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Cotton MS Galba A XVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102765
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Galba A XVIII
- Title:
- Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts. A Cottonian composite frontispiece, from the Breviary of Margaret of York.
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631):
f. 2r: Cottonian composite frontispiece, formed of cuttings from two devotional manuscripts, pasted to the back of the first folio of the following item.
f. 2v-200v: Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan' or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical texts and tables and liturgical texts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102765 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII : Gallican Psalter (‘Athelstan’ or ‘Galba Psalter’), with additions including a metrical calendar, computistical… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, ff 2v-200v : Gallican Psalter with additions
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII, f 2r : Frontispiece
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Galba A XVIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0672]/040-001102765
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Galba_A_XVIII (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment. The outer edges of leaves damaged by fire, 1731.
Dimensions: 130 × 90 mm (text space 105 × 55/65 mm, written in 1 column of 19 lines per page).
Foliation: ff. 200 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation: i12 (ff. 1–12), ii8–1 (ff. 13–19; 8th cancelled), iii8 (ff. 20–27), iv6 (ff. 28–33), v10 (ff. 34–43), vi6 (ff. 44–49), vii10 (ff. 50–59), viii6 (ff. 60–65), ix–xv8 (ff. 66–121), xvi10 (ff. 122–131), xvii6 (ff. 132–137), xviii10 (ff. 138–147), xix–xx8 (ff. 148–163), xxi8+1 (ff. 164–172; 9th added?), xxi6–1 (ff. 173–177; 6th cancelled); xxii8–1 (ff. 178–184; 1st cancelled), xxiii–xxiv8 (ff. 185–200).
Binding: British Museum 1847.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st Baronet, antiquary and politician: his name 'Robertus Cotton Bruceus' inscribed with the date '1612' on f. 1 and on f. 3r, included in the first catalogue of his collection (Harley MS 6018, nos. 87, 362), and the Cottonian catalogue, Additional 36789 (f. 7r); see Tite, Sir Robert Cotton’s Library (2003), pp. 212-13.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and 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’, (Acts of Parliament: 12 and 13 William III, c. 7 of 1701). 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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Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), pp. 12–13.
Brown, Michelle P., ‘Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur?’, in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse (London, 1998), Michelle P. Brown & Scot McKendrick (eds.), pp. 288–90, 294.
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 71 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)