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Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Record Id:
- 040-001102845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0001e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108144.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Title:
- Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102845 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Otho A XII/1 : Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0737]/040-001102845
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108144.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: binding 240 × 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 36 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end); f. i is a modern paper flyleaf.
Script: 16th-century italic.
Binding: British Library in-house. Brown half leather binding with the Cottonian arms gold-stamped on the upper lower covers. Rebound 1986.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Lumley (b. 1533, d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley: possibly number 949 or 968 in his library (see Jayne & Johnson, The Lumley Library (1956), pp. 121, 124 (nos. 949, 968); Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 149).
The Royal Library, 1624/5: possibly the transcript mentioned by Henry Bourchier (b. 1587, d. 1654), 5th Earl of Bath, in a letter to James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), Archbishop of Armagh, dated 17 January 1624/5 (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 149); possibly no. 577 in the Royal Library (CMA, no. 8299; see Prescott, 'Ghost' (1998), p. 266; Keynes, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (1992), no. 35).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: not listed 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.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Otho A XII*
- Publications:
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Echard, S., 'Containing the book: the institutional afterlives of medieval manuscripts', in The Medieval Manuscript Book, ed. by M. Johnston and M. Van Dussen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 96-118.
Jayne, S.R. and F. R. Johnson, The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609 (London: British Museum, 1956), nos. 949, 968.
Johnson, David F., ‘The transmission and reception of Alfredian “Apocrypha”’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 98-107 (p. 98).
Keynes, S. and M. Lapidge, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of Alfred and other contemporary sources (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983).
Keynes, S, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia, 18 (Binghampton: CEMERS, 1992), no. 35.
Prescott, A., 'The Ghost of Asser', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed. by P. Pulsiano and E. Treharne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 255-91(p. 266).
Stevenson, W.H. (ed.), Asser's Life of King Alfred, Together with the Annals of Saint Neots (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904), pp. liii, xxiv, xxxiii-xl.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 149.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)