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Cotton MS Claudius A XII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102462
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00030f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063644613.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A XII
- Title:
- Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'.
ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’.
ff. 84v-195v: Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds.
ff. 196r-197v: William de Montibus (d. 1213), Poeniteas Cito (I Urge You to Repent).
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 3r-4v: A list of citations including references to the De Civitate Dei (The City of God) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) (f. 3v), and including the heading ‘De sacrificiis’ (f. 4v).
[ff. 1v, 2v, 4r, 83v, 84r, 101v, 109v, 118r, 198r are blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton Claudius A XII, ff. 3-83, Cotton Claudius A XII, ff 84-199.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102462 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A XII : Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register;… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 84–199 : Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 3–83 : Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus
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- 032-001101582[0560]/040-001102462
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- Record Type (Level):
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063644613.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1450
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: ff. 5r-83r: 255 × 170 mm (text space: 185/190 x 105/110 mm); ff. 84r-195v: 255 x 170 mm (text space: 165/175 x 105/110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 199 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house: gold-tooled and blind-stamped brown leather; Cotton's arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: 'HISTORIA etc'. Rebound in March 1865.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
? John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609): mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: added the astrological sign of Jupiter may perhaps have been added by him (f. 1r), see Tite, The Early Records (2003), pp. 15 (n. 97), 258.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), pp. 122-23); table of contents written by his librarian Richard James (f. 2r); his pressmark on f. 2r; his binding instruction on f. 3r; his arms (front outside cover).
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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Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ (Oxford, Sheldon: 1696), p. 39.
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 191.
Halleux, Robert, ‘Damigéron, Evax et Marbode: L’Héritage Alexandrin Dans les Lapidaires Médiévaux’, Studi medievali 15 (1974), 327-47 (p. 330).
Hanawalt, Emily Albu, ‘Dudo of Saint-Quentin: the Heroic Past Imagined’, Haskins Society Journal, 6 (1994), 111-18 (p. 115).
Herrera, María Ester, ‘La historia del texto del Liber lapidum de Marbodo de Rennes a través de los manuscritos provenientes de las bibliotecas francesas del siglo XII’, in Du Copiste au Collectionneur: Mélanges d’Histoire des Textes et des Bibliothèques en l’honneur d’André Vernet, ed. by Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda and Jean-François Genest, Bibliologia: Elementa ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 153-68.
Huisman, Gerda A., ‘Notes on the manuscript tradition of Dudo of St Quentin’s Gesta Normannorum’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 6 (1983), 122-35.
John Dee’s Library Catalogue, ed. by Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson, (London: Bibliographical Society, 1990), pp. 23-24.
Marbode of Rennes' De Lapidibus, ed. by Charles William King and John M. Riddle, Sudhoffs Archiv Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte 20 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977), pp. 34-91.
De Moribus et Actis Primorum Normanniæ Ducum Auctore Dudone Sancti Quintini Decano, ed. by Jules Lair, Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, XXIII (Caen: Blanc-Hardel, 1865), pp. 129-298.
Shopskow, Leah, ‘The man from Vermandois: Dudo of St-Quentin and his patrons’, Religion, Text, and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe: Essays in Honor of J. N. Hillgarth, ed. by Thomas E. Burman, Mark D. Meyerson and Leah Shopkow (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2002), pp. 302-18 (p. 310).
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 122-23.
- 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.