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Cotton MS Nero E VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102753
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00008c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E VI
- Title:
- Cartulary of the Knights Hospitallers (Order of St John of Jerusalem) in England, including lists of masters of Knights Templars and Knights Hospitallers (466r–467v)
- Scope & Content:
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Language(s): Latin, Anglo-Norman French, English
Dated: 1442 to the 1st half of the 16th century
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102753 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero E VI : Cartulary of the Knights Hospitallers (Order of St John of Jerusalem) in England, including lists of masters of Knights… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0660]/040-001102753
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1442
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1442-1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: paper (f. i); parchment (ff. 1–467)
Dimensions: approximately 415 × 300 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 467; i (f. i: modern endleaf) + 467 (ff. 1–467)
Binding: British Museum 1958, bound in two volumes (part I, ff. i, 1–221; part II, ff. 222–467)
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: John Wiseman of Great Canfield, 1568; Sir Thomas Penruddock, 1628; Sir Thomas Cotton (d. 1662)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: St John’s Priory, Clerkenwell
- Publications:
- Cotton, Charles, A Kentish Cartulary of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Kent Records, 11 (Ashford, 1930); Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 852; Gervers, Michael, ed., The Cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, i, Secunda Camera. Essex (Oxford, 1982); Gervers, Michael, ed., The Cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, ii, Prima Camera. Essex (Oxford, 1996); Gervers, Michael, ‘A History of the Cartulary of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (British Museum, Cotton MS, Nero E vi’, Scriptorium, 28 (1974), 262–73; Gervers, Michael, The Hospitaller Cartulary in the British Library (Toronto, 1981); Gervers, Michael, ‘The medieval cartulary tradition and the survival of archival material as reflected in the English Hospitaller cartulary of 1442’, Mediaeval Studies, 37 (1975), 504–14
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)