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Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
- Record Id:
- 040-001103184
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000299
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062968809.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
- Title:
- Anonymous compilation of canonical texts and decretals based on the Collectio Tripartita
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and episcopal correspondence; the compilation is made from the sources that are part of the canonical collection known as the Collectio Tripartita or Collectio Trium Partium (Tripartite Collection) (see Brooke, The English Church (1989), pp. 243-44).
[ff. [i]recto, 1r are blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 2r); numerous small initials in red and blue, some with penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103184 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian A XV : Anonymous compilation of canonical texts and decretals based on the Collectio Tripartita - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0913]/040-001103184
- 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_100062968809.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Lower margins damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space: 170 x 85 mm).
Foliation: Foliation: ff. 130 + ii (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. i-ii are medieval parchment leaves; 8 unfoliated paper stubs between f. 17 and f. 18; f. 41 and f.42; f. 69 and f. 70; f. 109 and f. 110.
Collation: i4–1 (ff. i–ii, 1; 1st cancelled), ii–vi8 (ff. 2–41), vii12–2 (ff. 42–51; 6th, 8th cancelled), viii12 (ff. 52–63), viii10–4 (ff. 64–69; 1st–4th cancelled), ix–xv8 (ff. 70–125), xvi8–3 (ff. 126–130; 6th–8th cancelled).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; rebound in 1856.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Cirencester, Southwestern England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin of Cirencester, founded in 1117: its ownership inscription: "Hunc librum Domnus Jocelinus Canonicus dedit deo et ecclesie beate marie de Cirecestr. Domne Serlone tunc ibidem Abbate primo" in a late-12th century hand (f. 1v).
Sir John Prise (b. 1501/2, d. 1555), administrator and scholar: entered the title: 'Epistole Clementis et aliorum coevorum apostolorum' (f. 1v); see Neil R. Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, The Library, 10 (1955), 1–24.
Jesus College, Oxford: owned in 1602; appears in the list of the books (no. 38) in the 1602 donation bequeathed to the college by John’s son Gregory Prise (b. 1535, d. 1600).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), pp. 174-75); table of contents written by his librarian Richard James (f. [ii]recto); his arms (front outside cover).
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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Alvarez de las Asturias, Nicolás, 'The Use of the Collectio Lanfranci: The Evidence of the Manuscripts', in Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around 1100. Essays in Honour of Martin Brett, ed. by Bruce C. Brasington and Kathleen G. Cushing (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 121-27 (p. 123).
Brett, Martin, 'The Collectio Lanfranci and its Competitors', in Intellectual life in the Middle Ages. Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson, ed. by Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward (London, Hambledon, 1992), pp. 157-74 (pp. 161 n. 14, 169).
Brooke, Zachary N, The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 94, 243-44.
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 436.
Dunning, Andrew N. J., ‘Alexander Neckam’s Manuscripts and the Augustinian Canons of Oxford and Cirencester’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 2016).
Ker, Neil Ripley, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 52, 248.
Kéry, Lotte, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400–1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature, History of Medieval Canon Law, 1 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 106.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 174–75.
- 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.