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Cotton MS Vitellius F X
- Record Id:
- 040-001103119
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000282
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius F X
- Title:
- Chronicle (Vologda-Perm')
- Scope & Content:
- Languages: Russian Church Slavonic with very strong vernacular elements; English (f. 2r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103119 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius F X : Chronicle (Vologda-Perm') - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0890]/040-001103119
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Vitellius_F_X (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Russian - Scripts:
- Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731 with loss of the text around the top of each page.
Each leaf is mounted individually in a window mounts, and the occasional signatures that survive are insufficient to reconstruct the original composition of the MS, particularly as the order if the leaves is seriously disrupted.
Foliation: ff. 377
Materials: paper
Watermark - a pot.
Dimensions: approximately 280 × 245 mm; leaves - 270 mm x 215 mm; originally probably about 250 mm x 180 mm. Written area 210 mm x 130 mm.
Ink: black (in part brown); red for titles and initials
Binding: British Museum 1964; brown cloth on card, leather spine and corners, 285 mm x 240 mm.
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Russia
- Publications:
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Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei. Vol. 26: Vologodsko-Permskaia Letopis'. Moskva-Leningrad, 1959; Moskva: Rukopisnye pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi, 2006.
Ia.S.Lur'e. 'The London and L'vov Manuscripts of the Vologda-Perm' Chronicle: The Problems of Reconstructing Grand-Princely Writing of the Early 1470s' in: Oxford Slavonic Papers, V. 82-89.
Vologodsko-Permskaia Letopis'. Londonskii spisok. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta, 2013.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)