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Cotton MS Titus D XVI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00039a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059905933.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D XVI
- Title:
- Prudentius, Psychomachia; poem in praise of St Laurence; Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano; Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam; 'Master Rufus', Vita Sancte Afre metrice
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of four originally separate parts perhaps bound together between c. 1250 and c. 1300 (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey (1982), no.19).
Contents:
ff. 2r-34r: Prudentius, Psychomachia.
ff. 34v-35r: A poem in praise of St Laurence.
ff. 37r-69v: Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano.
ff. 70r-111r: Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam.
ff. 113r-128r: Vita Afrae Metrice, usually attributed to 'Master Rufus'.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103579 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Titus D XVI : Prudentius, Psychomachia; poem in praise of St Laurence; Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano; Altercatio… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 2-34 : Prudentius, Psychomachia (illustrated); Poem in praise of St Laurence
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 37r-69v : Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 70r-111r : Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 113r-128r : Vita Afrae Metrice
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- 032-001101582[1106]/040-001103579
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059905933.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 12th century-13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm (text block varies).
Foliation: ff. i + 128 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning), f. [i] is a parchment flyleaf and f. 112 is a former pastedown.
Binding: British Museum/British Library 1863.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Alban, St Albans: several owner inscriptions of different dates: 15th century 'Liber sancti Albani quem qui abstulerit aut titulum deleverit anathema sit amen' (f. [i] verso, erased); 13th century 'Hic est liber sancti Albani quem qui abstulerit vel tytulum deleverit anathema sit' (f. 2r); other inscriptions in the same form in late 13th-century hands (ff. 37r; 70r).
A table of content: refers to the four parts bound together at this time, early 14th century (f. 1r).
John Wethamstede (b. c. 1392, d. 1465), scholar and abbot of St Albans: inscribed 'Iohanne Wathamsted', 15th century (f. 128v).
Egidius Watson: inscribed, late 15th century 'per Egidium Watson' (f. [i] verso).
Richard Amadas (d. 1629), clergyman in Essex: inscription (f. 1r); perhaps responsible for some annotations and for the highlighting of the rubrics in red (ff. [i] verso; 1r; 35r; 36v; 69v passim).
?John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), martyrologist: see Hanna, 'An Oxford library interlude' (2002), 318, 322. Perhaps passed to Cotton by Richard James in or after 1624.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: modern title (f. [i] recto); Cottonian pressmark (f. [i] verso); modern page signatures may be by Cotton.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 28.
Collis, Kristen, Kidd, Peter, and Turner, Nancy K., The St Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013), pp. 13, 66.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), nos. 411–413.
Gerry, Kathryn, ‘Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library’, in Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues, ed. by Laura Cleaver, Alixe Bovey and Lucy Donkin (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 207-223.
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001), no. 379.5.
Hanna, R, 'An Oxford library interlude: the manuscripts of John Foxe the martyrologist', Bodeleian Library Record, 17:5 (2002), 314-316 (pp. 318, 322).
Kauffmann, C. M., Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 30.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 166.
Thomson, Rodney, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, vols. 2 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1982), no.19.
Sharpe, Richard and Willoughby, James, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/6423/?search_term=Cotton%20Titus%20D%20XVI&page_size=500 [accessed 16 August 2016].
Tite, Colin G.C, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 199-200.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.