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Cotton MS Vespasian B IV
- Record Id:
- 040-001103224
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0002a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B IV
- Title:
- Johannes Opicii (Opicius), Poems in commemoration of King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) (3r–24r); list of manuscripts in the privy closet at Whitehall (25r)
- Scope & Content:
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Language(s): Latin; English (25r)
Dated: last quarter of the 15th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (25r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103224 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian B IV : Johannes Opicii (Opicius), Poems in commemoration of King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) (3r–24r); list of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0926]/040-001103224
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 270 × 195 mm
Foliation: fos. 25
Binding: British Museum 1856
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: (…) Phillips (fl. 1600); the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England, made for King Henry VII of England (1485–1509)
- Publications:
- Backhouse, Janet, ‘Sir Robert Cotton’s record of a royal bookshelf’, in C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy (London, 1997), pp. 230–37; Carlson, David R., ‘The Italian Johannes Opicius on Henry VII of England’s 1492 invasion of France: historical witness and antique convention’, Renaissance Studies, 20 (2006), 520–46; Carlson, David R., ‘The “Opicius” poems (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.iv) and the humanist anti-literature in early Tudor England’, Renaissance Quarterly, 55 (2002), 869–903; Wahlgren-Smith, Lena, ‘Heraldry in Arcadia: the court eclogue of Johannes Opicius’, Renaissance Studies, 14 (2000), 210–34; 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. 566
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)