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Cotton MS Titus A II
- Record Id:
- 040-001103478
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000311
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus A II
- Title:
- Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie, with continuation (2r–68r); Geoffrey of Coldingham, Liber de statu ecclesie Dunelmensis (68r–85v); Robert Graystanes, Historia de statu ecclesie Dunelmensis (86r–126v); Liber de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti (127r–132r: BHL 2029, excerpts); accounts of the life of Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham (1333–45) (132r–133v); Libellus de ortu sancti Cuthberti (134r–147v: BHL 2026); Richard (?Thomas) Stockton, metrical Uita sancti Cuthberti with an account of Durham history to AD 1346 (148r–152v: BHL 2027, Walther 17647a); index to Libellus de exordio (153r–157v); Breuis relatio de sancto Cuthberto (158r–160v: BHL 2031); Breuiarium chronice Haugustaldensis ecclesie (160v–161v)
- Scope & Content:
- Dated: 1st half of the 14th century (5r–85v, 134r–147v); middle of the 14th century (2r–4v, 85v–132r, 148r–152v); 15th century (132r–133v, 153r–161v)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103478 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus A II : Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie, with continuation… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1033]/040-001103478
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 240 × 165 mm
Foliation: fos. 162; 1 (f. 1: early modern endleaf) + 161 (ff. 2-162)
Binding: British Museum 19th century
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: Christopher Watson (d. 1580/81); John Joscelyn (d. 1603); (?)John Parker (d. 1618/19); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: (?)Durham Cathedral Priory
- Publications:
- Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis [BHL], Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), & Henricus Fros (ed.), Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis: Novum Supplementum, Subsidia Hagiographica, 70 (Brussels, 1986); Ker, N. R., & Andrew G. Watson (eds.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Supplement to the Second Edition (London, 1987), p. 30; Rollason, David, ed. and trans., Symeon of Durham, Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, Ecclesie. Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham (Oxford, 2000), pp. xxxi–xxxiii, lxiii–lxiv; Walther, Hans, Initia Carminum ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, I (Göttingen, 1969)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)