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Cotton MS Claudius A VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102444
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00030b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064570867.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A VI
- Title:
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Cartulary of Boxgrove Priory; Ivo of Chartres, Sermones; Epistolae; Marbod of Rennes, Epistola V; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistola X; anonymous monk ('G') of Pontlevoy, three letters
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains two parts that were separately produced at different locations and periods of time. The first part (ff. 1-155) contains the Latin cartulary of the Benedictine priory of St Mary and St Blaise at Boxgrove in the diocese of Chichester that was written by several scribes in the 13th and 14th centuries. The second part (ff. 156-293), written in the first half of the 12th century, contains sermons and letters by Ivo of Chartres (d. 1116), Marbodius (b. c. 1035, d. 1123), archdeacon at Angers and Bishop of Rennes, and Hildebert of Lavardin (b. c. 1055, d. 1133), Bishop of Le Mans and Archbishop of Tours. The parchment and script of ff. 156-292 suggest an origin in South France (ex. info Michael Gullick). The two parts may have been joined together in the 17th century, perhaps in the library of their first known owner Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1573, d. 1631) (see The Chartulary of Boxgrove Priory, trans. by Fleming (1960), p. xxvii). However, it is not clear from his extant loan lists and catalogues whether the two parts already were joined together when they entered his collection (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), pp. 121-22). It is also possible that both parts were joined together much earlier, at Boxgrove Priory. In this case, the second part may have arrived there through the priory’s connection with its French mother house, the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy, or that of Lessay’s mother house: the Benedictine abbey of Bec in Normandy.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 4r-155v: The cartulary of the priory of the Blessed Virgin and St Blaise at Boxgrove.
Part 2:
ff. 156r-174v: Ivo of Chartres, Sermones (Sermons).
ff. 175r-284v: Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae (Letters).
ff. 285r-287v: Marbodius of Rennes, Epistola V.
ff. 287v-290r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistola X.
ff. 290r-292v: An anonymous monk (‘G’) from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Laumer at Blois, three letters addressed to an anonymous monk (‘G’) from and community of the Benedictine abbey of Pontlevoy.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
f. 293v: A note in French regarding taxation of goods delivered for the Keeper of the Wardrobe, dated to 1350: ‘la somme to[lle] hors pris la somme dout le Garderobe du Roi ent ferra deliverance regardes des dames Chambrelein Tresorer et Garderober’.
f. 3r: A table of contents added in the 17th century in the library of Sir Robert Cotton.
f. [iv] verso: A note about the removal of two flyleaves (f. 1 and f. 294) in 1912.
[ff. 2r, 2v, 3v, 48v, 293r, 293v are blank].
Decoration:
See the separate descriptions for parts 1 and 2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102444 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A VI : Cartulary of Boxgrove Priory; Ivo of Chartres, Sermones; Epistolae; Marbod of Rennes, Epistola V; Hildebert of… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Claudius A VI, ff 156-293 : Ivo of Chartres, Sermones; Epistolae; Marbod of Rennes, Epistola V; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistola X;…
Cotton MS Claudius A VI, ff 4-155 : Cartulary of Boxgrove Priory
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- 032-001101582[0556]/040-001102444
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- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064570867.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 155 mm (text space: approximately 210/180 x 120/100 mm [ff. 1-155]; approximately 200/190 x 110 mm [ff. 156-292]).
Foliation: ff. 293 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); 2 parchment flyleaves containing fragments of a mid-fourteenth-century Psalter (former f. 1 and f. 294) have been removed and rebound in Royal MS 13 D I/1 as f. 6 and f. 7 (upper half) on 16 December 1912 (for the history of these leaves see Sandler, Survey (1986), no. 131; Carley and Tite, ‘Question of Dismemberment’ (1992), 94-99; and Tite, ‘Lost or stolen or strayed’ (1997), p. 290 and fig. 6); 2 parchment stubs between f. 92 and f. 93; 1 paper stub between f. 107 and f. 108; and f. 109 and f. 110; 3 paper stubs between f. 119 and f. 120; 2 parchment stubs between f. 125 and f. 126; a parchment pastedown on f. 97r; ff. 102, 105, and 121 are paper frames for smaller pieces of parchment; several leaves have lost corners and parts of their lower margins and have been repaired with new parchment (causing some loss of text); early modern foliation throughout the manuscript (crossed out).
Script: Protogothic (ff. 156-292); Gothic (ff. 1-155).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house (1860); gold-tooled and blind-stamped brown leather, Cotton’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: ‘REGISTRUM CARTARUM MONASTERII DE BOXGRAVE, COM. SUSSEX. IVONIS CARNOTENSIS EPISCOPI, SERMONES, ETC.’.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
?The Benedictine priory of St Mary and St Blaise at Boxgrove, owned in the 13th and 14th centuries: the two parts of this composite manuscript may have been joined together at the priory.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his table of contents (f. 3r); his name inscribed in the lower margin of f. 5r (‘Ro: Cotton Bruceus’); his loan lists and catalogues: Add MS 35213, f. 43v (or Cotton MS Otho C VIII); Harley MS 6018, no. 283; and Add MS 36682 (articles 1-3) (see Colin G.C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 121).
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:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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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 [on former f. 1 and f. 294].
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 189.
Chartulary of the Priory of Boxgrove, trans. by Lindsay Fleming, Sussex Record Society Publications, 59 (Lewes: Sussex Record Society, 1960), passim.
Davis, Godfrey Rupert Carless, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London: Longmans, 1958), no. 63.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 5 (London: Miller, 1986), no. 131 [on former f. 1 and f. 294].
Sims, Richard, 'Account of the Existing Cartularies of Religious Houses in Sussex', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 42 (1886), 355-78 (p. 358).
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 Christopher J. Wright and (London: The British Library, 1997), p. 290 and fig. 6 [on former f. 1 and f. 294].
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 121-22.
- 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.