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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
- Record Id:
- 040-001103342
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0002da
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103375.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
- Title:
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A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript includes a collection of homilies in Old English; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103342 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV : A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169 : Collection of Homilies mainly by Ælfric.
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 170–224 : Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides…
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- 032-001101582[0978]/040-001103342
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex, 224 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101103375.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Mid 9th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment
Dimensions: 210 × 140 mm (190 x 130mm).
Foliation: ff. 225 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 parchment and one paper at the end). The manuscript has been foliated three times.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
?Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury: includes a prayer concerning Thomas Becket, for his return from exile (f. 4r), see: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, [http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Vesp.D.xiv.htm] (accessed 13 April 2016).
Perhaps a female ownership in the 12th century: two prayers in a same hand (f. 4r), (see Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts, no 209).
Robert Talbot (b. 1505/6, d. 1558), antiquary: annotations in his hand on ff.. 6v; 76v; 136r.
Laurence Nowell (b. 1530, d. c. 1570), antiquary: his interlinear glosses in English (f. 16) and marginalia throughout. The underlined words are perhaps by him. The manuscript is the book of sermons owned by Laurence Nowell referred to by John Joscelyn in Cotton Vitellius D VII. His wordlist in Lambeth Palace MS 692 (f. 29r) derived from it. (see Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts, no 209).
John Joscelyn (b. c. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and clergyman: his annotation hand (f. 6v): he copied a missing text of the manuscript (originally situated after f. 6) in Cotton Vitellius D VII ff. 10-12.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician.
The Cotton library was created by Sir Robert Cotton (1571–1631), and augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (1594–1662), and grandson, Sir John Cotton (1621–1702). Sir John Cotton bequeathed his collection of manuscripts to the nation ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, as confirmed by Act of Parliament (12 and 13 William III, c. 7). In October 1731, many items in the Cotton collection were damaged by fire while housed at Ashburnham House, London, a handful of volumes being destroyed in their entirety.
The Cotton library formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753, being incorporated into the British Library in 1973.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Handley Rima, ‘British Museum MS. Cotton Vespasian D. xiv’, Notes and Queries, 219, n.s. 21 (1974), 243–50.
Ker Neil. R, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 209.
Liuzza Roy Michael, ‘Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001), 181-230 (221).
'London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. xiv' in The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, ed. by Oriette Da Rold and others (University of Leicester, 2010), available at https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Vesp.D.xiv.htm#han157 [accessed 13 April 2016].
Richards Mary P, ‘On the date and provenance of MS Cotton Vespasian D XIV ff.4–169’, Manuscripta, 17 (1973) 31–35.
Richards Mary P, 'MS Cotton Vespasian A. XII: the Vespasian Homilies', Manuscripta, 22 (1978), 97-103
Treharne Elaine M,‘The form and function of the twelfth-century Old English Dicts of Cato’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 102 (2003), 465–85.
Warner Rubie D. N, Early English Homilies from the Twelfth Century MS. Vesp. D. xiv, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)