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Cotton MS Nero C V
- Record Id:
- 040-001102672
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00039c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064924709.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero C V
- Title:
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Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory X addressed to the bishops of London and Ely
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r).
ff. 162r-285v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (English History).
ff. 282r-283r: a bull of Pope Gregory X (1272-1276) addressed to the bishops of London and Ely, concerning a revolt by the townsfolk against Norwich Cathedral Priory, the Old City, 13 March 1273.
[ff. 4r, 159v, 281v, 283v, 284r, 284v, 285r, 285v are blank].
Decoration: See Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3-161; Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 162-285.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102672 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero C V : Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161 : Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts
Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 162–285 : Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory X addressed to the bishops of London and Ely
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064924709.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century - 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: approximately 340 × 270 mm (text space: 230 x 180 mm (ff. 3-161); 260 x 160 mm (ff. 162-285)).
Foliation: ff. 285 (5 modern unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 3 parchment flyleaves containing fragments of a mid-fourteenth-century Psalter (former ff. 1, 2 and 286) have been removed and rebound in Royal MS 13 D I/1 (respectively ff. 18, 15 and 2) on 12 October 1872 (for the history of these leaves see Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts (1986), no. 131; Carley and Tite, ‘Question of Dismemberment’ (1992), 94-99; and Tite, ‘Lost or stolen or strayed’ (1997), p. 290 and fig. 6).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1974.
- 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. 134); table of content written by his librarian Richard James (f. 2v); his arms (upper outside 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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Brett, Martin, ‘The use of [the] universal chronicle at Worcester’, in L’Historiographie médiévale en Europe: Actes du colloque organisé par la Fondation Européenne de la Science au Centre de Recherches Historiques et Juridiques de l’Université Paris I du 29 mars au 1er avril 1989, ed. by Jean-Philippe Genet (Paris: Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, 1991), pp. 277-85.
Carley, James P., & Colin G. C. Tite, ‘Sir Robert Cotton as collector of manuscripts and the question of dismemberment: British Library MSS Royal 13 D. I and Cotton Otho D. VIII’, The Library, 14 (1992), 94-99.
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum, ed. by Joseph Planta (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 234.
Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 134.
Cordoliani, Alfred, ‘L’activité computistique de Robert, évêque de Hereford’, in Mélanges offerts à René Crozet à l’occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire,ed. by Pierre Gallais and Yves-Jean Riou, 2 vols (Poitiers: Societé d'Etudes Médievales, 1966), I, pp. 333-40.
Crick, Julia C., The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 3: A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), no. 114.
The Chronicle of John of Worcester, II, The Annals from 450 to 1066, ed. by Richard R Darlington, Peter McGurk and Jennifer Bray, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. lxiv-lxvii.
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001), no. 342.6.
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: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 99-117 (pp. 104-05).
Monumenta Germaniae Historica,Scriptores, V (Hanover: Hahn, 1844), p. 483.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, (London: Miller, 1986), no. 131.
Tite, Colin G. C., ‘“Lost or stolen or strayed”: a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton library’, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 262-306 (p. 290 and fig. 6).
Verbist, Peter, ‘Reconstructing the past: the Chronicle of Marianus Scottus’, Peritia, 16 (2002), 284-334 (pp. 285-86).
Verbist, Peter, Duelling with the Past: Medieval Authors and the Problem of the Christian Era, c. 990-1135, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 21 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 86 n. 5,
V. Den Brincken, Anna-Dorothee, ‘Marianus Scottus. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der nicht veröffentlichen Teile seiner Chronik’, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 17 (1961), 191-238.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in TheDepartment of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 540.
- 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.