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Cotton MS Vespasian D XII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103328
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0002d8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108000.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XII
- Title:
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Glossed Hymnal
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
[f. 1r: Removed 16 December 1912 and bound with other leaves as Royal MS 13 D. i*. Table of contents by William Dugdale on 1v.]
f. 2r: Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?)
f. 3r: Table of contents by Richard James.
f. 4r: Introductory note, from Isidore, De ecclesiasticis officiis 1.6 and Eymologiae 6.21.17.
ff. 4r–120v: Hymnal with prose paraphrases and continuous gloss in Old English, some with neums. ‘Incipiunt ymni quod notibus atque diebus decantant monachi laudibus assiduis. His animus monachi celestia querere discit. Æternumque melos cogitat His scemodis.’
ff. 120v–124v: Additions to the hymnal in hands of the 11th and 12th centuries, most with neums, with a 13th-century addition on f. 124v.
[The following items correspond to quires xvi–xix.]
ff. 125r–155v: Twenty-four monastic canticles with prose paraphrases and continuous gloss in Old English. ‘Incipiunt cantica isaiae prophetę dominicis diebus.’
ff. 155v–156v: Supplementary hymns from the 12th century.
f. 157: Added leaf, a fragment of a Missal including part of an otherwise unknown office of St Nectan, presumably from the Augustinian abbey of St Nectan, Hartland.
Detailed listing of contents in Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 146.
Decoration:
New hymns open with a three-line initial, alternating between green, blue, and red, sometimes with penwork decoration in the same or an alternative colour. Glosses are in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103328 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII : Glossed Hymnal - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, [f 1] : Psalter leaf
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 2 : Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?)
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 157 : Fragment of a missal
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- 032-001101582[0976]/040-001103328
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108000.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1070
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 190 × 115 mm (written area 150 × 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 153 + iii, foliated 2–158 (2–3, 157–[159] are fragments or early-modern parchment used as endleaves).
Collation: a6–4 (ff. 2–3; 1st, 4th–6th cancelled); i–iii8 (ff. 4–27), iv8+2 (ff. 28–37; 4th, 8th added), v–xiv8 (ff. 38–117), xv8–1 (ff. 118–124; 8th cancelled), xvi–xix8 (ff. 125–156); b4–3 (ff. 157–[159]; 4th cancelled).
Script: English Caroline minuscule; Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule; headings in rustic capitals.
Binding: BM/BL in-house, 1961.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury: one of the hand resembles the main hand of Cotton Julius A VI, and the manuscripts may have been written in the same scriptorium (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 205).
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b.1571, d.1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician|: his arms on the binding, and tables of contents associated with his library (ff. [1v], 3r). 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:
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Hartzell, Karl D., ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 146.
Ker, Neil R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 208.
Orme, Nicholas, The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 199.
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 391.
Hartzell, Karl D., ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 146.
Ker, Neil R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 208.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)