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Cotton MS Vespasian B VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103226
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0002a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060437997.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B VI
- Title:
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Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of a computistical table. Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; Notes by John Joscelyn; William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
- Scope & Content:
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This codex contains:
ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in France (possibly in Saint Denis) in the 9th century.In the early 11th century the manuscript was in England, where interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added (ff. 33r, 39v). This manuscript also features a table corresponding to the content of chapter XXII on the mathematical calculations needed for determining the phases of the moon is a lunar table with interlinear musical notation added in the 11th century (f. 26r; see Santosuosso, ‘Music in Bede’s De temporum ratione' pp. 255–59).
f. 102v: lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors copied in the 9th century.
f. 103r: lunar calendar copied in the 9th century.
f. 103v: De horologio, a fragment of a computistical table copied in the 9th century.
ff. 104-109, which contain Anglo-Saxon regnal lists and genealogies and the Metrical Calendar of York, were removed from the volume, mounted in perspex, and are now contained separately in Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1.
f. 110r-v: notes by John Joscelyn on early English manuscripts and texts, made in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
f. 111r-182v: William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, copied in the early 13th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103226 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI : Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 1–103 : Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar;…
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, f 110 : Notes by John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182 : William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
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- 032-001101582[0928]/040-001103226
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- 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_100060437997.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 9th century -16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment and paper (f. 110r-v).
Dimensions: 260 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 182 ( + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 2 at the end; 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning).
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: his annotations and notes (ff. 78r; 110r-v).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet, who bequeathed the entire 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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Alma C. Santosuosso, ‘Music in Bede’s De temporum ratione: an 11th-century addition to MS London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. VI’, Scriptorium, 43 (1989), 255–59.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 177.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)