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Cotton MS Claudius E I
- Record Id:
- 040-001102556
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000373
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056019289.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius E I
- Title:
- Theological tracts, including Anselm of Canterbury's treatises, Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum; Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce; Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Liber Esdrae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-12v: St Augustine, De Genesi Contra Manicheos (On the Genesis, against Manicheans).
ff. 12v-26r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum (On the works of the six days).
ff. 26r-33v; 146r-147r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce (On the six words of God on the Cross).
ff. 34v-38v; 147r-153v: Anselm of Canterbury, Monologion.
ff. 38v–44v: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion.
ff. 44v-48v: Anselm of Canterbury, Epistole (Epistles).
ff. 48v–54v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Processione Spiritus Sancti (On the procession of the Holy Spirit).
ff. 54v-58v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Veritate (On Truth).
ff. 58v-64v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Casu Diaboli (On the Fall of Evil).
ff. 65r-69r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi (On the incarnation of the Word).
ff. 69r-81v: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man).
ff. 81v-82v: Anselm of Canterbury, Epistola De sacrificio Azymi et Fermentati (Letter on the Sacrifice of Unleavened and Leavened Bread).
ff. 82v-86r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Grammatico (On the grammarian).
ff. 86r–92r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Concordia (On concord).
ff. 92r–97v: Explanatio Visionum Danielis, a commentary on Prophetia Danielis (attributed in the rubric to Peter Comestor).
ff. 98r–145v, 154r–173v: Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum (the Abbreviated Word) (short version, imperfect).
ff. 174r–185r: Liber Esdrae (Book of Esdras).
Decoration:
Numerous large initials with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in red and blue, at the beginning of each treatise (e. g., ff. 2r, 7r, 12v, 13r, 39r, 69r, 88r).
Small initials in red and blue.
Rubrics in red. Headings in red.
Quires signatures in Roman numerals.
Paragraphs signs added in the margins in red ink, throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102556 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius E I : Theological tracts, including Anselm of Canterbury's treatises, Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum; Arnold… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0596]/040-001102556
- 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_100056019289.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 450 x 300 mm (text space: 330 x 210 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); f. 1 is a medieval parchment trimmed off, reinforced by two early modern leaves of the same format (195 x 300 mm).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Tewkesbury. Southwestern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury: late 12th-century ownership inscription related to the donation of Alan, abbot of the abbey 'De dono domini Alani abbatis', followed by a table of contents written by the same scribe (f. 1v) (see Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries (2015)).
Added, 13th-century notes (e. g., ff. .102r, 173r, 125v).
Added, numerous early 14th-century pencil notes (e. g., ff. 3r, 8r, 15r).
Added, late 15th-century signature 'Joh. Harband' (f. 185v).
Sir John Prise (b. 1501/02, d. 1555), administrator and scholar: part of a group of manuscripts given to Jesus College, Oxford, cited as no. 33 in the list entitled 'Nomina librorum manuscriptorum ex donatione Ioannis Prise Equitis Aurati Herefordensis', according to Ker, 'Sir John Prise' (1955); perhaps his tables of contents on a strip of parchment pasted onto f. 3r, the same parchment is found on f. 1r with Gregory Prise's pen trial.
Gregory Prise (b. 1535, d. 1600), eldest son of Sir John Prise and the principal executor of his will: his signature and several pen trials (ff. 1r, 186r), 'Prise esquire one of the Justices of the Pece' (f. 186r).
Jesus College, Oxford (founded in 1571): listed under the heading 'Nomina librorum manuscriptorum ex donatione Ioannis Prise Equitis Aurati Herefordensis' in a register between documents dating to 1621 and 1622 (see Ker, 'Sir John Prise' (1955)).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: perhaps acquired through Richard James (see Tite, The Early Records (2003)); pressmark of the Cotton Library (f. 2r); cited in Cotton's catalogues, now Add MS 36789 (f. 138r) and Add MS 36682, according to Tite, The Early Records (2003).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
John Hough (b. 1651, d. 1743), college head and bishop of Worcester: borrowed by him in the 1690s, according to Tite, The Early Records (2003).
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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Baldwin, John W., Masters, Princes and Merchants: The social views of Peter the Chanter and his circle, 2 vols (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), II, pp. 249–51.
Gullick, Michael, ‘A twelfth-century manuscript of the letters of Thomas Becket’, English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 2 (1990), pp. 1-31 (p. 17, n. 42).
Harris, Margaret A., ‘Alan of Tewkesbury and his letters’, Studia Monastica, 18 (1976), pp. 348–49.
Ker, N. R., 'Sir John of Pise', The Library, 10:1 (1955), 1-24 (pp. 6, 14).
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edition (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 128.
Sharpe Richard and Willoughby James, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) «http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5456/?search_term=Claudius%20E.I&page_size=500» [accessed 18 April 2017].
- 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.