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Cotton MS Titus D IV
- Record Id:
- 040-001103566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00036f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164916931.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D IV
- Title:
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Thomas More's coronation suite; a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis
- Scope & Content:
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A composite volume in three parts, put together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631), containing:
(1) the presentation copy of Thomas More's coronation ode;
(2) a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor;
(3) Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis.
Contents:
Cottonian endleaves:
ff. i–ii: Parchment endleaves.
f. 1r: Contents page by Richard James (d. 1638), Cotton's librarian, in Latin.
Part 1 (ff. 2–14):
ff. 2r–14v: Thomas More's coronation ode for King Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Katherine of Aragon (d. 1536).
England, 1509.
Latin; Greek (f. 14v).
Edited and translated in Miller et al., The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II (1984), pp. 100–13.
Part 2 (ff. 15–74):
ff. 15r–74v: Chronicle of British and English history from Brutus to Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042–1066).
England, 1st half of the 16th century.
Latin.
Part 3 (ff. 75–138):
ff. 75r–138v: Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis (imperfect).
France, middle of the 13th century.
Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103566 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus D IV : Thomas More's coronation suite; a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis - Contains:
- Cotton MS Titus D IV, ff 2-14 : Thomas More, Poems on the coronation of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) and Queen Katherine of Aragon…
Cotton MS Titus D IV, ff 15-74 : Chronicle of British and English history from Brutus to Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042–1066)
Cotton MS Titus D IV, ff 75-138 : Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis (imperfect)
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- 032-001101582[1095]/040-001103566
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164916931.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century-1st half 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment (ff. i–ii, 1–14, 75–138); paper (ff. 15–74).
Dimensions: approximately 170 × 125 mm.
Foliation: fos. ii + 138; ii + 1 (ff. i–ii, 1: early modern endleaves) + 13 (ff. 2–14) + 60 (ff. 15–74) + 64 (ff. 75–138).
Binding: British Museum 1963.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (Parts 1 and 2); France (Part 3).
Provenance:
17th century: Sir Robert Cotton, Bt, Conington (1571-1631).
By descent to his son, Sir Thomas Cotton, Bt (1594-1662), and his grandson, Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702).
1702: Sir John Cotton, Bt, bequeathed the collection of books and manuscripts to trustees 'for Publick Use and Advantage', 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
1753: The Cotton collection formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum.
- Publications:
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Joseph Planta (ed.), A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 563–64.
C. G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London, 2003), p. 198.
Part 1:
Susan Doran (ed.), Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: The British Library, 2009), no. 49.
C. H. Miller, L. Bradner, C. A. Lynch and R. P. Oliver (eds), The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), pp. 100–13.
Part 3:
Branko Franolic, Works of Croatian Latinists Recorded in the British Library general Catalogue (London: Croatian Information Centre), 1999, p. 37.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- ff. 12v–13r: Exhibited: Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance (online), 30 April 2016.