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Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Record Id:

040-001103012

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00024c

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100059907888.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Title:

Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121 (Chronica de Anglia); Lines on Egyptian days, a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus, notes on Septuagesima, Lent, Easter, epacts and concurrents; the letters of Adam Marsh; Paul, Epistulae, with glosses derived from Pelagius; Domesday abbreviation for Kent; Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus, Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis; a theological treatise on vices and virtues; Jocelin of Furness, Vita sancti Kentigerni

Scope & Content:

Royal MS 6 C VIII originally formed part of the same manuscript from Rievaulx as the folios now in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 4r-21v. The remainder of the 8th-century, Northumbrian manuscript in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 85r-90v is now Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 10. 5. Other leaves from the fragment of a theological treatise which is now Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 157-64 are Cotton MS Claudius C. VI, ff. 1, 205; Cotton MS Vespasian B. XI, ff. 145–148; Cotton MS Cleopatra E. I, ff. 184, 188, 312; and Cotton MS Cleopatra E. IV, ff. 1, 475.

Contents:

f. 1r: A flyleaf with early modern shelfmark.

f. 2r: An early modern table of contents.

f. 3r: An early modern book plate.

ff. 4r-21v: Texts copied at Rievaulx Abbey in the late 12th century, including Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; an incomplete copy of Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano; a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121.

ff. 22r-25v: Old English texts on calculating time and days copied in the first half of the 11th century, possibly at Winchester, with a Latin text written in green in a circle on f. 25v.

ff. 26r-85v: The fullest surviving collection of Adam Marsh's letters, copied the last third of the 13th century.

ff. 85r-90v: St Paul, Epistulae, with a gloss derived from Pelagius's commentary, copied in Northumbria in the 1st half of the 8th century, with more glosses added later.

ff. 91r-130v: Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus.

ff. 131r-142v: Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis.

ff. 143r-156v: Domesday abbreviation for Kent, copied in the 2nd half or the 12th century.

ff. 157-164: A theological treatise on vices and virtues, copied in the 1st half of the 15th century.

ff. 165-212: Jocelin of Furness, Vita Sancti Kentigerni, copied in the 4th quarter of the 12th century.

Decoration:

See Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 4–21; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 85–90; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 91–142; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 143–156; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 157–164; Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103012

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII : Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of…

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0836]/040-001103012

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0700

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

8th century-16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.

Materials: parchment folios, now mounted in paper frames (ff. 1-2, 4-212); paper (f. 3).

Dimensions: Parchment folios mounted within the paper frames approximately 265 x 190 mm (text space varies).

Foliation: ff. 212 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1-2 are early modern endleaves and f. 3 is a Cottonian title-page

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1962.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. 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:

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Publications:

Bell, David N. (ed.), The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines, and Premonstratensians, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 3 (London: British Library, 1992), Z.19.119 (p. 107).

Blake, Martin (ed. and trans.), Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009), pp. 19, 27, 33.

Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), p. 55.

Chardonnens, László Sándor, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 29, 36, 41, 67, 76, 91, 129, 141, 336, 342, 506, 511.

Clarke, Howard B., 'Condensing and Abbreviating the Data: Evesham C, Evesham M, and the Breviate', in Domesday Now: New Approaches to the Inquest and the Book, ed. by David Roffe and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2016), p. 258.

Edwards, Edward, Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy, 2 vols (London: Trubner and Co, 1859), I, p. 337.

Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 173, 404.

Hayward, P.A., 'The Cronica de Anglia in London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 6v-21v: Another Product of John of Worcester's History Workshop', Traditio, 70 (2015), 159-236.

Ker, N.R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 83, 221 (pp. 128-29, 292).

Ker, N.R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 20, 159.

Ker, N. R. and Andrew G. Watson (eds.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Supplement to the Second Edition (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 30.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Iter Italicum, 6 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1989), IV, p. 139.

Lawrence, Anne, ‘English Cistercian Manuscripts of the Twelfth Century’, in Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. by Christopher Norton and David Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 284-98 (pp. 291-93, pl. 182).

Lawrence, Anne, ‘The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts’, in Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994), pp.451-69 (pp. 459-60, pl. 89).

Lawrence-Mathers, Anne, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), p. 210 n. 69; p. 214, pl. 29).

Lawrence C.H. (ed.), The Letters of Adam Marsh, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), I, xlvii-xlix.

Lawrence, C.H. ‘Marsh, Adam (c.1200–1259)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: 2004) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/95, accessed 2 March 2017.

McNamara, Martin, 'The Irish Tradition of Biblical Exegesis, A.D. 550-800', in Iohannes Scottus Eriugena: The Bible and Hermeneutics, ed. by Gerd Van Riel, Carlos Steel and James McEvoy (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996), pp. 40-41.

McNamara, Martin, The Psalms in the Early Irish Church (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), p. 167.

Mortensen, L. B., 'The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List Of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts,' Filologia Mediolatina,VI-VII, (2000), 101-200 (p. 132).

Olsen, Birger Munk, 'The Cistercian and Classical Culture', in La réception de la littérature classique au Moyen Age (IXe-XIIe siècle) (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalum Press, 1995), pp. 95-131 (pp. 107, 126).

Polak, Emil J., Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America (Leiden: Brill, 1994), p. 326.

Vincent, Nicholas, 'The Use and Abuse of Anglo-Saxon Charters by the Kings of England, 1100-1300', in The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past, ed. by Martin Brett and David A. Woodman (London: Routledge, 2015), p. 199.

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.