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Cotton MS Claudius A III
- Record Id:
- 040-001102422
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000308
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060427426.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A III
- Title:
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Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a compilation, containing parts of three separate Pontificals copied between late 10th or early 11th and 12th centuries (two of which include coronation ordos); some records pertaining to Christ Church which were originally copied into the Gospel-book in Cotton Tiberius A II between the 11th and early 12th century; miniatures produced in England and Germany in the early 12th century and the later Middle Ages; and lawcodes and a poem associated with the earliest of the Pontificals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102422 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A III : Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures - Contains:
- Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7 : Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman documents
Cotton MS Claudius A III, f 8 : Miniature of St Dunstan enthroned
Cotton MS Claudius A III, f 9a : Papal letters
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 9b–18 : Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical II’, imperfect)
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 19–29 : Third English Coronation Order (‘Claudius Pontifical III’)
Cotton MS Claudius A III, f 30 : Miniature of a man seated at a writing-desk and medieval memoranda
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38 : Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 39–86 : Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical I’, imperfect)
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 87–105 : Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical II’, imperfect)
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 106–136 : Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical I’, imperfect)
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 137–150 : Benedictional
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Claudius A III - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0553]/040-001102422
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060427426.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 11th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 250 × 170 mm (leaves 240 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 150 (where f. 1 and the 2 unfoliated parchment leaves before after f. 1 are early modern endleaves and the unfoliated leaf after f. 150 is a medieval endleaf + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Binding: Post-1600 Cottonian, 1st half of the 17th century (repaired at the British Museum in 1851).
- Custodial History:
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (f. 2r).
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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Gittos, Helen, 'Sources for the liturgy of Canterbury Cathedral in the Central Middle Ages', Transactions of the British Archaeological Association, 35 (2013), 41-58.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 188-89.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 121.
Turner, D. H. (ed.), The Claudius Pontificals, Henry Bradshaw Society, 97 (Chichester: Regnum Press, 1971) [includes edition of the pontifical and benedictionals].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)