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Cotton MS Nero C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00039e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056660591.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero C VII
- Title:
- William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali.
ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis.
ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect.
ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey.
ff. 85r-215v: Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough.
ff. 216r-223v: A short annalistic chronicle.
ff. 224r-225v: Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102678 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero C VII : William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect);… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9 : William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 10–28 : Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 29–79 : Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 80–84 : Annals of Thorney Abbey and an Easter-table 961–1421
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 85–215 : Rentals of Peterborough Abbey
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 216–223 : Annalistic chronicle
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 224–225 : Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
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- 032-001101582[0639]/040-001102678
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- 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_100056660591.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 12th century-16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire and water in 1731
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: approximately 355 × 280 mm (text space varies).
Foliation: ff. 225 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1955.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: the table of contents written by Richard James (d. 1698), antiquary and Cotton's librarian (f. 1r); the pressmark 'Claudius D V' written by James (Nero C VII and Claudius D V are the same manuscript (f. 1r)); the pressmark 'Nero C VII' written by a different hand (f. [iii] verso); cited in Add MS 36682 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).
?James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), Church of Ireland archibishop of Armagh and scholar: borrowed by him from Cotton c. 1634 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).
?William Laud (b. 1573, d. 1645), archbishop of Canterbury: borrowed by him from Cotton c. 1634 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).
?George Abbot (b. 1562, d. 1633), archbishop of Caterbury: borrowed by him from Cotton before 1633 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).
Godfrey Wildbore (fl. c. 1656): borrowed by him from Cotton in 1656 or 1657 (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).
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.
- Former External References:
- Cotton MS Claudius D V
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Chardonnens, S., Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2007), p. 155.
Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland (London: The British Library, 2010), no. 771, p. 155 [ff. 85-215].
Dodwell, C. R., The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 64, 78, 121.
Gameson, Richard, 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman-Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: The Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 95-144 (p. 107).
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), no. 433 [ff. 29-79], no. 794 [ff. 80-84].
Hanna, Ralph, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John’s College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 27–34 [ff. 80-84].
Hart, Cyril, 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Ramsey', in Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. by Janet Roberts and Janet L. Nelson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 65-88.
Humphreys, K. W., 'Book Distribution Lists from Thorney Abbey Cambridge 1324-1330', Bodleian Library Record, 2 (1948), 205-10.
Kauffmann, C. M., Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 22 [ff. 29-79], no. 9 [ff. 80-84].
Ker, N. R., 'Membra Disiecta', British Museum Quaterly, 12 (1938), 130-35 (pp. 131-32).
Ker, N. R., A Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 360, [ff. 80-84].
Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 36 [ff. 29-79], p. 189 [ff. 80-84].
Robert, J., 'An Inventory of early Guthlac materials', Medieval Studies, 32 (1970), 193-233 (p. 198).
Da Rold, Orietta and others, The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 (Leicester: University of Leicester, 2013), http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.Ox.SJ.17.htm [accessed 16 September 2016].
Scarfe, Norman, Suffolk in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1986), p. 49.
Sharpe, Richard and Willoughby., James, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1244/?search_term=Cotton%20Nero%20C.vii&page_size=500 [ff. 29-79]
http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5479/?search_term=Cotton%20Nero%20C.vii&page_size=500 [ff. 80-84] [accessed 16 September 2016].
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 134-35.
Wallis, Faith, 'MS 17: Decoration: Oxford, St. John's College MS 17 and London, British Library Cotton Nero C. VII Fols 80-84', in The Calendar and the Cloister: Oxford, St. John's College MS 17 (McGill University Library, Digital Collections Program, 2007) [accessed 16 September 2016].
Watson, Andrew G., The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: The British Museum, 1966), p. 23.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1979), I, no. 541 [ff. 216-23], II, pl. 76 [ff. 216-23].
- 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.