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Cotton MS Otho B VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102860
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0001f2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho B VI
- Title:
- Genesis (‘Cotton Genesis’, imperfect)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102860 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Otho B VI : Genesis (‘Cotton Genesis’, imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0746]/040-001102860
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 5th century-6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 285 × 230 mm
Foliation: fos. 147 + 4 fragments
Binding: British Museum 1848
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547); Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603); Sir John Fortescue (d. 1607); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631); Thomas Howard, 14th earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey and 1st earl of Norfolk (d. 1646); William Howard, Viscount Stafford (d. 1680); Mary, widow of William Howard, Viscount Stafford (d. 1694); Sir John Cotton (d. 1702); Andrew Gifford (d. 1784) (fragments 1–4); Bristol Baptist College (fragments 1–4)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: (?)Egypt
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, I, Greek (London, 1881), pp. 20–21
McKendrick, Scot, & Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London, 2007), fig. 9
Prescott, Andrew, ‘“Their present miserable state of cremation”: the restoration of the Cotton library’, in C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy (London, 1997), pp. 399–400
Richard, Marcel, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum (London, 1952), pp. 88–89
Weitzmann, Kurt, & Herbert L. Kessler, The Cotton Genesis: British Library Codex Cotton Otho B.VI (Princeton, NJ, 1986)
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- ff. 26–27 and fragments 3–4 are boxed together; f. 28 is boxed separately; fragments 1–4 were bequeathed to Bristol Baptist College by Andrew Gifford, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum (d. 1784), and were reacquired by the British Museum in 1962; fragments 1–2 are boxed separately, as is the original case in which they were kept at Bristol