lxxix–lxxx.
Norton, Christopher, ‘History, wisdom and illumination’, in Symeon of Durham: Historian of Durham and the North, ed. by David Rollason (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 1998), pp. 76–77.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 44.
Rollason, D., ed. and trans., Symeon of Durham: Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie : tract on the origins and progress of this the Church of Durham, (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 2000), p. lxxix.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1986), no. 131.
Smith, Thomas, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1696), pp. 33-34.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 114.
Tite, Colin G. C., ‘“Lost or stolen or strayed”: a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton library’, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), p. 290 and fig. 6.
Ward, H. L. D., and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London, 1883–1910), II, pp. 503–04.
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- 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.