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Cotton MS Titus A XX
- Record Id:
- 040-001103511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000323
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus A XX
- Title:
- Verse miscellany, including Nigel Witeker, Speculum stultorum (4r–50v: Walther 18944); verses on the expedition of Edward of Woodstock (the Black Prince, d. 1376) to Spain, 1367 (50v–51v: Walther 7224); Michael of Cornwall, Inuectiua contra magistrum Henricum Abrincensem (52r–65v: Walther 1432); Disputatio inter aquam et uinum (66r–v: Walther 3834); Walter Map, De pœna coniugii (66v–67v: Walther 18302); De guerra Scotie (67v–69v: Walther 10450); Dialogus inter Divitem et Lazarum (70r–v: Walther 13878); Proba, Cento Virgilianus (72r–80v: Walther 9696); poem on the Battle of Crécy, 1346 (81r–85v: Walther 6833); poem on the Battle of Neville’s Cross, 1346 (82v–88v: Walther 5041); Disputatio inter Anglum et Francum (101r–v: not in Walther); Simon Chèvre d’Or, Uersus de bello Troiano (102r–107r: Walther 4645); Gualo Brito, Inuectiua contra monachos (108r–111r: Walther 17011); Historia Mahumeti (114v–128v: Walther 7789); Exhortatio ad Anglos (129v–131r: Walther 2388); Comedia Babionis (132r–137v: Walther 10821); Comedia Gete (138r–144r: Walther 7272); Liber de Pamphilio uersibus (144v–154r: Walther 20868); De sancta Susanna (158v–160v: Walther 7450); Walter Map, De uirtute clauium (De malis monachorum) (163v–164r: Walther 11891); Disputatio inter corpus et animam (165r–166v: Walther 11891); satire on the people of Norfolk (167v–168r: Walther 6074, excerpts); John of Saint-Omer, Impugnatio descriptionis Northfolcie (168v–170v: Walther 5238); Walter Map, De Maria uirgine (171v–175r: Walther 14232); Daniel of Beccles, Urbanus magnus (176–179v: Walther 11223, excerpts)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103511 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus A XX : Verse miscellany, including Nigel Witeker, Speculum stultorum (4r–50v: Walther 18944); verses on the expedition of Edward… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1051]/040-001103511
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- middle of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 245 × 190 mm
Foliation: fos. 180
Binding: British Museum 1863
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: John Bale (d. 1563); Robert Bowyer (d. 1621); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England
- Publications:
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Binkley, Peter, ‘Unedited poems from Cotton Titus A. XX with a note on Chaucer's sparrowhawk’, Scintilla, 2–3 (1986), 66–100
Green, Richard Firth, ‘Further evidence for Chaucer’s representation of the Pardoner as a womanizer’, Medium Ævum, 71 (2002), 307–09
Rigg, A. G., ‘Propaganda of the Hundred Years War: poems on the battles of Crecy and Durham (1346): a critical edition’, Traditio, 54 (1999), 169–211
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. 29–30
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)