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Cotton MS Vespasian A XXII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103205
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00029f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian A XXII
- Title:
- Chronicle, AM 1–AD 738 (2v–8v); Rochester Chronicle, AD 1–1380 (9r–34r); Ralph de Diceto, Series cause inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum (35r–51v); homilies (52r–56v, 57v); memoranda of rents due to Rochester Cathedral Priory (56v–57r, 57v–59r); register of Rochester Cathedral Priory (60r–129v)
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): Latin; Middle English (52r–56v, 57v)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103205 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian A XXII : Chronicle, AM 1–AD 738 (2v–8v); Rochester Chronicle, AD 1–1380 (9r–34r); Ralph de Diceto, Series cause… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0919]/040-001103205
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 235 × 165 mm
Foliation: fos. 129
Binding: British Museum 1962
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: (?)John Dee (d. 1609); (?)John Joscelyn (d. 1603); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Rochester Cathedral Priory
- Information About Copies:
- Wilcox, Jonathan, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 8, Wulfstan Texts and Other Homiletic Materials (Tempe, AZ, 2000)
- Publications:
- Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 821; Flight, Colin, The Bishops and Monks of Rochester, 1076-1214, Kent Archaeological Society, Monograph Series, VI (Maidstone, 1997), pp. 71–85; Harrison, Julian, ‘Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Chronicle in the British Isles’, in Rainer Berndt (ed.), Schrift, Schreiber, Schenker: Studien zur Abtei Sankt Viktor in Paris und den Viktorinern, Corpus Victorinum, Instrumenta, 1 (Berlin, 2005), p. 278; Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 161; Laistner, M. L. W., & H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, NY, 1943), p. 152; Richards, Mary P., ‘MS Cotton Vespasian A. XXII: the Vespasian Homilies’, Manuscripta, 22 (1978), 97–103; Richards, Mary P., Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 78, part 3 (Philadelphia, PA, 1988), pp. 5, 13, 15, 17, 45, 54, 57, 69 (n. 30), 94; 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. 565; Wilcox, Jonathan, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 8, Wulfstan Texts and Other Homiletic Materials (Tempe, AZ, 2000), pp. 46–52
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)