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Cotton MS Claudius E V
- Record Id:
- 040-001102569
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000377
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056021173.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius E V
- Title:
- Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Pseudo-Gregory the Great, Decreta; Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury; Ralph d'Escures, Letter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-2v: Notitia Regionum et Provinciarum (Names of Regions and Provinces), beginning: 'Incipiunt Nomina .XI. regionum continentium infra se provincias CXIII'.
ff. 2v-231v: Pseudo-Isidore (Isidore Mercator), Decretales (Decretals), preceded by a preface (ff. 2v-4r), beginning: 'In nomine Domini nostri Ihesu Christi. Incipit prefatio sancti Isidori episcopi libri huius. Isidorus Mercator servus Christi lectori conservo suo et parens in domino fidei salutem'.
ff. 231v-234v: Excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History), Book 1 chapter 27.
ff. 234-235r: Excerpt from Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales, named Decreta Gregorii (Decrets of Gregory the Great).
ff. 235r-v: Excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History), Book 1 chapter 30.
ff. 235v-255v: A cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury containing decrees, papal privileges and letters related to the cathedral priory, some of them are forgeries (see Southern, 'The Canterbury forgeries' (1958)), beginning: 'Decretum Bonifacii. De perpetua inhabitatione monachorum in metropolis sede Dorobernie'. It also includes a letter of Ralph d’Escures, archbishop of Canterbury (1114–22), regarding the dispute with York, beginning: 'Epistula Radulfi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis calixto [erased] missa querentis de iniuria sibi' (ff. 249v-254v).
f. 256r: A table of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Decoration:
Large decorated initials in red, green and blue with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs, throughout (e. g., ff. 4v, 14r, 16v, 41v, 52r).
Initials in red, purple or green or multicolours with penwork and foliage decoration.
Rubrics in red. Quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102569 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius E V : Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0600]/040-001102569
- 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_100056021173.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 440 x 335 mm (text space: 330 x 220 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 256 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end, + 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library, in-house. Rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church Canterbury: a related cartulary and a copied letter from the archbishop of Canterbury Ralph of Escures (from 1114 to 1122) (ff. 235v-255v); typical decoration (see Gullick, 'Manuscrits et copistes normands en Angleterre' (1999)).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his ownership inscription (f. 2r); a table of contents written by Cotton's librarian Richard James (f. 1r); cited in Cottonian catalogues, see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 129; borrowed by Patrick Young, George Calvert and James Usher, who added notes to ff. 231r, 235r.
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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Bovey, Alixe, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 5-6, pl. 2.
Dodwell, C. R., The Canterbury School of Illumination, 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 38, 41, 65–66, 71–74, 121.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), no. 373.
Gullick, Michael, ‘Manuscrits et copistes normands en Angleterre (XIe-XIIe siècles), in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 83-93 (p. 92).
Kauffmann, C. M., Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 21.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
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. 102, 115, 240.
Sharpe, Richard and Willoughby, James, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 30 January 2017].
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 129.
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum: General Introduction and Commentary, ed. by R. Thomson, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), p. 264.
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, 1995), p. 158.
- 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