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Cotton MS Nero D VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102729
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165159144.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D VIII
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows:
ff. 3-175: A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum (4th quarter of the 12th century);
ff. 176-344: Historical and scientific texts, including the Polychronicon (4th quarter of the 14th century);
ff. 345-347: A history of the foundation of Colchester Abbey (16th century).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102729 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero D VIII : Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII - Contains:
- Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 3r–175v : A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum
Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v : Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon and other texts
Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 345r–347v : History of the foundation of Colchester Abbey
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Nero D VIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0651]/040-001102729
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex, composite, consisting of 3 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165159144.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century -16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper (ff. 1, 345–347); parchment (ff. 2–344).
Dimensions: 365 × 260 mm.
Foliation: ff. 347 (ff. 1 and 2 are early modern flyleaves + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum 1896.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
The components of this volume were acquired by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (ff. 3r, 176r) and included in the first catalogue of his collection (Harley MS 6018, no. 194), and the Cottonian catalogues, Additional MS 36789 (ff. 8r-v) and Additional MS 36682; see Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 138.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (ff. 3r, 176r), and in his catalogues . 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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Joseph Planta, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 239-39.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)