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Cotton MS Titus A XIX
- Record Id:
- 040-001103510
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000322
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus A XIX
- Title:
- Historical and verse miscellany, including Symeon of Durham, Epistola de pontificibus Eboracensium (3r–4r); De ciuitate Lincolniensi (4r–5r); De origine et statu ecclesie Eboracensis (6r–11r: Walther 7887); tract on the antiquities of Rome (11v–15v); Narraciones de nobili rege Arthuro (16r–19v), incorporating Vera historia de morte Arthuri (16v–17v); Quomodo xii discipuli sanctorum Philippi et Iacobi Glastonie fundauerunt (19v–23r); Ps.-Turpin, De gestis Karoli magni (24r–41r: BHL 1589–96, incomplete); Pilgrim’s guide to Santiago de Compostela (41r–43r: long version, incomplete); notes on Kirkstall Abbey and the Lacy family (47v, 59r–62v); Uita beati Thurstani archiepiscopi Eboracensis (53r–56v), incorporating two poems by Geoffrey Turcople (55v–56v: not in Walther); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Uita Merlini (63r–73v); account of the meeting of Merlin and St Kentigern (74r–75v); Uita sancti Kentigerni (76r–80v: BHL 4645, imperfect); royal and papal letters and documents (82r–100v); verses on Wales (101r–102v: Walther 14739); De origine gigantum (103r–v); John Stafford, verses on the rulers of Britain and England to King Henry III (1216–1272) (105v–114v: Walther 1042); remedy for spasms (115r); Thomas Stubbs (attributed), Chronicle of the archbishops of York, AD 635–1373 (117v–143r); accounts of the Battle of Estrepym, 1119, and the Battle of the Standard, 1138 (144r–149v); poem in honour of William FitzHerbert, archbishop of York (1143–1147, 1153–1154) (150r: not in Walther); lists of the archbishops of York and Canterbury (150r–151r); poem on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, AD 778 (153r–155r: Walther 3112)
- Scope & Content:
- Languages: Latin; Middle English (49v, 115r); Anglo-Norman French (50r–v, 52r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103510 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus A XIX : Historical and verse miscellany, including Symeon of Durham, Epistola de pontificibus Eboracensium (3r–4r); De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1050]/040-001103510
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 15th century-2nd half 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves singed by fire in 1731
Materials: paper
Dimensions: approximately 220 × 160 mm
Foliation: fos. 156; 2 (ff. 1-2: early modern endleaves) + 154 (ff. 3-156)
Binding: British Museum 1905
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Kirkstall Abbey
- Publications:
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Barber, Richard, ‘Was Mordred buried at Glastonbury? Arthurian tradition at Glastonbury in the Middle Ages’, in James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 145–59
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)
Carley, James P., & Julia Crick, ‘Constructing Albion’s past: an annotated edition of De origine gigantum’, in James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 347–418
Krochalis, Jeanne E., ‘History and legend at Kirkstall in the fifteenth century’, in P. R. Robinson & Rikvah Zim (eds), Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers. Essays presented to M. B. Parkes (Aldershot, 1997), pp. 230–56
Lapidge, Michael, ‘The Vera historia de Morte Arthuri: a new edition’, in James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 115–41
MacQueen, Winifred, & John MacQueen, ‘Vita Merlini Silvestris’, Scottish Studies, 29 (1989), 77–93
Paden, William D., & Patricia Harris Stäblein, ‘“De Tradicione Guenonis”: an edition with translation’, Traditio, 44 (1988), 201–51
Stones, Alison, Jeanne Krochalis, Paula Gerson & Annie Shaver-Crandell (eds.), The Pilgrim’s Guide: A Critical Edition, 2 vols (London, 1998), I, pp. 127–52
Walther, Hans, Initia Carminum ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, I (Göttingen, 1969)
Ward, H. L. D., & J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London, 1883–1910), I, pp. 201, 290–92, 578–80, 630–31
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)