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Cotton MS Nero D II

Record Id:

040-001102709

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003a5

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100165158824.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Nero D II

Title:

Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle of Battle Abbey, miscellaneous historical and heraldic texts, Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones, Jean Froissart, Chroniques.

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including:

f. 1v: Cottonian list of contents;

ff. 2r–214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory to 1377;

ff 215r–216v: Annalistic chronicle to1089 (imperfect);

ff. 217r–v: List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, imperfect

ff. 218r–237r: John of Oxnead, Chronicle to 1293;

ff. 238r–241r: Chronicle of Battle Abbey to 1206;

ff 242r–251v: Miscellaneous historical texts, including De mirabilibus Anglie (245v–246v);

ff. 252r–265v: Heraldic miscellany, including La livre de la ffoundacion et ordonnance de l’ordre et compaignie de la Iartier (252r–254r) and Le livre de la creacion et foundacion des heraulx (254v–256v);

ff. 266r-276r: Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones;

ff. 277r–296v: Continuation of Walter of Guisborough's Chronicle, 1327–1346;

ff 297r–305r: Index to the Rochester Chronicle on ff. 2-214;

ff. 306r–313v: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, imperfect;

f. 314r: Drawing of an unidentified church.

(ff. 2r–214, ff. 242-251 and ff. 297-305 are from the same manuscript).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102709

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Nero D II : Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle…

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0646]/040-001102709

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex, composite, containing 11 items

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1650

Date Range:

c.1100-c.1650

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment (ff. i, 1–276, 297–313); paper (ff. 277–296, 314)

Dimensions: 360 × 280 mm

Foliation: ff. i + 314; (ff. i and 1 are early modern endleaves + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); 213 (ff. 2–214)) + 2 (ff. 215–216) + 21 (ff. 217–237) + 4 (ff. 238–241) + 10 (ff. 242–251) + 14 (ff. 252–265) + 11 (ff. 266–276) + 20 (ff. 277–296) + 9 (ff. 297–305) + 8 (ff. 306–313) + 1 (f. 314).

Script: Gothic (ff. 2r-251v); Gothic cursive (ff. 252r-276v, 306r-313v); 16th-century cursive (ff. 277r-296v).

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1906.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his name inscribed on ff. 239r and 242r with the date, 1612, and a table of contents on f. 1v. 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:

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Publications:

Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 136-37.

Exhibitions:

Battles and Dynasties, The Collection, Lincoln, 27 May 2017 - 3 September 2017

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)