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Cotton MS Titus D XXIV

Record Id:

040-001103594

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0003a2

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100165160607.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Titus D XXIV

Title:

Compilation of verse; extracts from Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; De Romanis imperatoribus; a series of epitaphs; De coloribus et mixtionibus; computistical texts; formulas for the visitation of the sick; Gloria in excelsis; commentary on Juvenal, Satires.

Scope & Content:

The manuscript consists of a main part, and two fragmentary sections (one at the beginning and one at end) that were probably added as flyleaves at some point after the second half of the 14th century. The main part (ff. 5-156) is a diverse compilation written roughly in the last quarter of the 12th century or first quarter of the 13th century by numerous scribes, mostly in Latin, but with a few sections in Anglo-Norman and Old English. It contains: extracts from longer prose works, such as the Historia Anglorum (History of the English) by Henry of Huntingdon (d. 1157) epitaphs; hagiographical poems; moralising verses; hymns; and miscellaneous shorter texts, poems or couplets.

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: A fragment written in the second half of the 14th century of two three-part settings, in score, of Gloria in excelsis, with notes on a 5-line stave.

ff. 5r-156v: A mostly poetic miscellany, including: excerpts from Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum [ff. 6r-13r, 100v-106r]; De Romanis imperatoribus (About the Roman Emperors) [ff. 13r-15v]; Sortes duodecim Patriarcharum (The Book of Fate of the Twelve Patriarchs) [ff. 16r-19v]; Marbod, Bishop of Rennes (d. 1123), Liber lapidum [ff. 19v-21r], and Vita Sancti Laurentii [ff. 112r-118v]; epitaphs for St Augustine (d. 430), Baldwin III (d. 1163) and Amalric I (d. 1174), Kings of Jerusalem, St Werburga (d. c. 700), St Breowa [Winifred] (c. 7th century), Pope Eugenius III (d. 1153), Gamellus, Abbot of Rufford (d. c. 1156), St Gregory the Great (d. 604), and others [ff. 28r-32v, 81r-82v, 88r-91r, 97r-v, 107r, 124v]; Lawrence of Durham (d. 1154), Hypognosticon (Summary of Knowledge), excerpts [ff. 32v-61r]; poems associated with Gilla Pátraic or Patricius (d. 1084), Bishop of Dublin [ff. 74v-79v, 87r-88r]; Versus Damasi ad amicum suum (Verse of Damasus to His Friend) [ff. 91r-94v]; Passio Sancti Mauricii (The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice) [ff. 108r-112r]; Hildebert of Lavardin (d. 1133), Versus de mysterio missae (Verse on the Rite of the Mass), Vita beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae (Life of St Mary of Egypt), and De excidio Troiae (The Fall of Troy) [ff. 119r-v, 120v-124v, 125r-127r]; De coloribus et mixtionibus (On Colours and Pigments), in Latin and Anglo-Norman [ff. 127r-132v]; a metrical calendar of feast days [ff. 138v-140r]; a collection of computistical material, some falsely attributed to Bede the Venerable (d. 735) [ff. 141r-150r]; liturgical orders for celebrating the divine office on Sundays [ff. 150r-156r]; formulas for the visitation of the sick, in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Old English [ff. 156r-v].

ff. 157-158: A fragmentary bifolium containing parts of a commentary on the Satires by Juvenal, written in the mid-12th century.

Decoration:

See separate parts.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103594

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Titus D XXIV : Compilation of verse; extracts from Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; De Romanis imperatoribus; a series of…

Contains:

Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 1–4 : Gloria in excelsis
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156 : Poetic compilation and miscellany: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia ecclesiastica; De Romanis imperatoribus;…
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 157–158 : Commentary on Juvenal, Satires

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1114]/040-001103594

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1130

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Condition: Intact.

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 155 x 95 mm [ff. 1-4]; 160 x 100 mm [ff. 5-156]; 160 x 130 mm (unfolded) [ff. 157-158]. For dimensions of written space, please see separate parts.

Foliation: ff. 158 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end; blue modern paper pastedowns at the back of both upper and lower cover; note of examination on [f. 159]: ‘158 fols. Ex’ […] May 1884’; ff. 1-4 and 157-158 are possibly the near-contemporary medieval flyleaves of ff. 5-156)

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house: gold-tooled brown leather binding; the upper and lower covers gold-stamped with the Cotton arms; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'CHRONICON ANGLIÆ AD ANN. 1194. VERSUS DE VARIIS ARGUMENTIS PASSIONES SANCTORUM ETC. MUS. BRIT. BIBL. COTTON. TITUS D. XXIV'.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of Rufford, Nottinghamshire, a daughter house of Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire: late 12th-century ex-libris inscription (f. 5), ‘Liber Sancte Marie de Ruford’; early 15th-century ex-libris inscription (f. 6), ‘Liber sancte Marie de fr’ Rufforde’.

Thomas Allen of Oxford (b. 1540?, d. 1632), mathematician and antiquary: according to the recorded testimony of Thomas James (b. 1572-3, d. 1629), first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (see Andrew G. Watson, 'Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts', pp. 299, 311).

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: according to John Weever, who used the manuscript for his publication Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britain (London: Thomas Harper, 1631), and also recorded in a checklist of the library’s contents drawn up in 1656-57 (see Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library, p. 200).

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:

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Publications:

Bell, David N., An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain, Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1992), pp. 164, 180, 203, 209, 214, 217.

Careri, Maria, Christine Ruby and Ian Short, Livres et écritures en français et en occitan au XIIe siècle: Catalogue illustré (Rome: Viella, 2011), no. 35.

Dean, Ruth J., & Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 387.

Hughes-Hughes, Augustus, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum , vol. I (London: British Museum, 1906), p. 256.

Hunt, Richard W., ‘The Collection of Mediaeval Latin Verse in MS. Cotton Titus D. XXIV: Supplementary Notes’, Medium Ævum, 16 (1947), pp. 6-8.

Hunt, Tony, ‘Early Anglo-Norman receipts for colours’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 58 (1995), pp. 203–09.

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 201.

Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn., (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 164.

Mozley, J. H., ‘The collection of mediæval Latin verse in MS. Cotton Titus D. XXIV’, Medium Ævum, 11 (1942), pp. 1–45.

Munk Olsen, Birger, 'The Cistercian and Classical Culture', in La réception de la littérature classique au Moyen Age (Ixe-XIIe siècle) (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalum Press, 1995), pp. 95-131 (pp. 108, 127).

Petzold, Andreas, ‘De coloribus et mixtionibus: the earliest manuscripts of a Romanesque illuminator’s handbook’, in Linda L. Brownrigg (ed.), Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992 (Los Altos Hills, CA, 1995), pp. 59–65.

Watson, Andrew G., 'Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays presented to N.R. Ker, ed. by Michael B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London: Scolar, 1978), pp. 279-314 (pp. 299, 311).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), pp. 566-67:

‘Codex membran. In 8vo. constans foliis 158.

1. Chronicon, a Gulielmi in Angliam adventu, ad A. C. 1194. 6.

2. De Romanis imperatoribus, ab Augusto ad Arcadium et Honorium. 13.

3. Versus de variis argumentis, ut. 16. De XII. Filiis Jacobi. Marbodaeus de gemmis. Hymnus ad Mariam. Versus Ven. Bedae, supposititii. – Girardi Archiep. Eborac. – S. Patricii episcopi. – De rebus Hyberniae admirandis. Invocatio S. Patricii. Versus Damasi ad amicum suum. De conversatione S. Germani Lugd. Ep. Epitaphium B. Gregorii Pontiff. Rom. De signis et prodigiis. De Bruto, lredo, Elfleda, Edgaro, Cnuto, &c.

4. Passio S. Mauricii et fociorum ejus; versibus rhythmicis. 108.

5. Passio Sci. Laurentii martyris; versibus rhythmicus. 112.

6. Versus Hildeberti Coenomanensis episcopi, de corpore Christi; de Sco. Nicolao, de S. Zofima, de S. Maria Aegyptiaca, &c. 119.

7. De distemperandis coloribus ad scribendum vel illuminandum. (Latine et Gallice.) 127.

8. De gemmis pretiosis. 132. b.

9. De duobus fociis Britannicis, vita et finis. 134. b.

10. Versus de omnibus festis duodecim lectionum per annum. 138. b.

11. Versus Bedae de horis, atomis, et momentis; iter lunae per zodiacum, &c. 141.

12. De computo ecclesiastico. 144.’