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Cotton MS Claudius C VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102502
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000321
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063637326.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius C VI
- Title:
- Polemius Silvius, Nomina Provinciarum Omnium; Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Galliae; letters of Popes Leo I and Zosimus; a tree of consanguinity; Burchard of Worms, Decretum; a bull of Pope Leo IX; obituary of William I, king of England (1066–87); confraternity agreements; obituaries of Prior Conrad of St Benet of Hulme (d. 1127), and Priors Wibert (d. 1167) and Honorius (d. 1188) of Christ Church, Canterbury; obituary of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89); lectionary fragment; Lanfranc of Bec, Consuetudines; obituary of Louis VII, king of France (1137–80)
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 5-169), produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in France (ex. info Michael Gullick), contains a collection of historical and legal works, predominantly the Decretum (Decretals) − a collection of canon law − by Burchard (b. c. 965, d. 1024), bishop of Worms.
The second part (ff. 170-204) was produced at various stages during the 12th century at the Cathedral Priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury. It contains various documents (obituaries and confraternity agreements) related to Christ Church, and the Consuetudines (Constitutions) of Lanfranc (b. c. 1010, d. 1089), archbishop of Canterbury. This part was originally part of Royal MS 7 E V, which contains a martyrology of Christ Church. The manuscript also contains two flyleaves from a fifteenth-century theological text of which other leaves can be found in a number of other Cotton manuscripts: Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 157–164, Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff. 145–158, Cotton MS Cleopatra E I, ff. 184, 188, 312, and Cotton MS Cleopatra E IV, ff. 1, 475. The two parts and flyleaves were joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631).
Contents:
f. 5r: Polemius Silvius, Nomina Provinciarum Omnium (Names of All the Provinces), an excerpt from the so-called Laterculus [see Chronica Minora, ed. by Mommsen (1892), pp. 535-42].
ff. 5r-6r: Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Galliae (Notice of the Provinces and Cities in Gaul) [see Chronica Minora, ed. by Mommsen (1892), pp. 584-612].
ff. 6r-7v: Letters of Popes Leo I (440–61) and Zosimus (417–18).
f. 8r: A tree of consanguinity (arbor consanguinitatis).
ff. 8v-168r: Burchard of Worms, Decretum.
ff. 168r-169r: A bull of Pope Leo IX (1049–54).
f. 170v: Obituary of William I, king of England (1066–87).
ff. 171r, 172r-172v: Confraternity agreements.
f. 171v: Obituaries of Prior Conrad of St Benet of Hulme (d. 1127), and Priors Wibert (d. 1167) and Honorius (d. 1188) of Christ Church, Canterbury.
f. 173r: An obituary of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89).
f. 174r: A lectionary fragment, featuring lections for the dedication of a church.
ff. 174v-202r: Lanfranc, Consuetudines.
f. 203r: An obituary of Louis VII, king of France (1137–80).
ff. 203r-203v: A grant to Louis VII by the Archbishop of Canterbury to join the prayer confraternity of Christ Church.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 1r-1v [bound upside down] and ff. 205r-205v: A theological text on vices and virtues, written in a 15th-century script.
f. 3r: A table of contents, added by Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), librarian for Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631).
f. 4r: A title-page to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, The Works both Morall and Natural, trans. by T. Lodge (London, 1614): engraving displaying the philosophers Zeno, Chrysippus, Socrates and Cato by William Hole (d. 1624).
[ff. 2r, 2v, 3v, 169v, 170r, 173v, and 202r, 204r, 204v are empty].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Claudius C VI, f 1; Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff 5–169; Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff 170–203; Cotton MS Claudius C VI, f 205
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102502 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius C VI : Polemius Silvius, Nomina Provinciarum Omnium; Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Galliae; letters of Popes Leo I and… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Claudius C VI, f 1 : Theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff 5–169 : Polemius Silvius, Nomina Provinciarum Omnium; Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Galliae; letters of Popes Leo…
Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff 170–203 : Obituary of William I, king of England (1066–87); confraternity agreements; obituaries of Prior Conrad of…
Cotton MS Claudius C VI, f 205 : Theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063637326.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm [f. 1]; 320 x 215 mm [ff. 2-172]; 190 x 235 mm [f. 173]; 320 x 215 mm [ff. 174-204]; 295 x 210 mm [f. 205] (text space: 225 x 145 mm, in 1 column [ff. 1r-1v]; 250 x 140 mm, in 1 column [ff. 5r-169r]; approximately 260 x 180 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 170v-172v]; 170 x 210 mm, in 2 columns [f. 173r]; approximately 260 x 180 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 174r-202r]; 225 x 145 mm, in 1 column [ff. 205r-205v]).
Foliation: ff. 205 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 2-4 and 204 are early modern endleaves; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 3 and f. 4; and f. 12 and f. 13; 3 between f. 169 and f. 170; 172 and 173; and 175 and 176; 4 after f. 205; a paper leaf (title-page) has been pasted on f. 3r; a paper pastedown pasted on f. [iv]recto (bibliographical notes) and f. [207]verso (note of examination); f. 1 has been bound upside down; f. 173 has been bound at a quarter turn; the lower half of f. 170 has been replaced with new parchment; the quires have been mounted onto paper guards; 17th-century foliation throughout the manuscript (crossed out).
Script: Protogothic; Gothic (ff. 1r-1v, 205r-205v).
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house, rebound in 1976: brown half-leather binding with Cotton’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘COLLECTIO CANONUM, PER BORCHARDUM EPISC. WORMATIENS’; the 1863 British Museum binding is kept separately.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplates gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; the manuscript is listed in his catalogues; a table of contents in the hand of his librarian Richard James has been added on f. 3r; his fore-edge inscription; his pressmark on f. 1v; his ‘Jupiter mark’ on f. 2r; his binding instructions on f. 1r: ‘Bind this [...]’; a printed title-page added to f. 4r in his library; his quire letters added to first rectos (see Colin G.C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 125, 249, 254, 255, 258, 259, 261)
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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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 194.
Chronica Minora Saec. IV. V. VI. VII., ed. by Theodor Mommsen, 3 vols, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiquissimi, 9, 11, 13 (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892-1898), I (1892), pp. 535-42, 584-612.
De Bréquigny, Louis George Oudard Feudrix, Lettres de rois, reines et autres personnages des cours de France et d'Angleterre depuis Louis VII jusqu'à Henri IV, 2 vols, Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, Series 1: Histoire Politique (Paris: Champollion-Figeac, 1839-1847), I (1839): De l'année 1162 à 1300, pp. 12-15 [edition of ff. 203r-203v].
De Vregille, Bernard, ‘Besançon et Lausanne: métropolitains et suffragants des origines au XIe siècle’, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Kirchengeschichte, 82 (1988), 86–87 (p. 86 n. 2).
Fleming, Robin, ‘History and Liturgy at Pre-Conquest Christ Church’, The Haskins Society Journal, 6 (1994), 67-84 (p. 67 n. 2).
Gelin, Marie-Pierre, Lumen ad revelationem gentium: iconographie et liturgie à Christ Church, Canterbury, 1175-1220 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006).
Gibson, Margaret, Lanfranc of Bec (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 227–29.
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014), p. 246 (no. 317).
Gneuss, Helmut, ‘Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), no. 317.
James, Montague Rhodes, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St Martin's Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 525.
Kéry, Lotte, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 137.
McKitterick, Rosamond, ‘Exchanges between the British Isles and the Continent, c. 450-c. 900’, in TheCambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume I: c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 313-37 (p. 330 n. 109).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35
Robinson, J. Armitage, ‘Lanfranc’s Monastic Constitutions’, Journal of Theological Studies, 10 (1909), 384–88 (p. 384).
The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, ed. and trans. by David Knowles, rev. by Christopher N. L. Brooke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), pp. xlv–xlviii.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 125.
Watson, Andrew G., The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 19.
Webber, Teresa, ‘The Script’, in The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret T. Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard William Pfaff, Publications of the Modern Humanities Research Association, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1992), pp. 13-24 (p. 23).
Webber, Teresa, ‘Script and Manuscript Production at Christ Church, Canterbury, after the Norman Conquest’, in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon, 1995), p. 157.
Brooke, Zachary Nugent, The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 89, 97, 237.
- 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.