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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX
- Record Id:
- 040-001103363
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0002df
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064373754.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX
- Title:
- Nigel Witeker, Versus; An anonymous poem; Ely Chronicle; An Easter-table chronicle; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae, Sermones; A theological note
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-51r: Nigel Witeker (d. after 1206), Versus (Poems).
ff. 52r: An anonymous poem, beginning: 'Vitam claudit hominum paucitas dierum, nec est inter’.
ff. 53r-70v: Ely Chronicle.
ff. 71r-82r: An Easter-table chronicle.
ff. 83r-112v: Hildebert of Lavardin (b. c. 1055, d. 1133), Epistulae (Letters).
ff. 112v-114v: Hildebert of Lavardin, An untitled sermon, beginning: 'David futura spiritu previdens’.
ff. 114v-125v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae.
f. 125v: Hildebert of Lavardin, A poem about Christmas, beginning: ‘Promissa mundo gaudia superna soluit gratia die ista’.
ff. 125v-138r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae.
ff. 138r-161r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Sermones (Sermons), beginning: ‘Cantate Domino canticum novum quia mirabilia fecit’.
ff. 161r-163r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae.
f. 163r: A theological note, beginning: ‘Ieronimus super Ysaiam. Ierusalem historialiter significat ciuitatem materialem’.
[ff. 1r, 51v, 52v, 82v, 163v are blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 1-52, Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 53-70, Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 71-82 and Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 83-163.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103363 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX : Nigel Witeker, Versus; An anonymous poem; Ely Chronicle; An Easter-table chronicle; Hildebert of Lavardin,… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 1–52 : Nigel Witeker, Versus; An anonymous poem
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 53–70 : Ely Chronicle
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 71–82 : An Easter-table Chronicle
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 83–163 : Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistulae, Sermones; A theological note
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- 032-001101582[0983]/040-001103363
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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_100064373754.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 12th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 × 135 mm (text space: 140 x 100-105 mm (ff. 1r-52v); 155-160 x 100 mm (ff. 53r-68v); 175 x 100 mm (f. 69r)).
Foliation: ff. 163 (+ 5 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. [iv], f. [v], f. 1* and f. [164] are parchment flyleaves.
Binding: British Museum/ British Library-in house. Rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: owned all 4 parts of the manuscript separately as his MSS 137, 183, 188 (see Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile (1969), p. 54 (no. 188)).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), pp. 183-84); table of content written by his librarian Richard James (ff. [i*]-[i*]verso); his bookplate (front outside cover).
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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Bailey, D. R. Shackleton, ‘Textual Notes on Some Poems of Nigel de Longchamp’, Medium Ævum, 53 (1984), 282-90 (pp. 284-87).
Boutemy, André, ‘Une Vie Inédite de Paul de Thèbes par Nigellus de Longchamps’, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, 10 (1931), 931-63 (pp. 943-63).
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), pp. 477-78.
Hall, J. B., ‘Notes on the “Miracula Sancte Dei Genitricis Virginis Marie, Versifice” of Nigellus de Longo Campo’, Studi Medievali, 3rd series, 29 (1988), 423-43.
Harrison, Julian, ‘New Discoveries Among the Cotton manuscripts’, Monastic Research Bulletin, 8 (2002), 23-33 (pp. 30-31).
James, Montague Rhodes, ed., The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St Martin’s Priory at Dover (Cambridge, 1903), p. 48 (no. 278).
Ker, Neil R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 36.
Lambert, Bernhard, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 467.
Morin, Germain, ‘Trois Manuscrits d’Engelberg à l’Ambrosiana’, Revue bénédictine, 39 (1927), 297-316 (pp. 304-11).
Mozley, John H., ‘The Unprinted Poems of Nigel Wireker: an Examination of MS. Cotton Vespasian D xix, fols. 1-53’, Speculum, 7 (1932), 398-423 (p. 398).
Rigg, Arthur G., ‘Nigel of Canterbury: What Was His Name?’, Medium Ævum, 56 (1987), 304-07.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London, 2003), pp. 183-84.
Ward, Harry L. D., & John A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London, 1883-1910), II (1893), pp. 691-95.
Watson, Andrew G., The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969), p. 54.
Wilmart, André, ‘Les Sermons d’Hildebert’, Revue bénédictine, 47 (1935), 12-51 (pp. 39-45).
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. and trans., Nigel of Canterbury: The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems (London, 1994), p. 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.