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Cotton MS Claudius D IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001102547
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00032e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062972859.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius D IX
- Title:
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Decretals; Collectio Lanfranci
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written at different periods of time. The first part (ff. 1-5) was produced in England in the second half of the 13th century and contains parts of papal and conciliar decretals. The second part (ff. 7-239) was perhaps produced at Bath in the first quarter of the 12th century and contains the complete text of the so-called Collectio Lanfranci (Lanfranc’s Collection), a collection of decretals made in the 11th century and attributed to Lanfranc of Bec (b. 1005, d. 1089).
Contents:
ff. 1r-5v: Decretals with marginal glosses.
ff. 7v-239v: Collectio Lanfranci.
Decoration:
See the separate descriptions for Cotton MS Claudius D IX, ff. 1-5; ff. 7-239.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102547 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius D IX : Decretals; Collectio Lanfranci - Contains:
- Cotton MS Claudius D IX, ff 1-5 : Decretales (imperfect)
Cotton MS Claudius D IX, ff 7-239 : Collectio Lanfranci
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Claudius D IX - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0591]/040-001102547
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100062972859.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century - 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: ff. 1r-5v: 320 x 215 mm (text space: 320 x 215 mm); ff. 7v-239v: 310 x 220 mm (text space: 260 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 239 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r-5v); Protogothic (ff. 7v-239v).
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1988.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 128); table of content written by his librarian Richard James (f. 6r); his arms (upper 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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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 197.
Brooke, Nugent Zachary, The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 231-35.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 97 (no. 372).
Gullick, Michael, 'The English-Owned Manuscripts of the Collectio Lanfranci (s. xi/xii)', in The Legacy of M. R. James: Papers from the 1995 Cambridge Symposium, ed. by Lynda Dennison (Donington: Tyas, 2001), pp. 99-117 (pp. 107-08).
Gullick, Michael, 'The Scribe of the Carilef Bible: A New Look at Some Late-Eleventh-Century Durham Cathedral Manuscripts', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda I. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 61-83 (p. 80).
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), pp. 116, 240.
- 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.