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Cotton MS Domitian A II
- Record Id:
- 040-001103632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0003e3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064358880.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A II
- Title:
- John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle titled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’.
f. 7v: computistical tables.
ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle', beginning: 'Quoniam de situ et institutione loci nostri ecclesie scilicet beati Martini de Bello aliquanta iam memorie commendata ad posterorum monimentum nobis in promptu habentur', ending: ‘Pro mortuis, abbas nichil cum aliis dabit’.
ff. 22r-130v: Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli (The Book About Battle Church) known as the 'Long Chronicle', beginning: 'Anno ab incarnatione Domini mlxvi dux Normannorum nobilissimus Willelmus cum manu valida pugnatorum in Angliam transnavigavit'.
ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to AD 1292, partially illegible, beginning: 'in Vallia Iuor filius Tad Walad regnavit super Wallenses xlix annis'.
ff. 142r-144r: An untitled summary of the Brut, beginning: '[B]rutus entra la terre que ore est apele Engelterre', and ending: 'il perira de suoame mort'.
ff. 144r-144v: A summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs.
[ff. i, 1v are blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff. 2-7, 8-130 and 131-144.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103632 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A II : John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff 2–7 : John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables
Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff 8–130 : Battle Chronicle ('Short Chronicle'); Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli ('Long Chronicle')
Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff 131–144 : Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut
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- 032-001101582[1147]/040-001103632
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- 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_100064358880.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: ff. 2-7: 225 × 185 mm (text space: 170-180 x 105-120 mm (ff. 2r-7r); 195 x 130 mm (f. 7v)); ff. 8-130: 225 x 185 mm (text space: 170 x 105 mm (ff. 8r-9v); 165-170 x 95-105 mm (ff. 10r-130v)); ff. 131-144: 225 x 185 mm (text space: 165-170 x 110-115 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 144 ( + 2 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. i is a medieval parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between ff. 6 and 7, f. [6a]; 2 unfoliated parchment leaves between ff. 21 and 22, ff. [21a], [21b]).
Binding: British Museum/British Library-in house. Rebound in 1974; stamped with Cotton's bookplate.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 204); table of contents written by his librarian Richard James (f. 1r); his bookplate (front outside cover).
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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Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ (Oxford: Sheldon, 1696), p. 133.
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, British Museum, 1802), p. 572.
Catto, Jeremy and Linne Mooney, ‘The Chronicle of John Somer, OFM’, in Chronology, Conquest and Conflict in Medieval England, Camden Miscellany 34, Camden Fifth Series, 10 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1997), pp. 197-285.
Davis, Henry W. C., 'The Chronicle of Battle Abbey', English Historical Review, 29 (1914), 426-34.
Dean, Ruth J., and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: a Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 15.
Hardy, Thomas Duffus, Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, to the End of the Reign of Henry VII., 3 vols (London: Longman, 1862-71), III (1871), p. 394.
Ker, Neil R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 8.
Mooney, Linne R., The Kalendarium of John Somer (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998), p. 5.
Prescott, Andrew, English Historical Documents (London: British Library, 1988), p. 14.
Roberts, Julian and Andrew G. Watson, John Dee’s Library Catalogue (London, Bibliographical Society, 1990).
Searle, Eleanor, ‘Battle Abbey and Exemption: the Forged Charters’, English Historical Review, 83 (1968), 449-80.
Searle, Eleanor, The Chronicle of Battle Abbey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 24.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 204.
Vincent, Nicholas, ‘King Henry II and the Monks of Battle: the Battle Chronicle Unmasked’, in Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting, ed. by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 264-86.
- 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.