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Cotton MS Titus C XV
- Record Id:
- 040-001103555
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000366
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus C XV
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Titus C XV
- Scope & Content:
- Leaf of the Breviary of Margaret of York, incorporating a mounted papyrus fragment of Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in Evangelia, followed by fragments of the Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103555 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus C XV : Cotton Manuscript Titus C XV - Contains:
- Cotton MS Titus C XV, ff 1r-v : Leaf of the Breviary of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy (d. 1503), by the Vienna Master of Mary of…
Cotton MS Titus C XV, ff 2r–5v : Fragments from the Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (Greg.-Aland N or 022; von Soden ε 19; Scrivener N),…
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- 032-001101582[1086]/040-001103555
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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5 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Titus_C_XV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0550
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 6th century-c 1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: paper (f. i); parchment (ff. 1-5); papyrus (f. 1, insert)
Dimensions: approximately 325 × 280 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 5; i (f. i: early modern endleaf) + 1 (f. 1) + 4 (ff. 2-5)
Binding: boxed
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ghent (Breviary of Margaret of York); possibly Rome (Gregory the Great); Antioch (Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus): Porter and Porter 2008, p. 149.
Previously owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this item, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Titus_C_XV].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, I, Greek, London 1881, p. 22.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1 pp. 139-141.
H. S. Cronin, Codex purpureus Petropolitanus (Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, vol. 5 no. 4), Cambridge 1899.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, pp. 56-59.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1913, vol. 1 p. 120.
E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, Part II: Great Britain and Ireland, Oxford 1935, p. 21, no. 192.
O. Pächt, The Master of Mary of Burgundy, London 1948, pp. 64, 69.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British MuseumI, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 89.
K. Aland, Kurzgeffaste Liste der Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 21.
M. P. Brown, 'Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur?', in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, ed. M. P. Brown and S. McKendrick, London 1998, pp. 287–90, 295.
R. G. Babcock, 'A papyrus codex of Gregory the Great’s Forty Homilies on the Gospels (London, Cotton Titus C. XV)', Scriptorium 54 (2000), pp. 280–89.
S. McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400–1550, London 2003, no. 30.
S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture, London 2007, fig. 10.
S. E. and W. J. Porter, New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments: New Editions (Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer) Neue Serie 29-30), 2 vols, Berlin 2008, vol. 1 no. 37.
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. H. C. Evans and B. Ratliff, New York 2012, p. 40, no. 21A
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)