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Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX

Record Id:

040-001103194

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00029d

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060437679.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX

Title:

Leaves from a Book of Hours, the Libellus Æthelwoldi, documents relating to Ely, excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, fragments of Ely annals, Goliardic Poems, Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including:

ff. 1, 28, 103: leaves from a Book of Hours, made in France c. 1415-1420;

ff. 2-27: the Libellus Æthelwoldi (copied at Ely in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century);

ff. 29-51: excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, copied in the 1st quarter of the 14th century;

ff. 52-54: fragments of Ely annals, copied in the mid-14th century;

ff. 55-60: Goliardic Poems, copied in the 2nd half of the 13th century;

ff. 61-102: documents relating to Ely, copied in the 1st half of the 15th century;

ff. 104-121: Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica, copied in the 1st quarter of the 15th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103194

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX : Leaves from a Book of Hours, the Libellus Æthelwoldi, documents relating to Ely, excerpts from the Liber…

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0917]/040-001103194

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex, composite, containing 9 items

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060437679.0x000001

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1125

End Date:

1450

Date Range:

c.1125-1450

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 × 135 mm.

Foliation: ff. iii + 124 + i, foliated i[–iii], 1–121. Three early modern flyleaves at the beginning and one at the end, unnumbered, as are a leaf after 60 and the final two leaves of quire xx.

Collation: a⁴⁺¹ (ff. i–iii; 1st pastedown); i¹ (f. 1); ii^2–1 (f. 2; 1st cancelled, with f. 1 glued to the stub), iii⁴ (ff. 3–6), iv^4–1 (ff. 7–9; 4th cancelled), v⁸ (ff. 10–17), vi¹⁰ (ff. 18–27); vii¹ (f. 28); viii^12–12+11 (ff. 29–39; folded parchment fragments, with f. 28 glued to the stub of 1st, and a charter cut apart, folded, and glued to the stubs of 2–12), ix¹² (ff. 40–51); x^2–2+3 (ff. 52–54; a charter cut apart, folded, and glued to a parchment strip); xi^14–7 (ff. 55–60b; a series of singletons pasted together into a quire: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th cancelled); xii¹⁰ (ff. 61–70), xiii–xvi⁸ (ff. 71–102); xvii¹ (f. 103, a singleton attached to quire xvi); xviii⁴ (ff. 104–107), xix–xx⁸ (ff. 108–121c); b^4–2 (f. 121d; 1st and 2nd cancelled, 4th pastedown).

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Arms on the cover, table of contents on f. i recto. 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:

Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 175.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)