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Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001102978
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000230
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056029675.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
- Title:
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A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: An early modern table of contents.
f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus', followed by an added prayer written by a contemporary hand, beginning: 'Deus qui salutis eterne Beate Marie'.
f. 2v: A lunar calendar for calculating the moveable feasts.
ff. 3r-8v: A liturgical calendar including obits and added verses for each month in the upper margin.
f. 9r: A part of a lunar calendar for finding the date of Easter and other moveable feasts.
ff. 9v-10r: Prayers: a part of the Agnus Dei and a prayer linked to the feast of St Catherine.
f. 10v: Preface to the Eucharistic prayer, Sursum corda.
ff. 11r-238v: A Sacramentary with a preface to the Sacramentary (ff. 11r-v); an Ordo Missae (the first leaf is missing), beginning: 'clementissime pater per Iesum Christum filium tuum' (ff. 12r-16r); a Proprium de tempore (ff. 16v-74r); a Proprium de sanctis (ff. 74v-148r); a Commune sanctorum (ff. 148v-155r); Misse votive (ff. 155v-198v); exorcisms and selection of pontifical services particularly the episcopal benedictions (ff. 198v-223v); Sermones penitentiales (ff. 223v-227r); exorcisms and benedictions (ff. 227r-238v).
Decoration:
Table in red with a decorated frame (ff. 2v; 9r). Large KL letters in red or blue (ff. 3r-8v). Small initials in red. Decorated and interlocked capital letters in red (ff. 10r-11v). Initials in red, blue and green, some are decorated. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102978 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII : A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0808]/040-001102978
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056029675.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (text space: 170 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 238 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library. Rebound in 1856.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Wells, Southwestern England.
Provenance:
?Giso (d. 1088) bishop of Wells: traditionally associated with this manuscript (see Pfaff, 'Liturgical books' (2012), p. 457).
?The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury (see Corrêa, 'A Mass for St. Patrick in an Anglo-Saxon Sacramentary' (1993), pp. 245-51).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his library pressmark and the Cottonian table of contents (f. 1r).
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/.
- Publications:
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Corrêa, Alicia, ‘A mass for St Patrick in an Anglo-Saxon sacramentary’, in Saint Patrick, A.D. 493-1993, ed. by David N. Dumville (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993), pp. 245–52.
Chardonnens, László Sandór, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts (Boston: Brill, 2007), p. 525.
Corrêa, Alicia, ‘A Mass for St Patrick in an Anglo-Saxon Sacramentary’, in Saint Patrick, A.D. 493-1993, ed. by David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 13 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), pp. 245-252.
Dumville, David, N., Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992), p. 91.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 421.
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001), no. 400.
Keynes, Simon, ‘Giso, bishop of Wells (1061-88)’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 19 (1996), 251–53.
Pfaff, Richard, 'Liturgical books', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 1400-1557 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, p. 457.
Rushforth, Rebecca, An Atlas of Saints in Anglo-Saxon Calendars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), no. 25.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 575.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.