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Cotton MS Nero E I
- Record Id:
- 040-001102742
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0003af
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including:
Cotton Nero E I/1:
Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fragments of this lectionary also survive in Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458. Most of this lectionary was copied in 2nd half of the 11th century, apart from Cotton Nero E I/1, ff. 53v–54v, which were copied in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century.
Cotton Nero E I/2:
ff 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary.
ff. 166-80: part of second section of the second volume of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary.
ff. 181r-184v: part of the ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral.
ff 185r-186v: Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt), copied in the late 10th or early 11th century.
ff 189-222: part of another Legendary (imperfect), copied in the late 12th or early 13th century, covering saints whose feast days are in May, July, and August.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102742 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero E I : ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Nero E I/1 : ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
Cotton MS Nero E I/2 : ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan…
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- 032-001101582[0655]/040-001102742
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 parchment codices
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 11th century - 2nd quarter 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: Cotton Nero E I/1: binding: 415 × 315 mm (folio: 400 x 265 mm; text space: 320 x 235 mm); Cotton Nero E I/2: binding: 410 x 310 mm (folio: 390 x 280 mm; text space 330 x 220 mm).
Foliation: Cotton Nero E I/1: ff. 208 (where ff. 1-2 are early modern endleaves, + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); Cotton Nero E I/2: ff. 222 (+ 5 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house, 1852 (Cotton MS Nero E I/1); British Museum/British Library in-house, 1969 (Cotton MS Nero E I/2).
- Custodial History:
- Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: number 219 in his catalogue of 1621 (Harley MS 6018). 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)