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Cotton MS Claudius D III
- Record Id:
- 040-001102527
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000329
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165157734.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius D III
- Title:
- Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: an index to the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 52r-140v), A-H, written in the hand of Robert Cotton’s librarian, Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), with an additional list of contents (f. 2r).
f. 3r: a rejected leaf from a martyrology, written in Latin.
f. 3v: Simon of Waverley, Verse prayer to the nuns of Wintney Priory, added in the 13th century; written in Anglo-Norman French, beginning, 'Vus ke lisez cest escrit / oez que frere Symon dit' (Dean, A Guide to Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), No. 953).
f. 3v: a brief inventory of the refectory of Wintney Priory, written in Latin; dated 1436.
f. 4r-v: a rejected leaf from a martyrology, written in Latin.
f. 5r-v: a set of instructions for understanding the lunar calendar and for pronouncing the Latin dates in the martyrology (ff. 6r-51v), including Anglo-Norman French equivalents for the cardinal numbers from I to XXX, beginning, 'Sachez vus ke lire devez on capital ke ausi cum la lune...' (Dean, A Guide to Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), No. 344).
ff. 6r-51v: Bede, Martyrology, organised by calendar month, written and glossed in Latin by a number of different hands added obits (ff. 18v, 31r, 37r, 51v).
ff. 52r-140r: The Rule of St Benedict, a bilingual version of the rule written in alternating Latin and Old English.
ff. 140v-162r: an obituary calendar of Wintney Priory, with obits added up to the 15th century, written in a number of different hands.
ff. 163r-164v: an index to the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 52r-140v), I-Z, written in the hand of Richard James.
162v is blank.
Decoration:
21 large 'KL' initials in blue or red with red and blue pen-flourishing accompanying the Martyrology and obituary calendar (ff. 6r, 10r, 13v, 24v, 28v, 32v, 36v, 40v, 44v, 140v, 142v, 144v, 146v, 148v, 150v, 152v, 154v, 156v, 158v, 160v, 162v).
Red and blue initials with red and blue pen-flourishing.
Rubricated headings.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102527 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius D III : Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0586]/040-001102527
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165157734.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1215
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- c 1220-1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Condition: Lower part of f. 159 and the outside of f. 4 missing. The edges of folios ff. 6-140 have been cut, as indicated by missing text in the glosses and other marginalia (ff. 18v, 33v, 58r, 59r-v, 134v).
Dimensions: 340 x 250 mm (text space: 235 x 175 mm (ff. 6r-51v); 240 x 155 mm (ff. 52r-140r)).
Foliation: ff. 164 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Protogothic; Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house (1859). Gold-tooled brown leather binding, gold-stamped with the Cottonian arms on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Cistercian nunnery of Wintney Priory, Hampshire, owned between the 13th and 15th centuries: Simon of Waverley's verse prayer dedicated to the nuns of Wintney Priory (f. 3v); the inventory of items in the priory's refectory (f.. 3v); the days of death of nuns and priests associated with priory from the 13th to the 15th centuries recorded in the obituary calendar (ff. 140v-162r).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his signature, 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus' (f. 3r); an index and list of contents in the hand of his librarian Richard James (ff. 1r-2v, 163r-164v); listed in his catalogues, Harley MS 6018, no. 204; Add MS 36789, f. 134v; Add MS 36682 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 126).
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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Charles, Sara, ‘The Literacy of English Nuns in the Early Thirteenth Century: Evidence from London, British Library, Cotton MS Claudius D. iii’, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 6 (2017), pp. 77-107.
Dean, Ruth J. and Maureen B. M. Boulton (eds), Anglo Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series No. 3 (London, 1999), nos 344, 953.
Gretsch, Mechthild, ‘Æthelwold’s translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar’, Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (1973), pp. 125–51.
Gretsch, Mechtild and Arnold Schröer (eds.), Die Winteney-Version der Regula S. Benedicti (Tübingen, 1978).
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 204.
Krochalis, Jeanne E., ‘The Benedictine Rule for nuns: Library of Congress, MS 4’, Manuscripta, 30 (1986), pp. 21-34.
Meyer, Paul, ‘Bribes de littérature anglo-normande’, Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur 7 (1866), pp. 37-57.
Mills, Edward, '‘Issi devez pronuncier la lune’: an Anglo-Norman guide to the lunar calendar in London, British Library, MS Cotton Claudius D III', Medium Ævum, 90 (2021), 53-69.
Schröer, Arnold (ed.), Der Winteney-Version der Regula S. Benedicti (Halle a. S., 1888).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)