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Cotton MS Domitian A VII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0003e8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A VII
- Title:
- Gospel extracts; ‘Durham Liber Vitae’
- Scope & Content:
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Gospel extracts (ff. 4r–14v), in Latin, middle of the 12th century (Matthew ff. 4r–5v; Mark ff. 6r–8v; Luke ff. 9r–11v; John ff. 12r–14v);
Liber Vitae (‘Durham Liber Vitae’) (ff. 15r–83v), in Latin and Old English (ff. 47r–v), 1st half of the 9th century to 1st half of the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103649 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A VII : Gospel extracts; ‘Durham Liber Vitae’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1152]/040-001103649
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Domitian_A_vii (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century-1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 215 × 145 mm
Foliation: fos. 84; 3 (ff. 1-3: early modern endleaves) + 80 (ff. 4-83) + 1 (f. 84: early modern endleaf)
Binding: Cottonian 17th century, repaired at the British Museum 1840
- Custodial History:
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Origin: (?)Lindisfarne or (?)Monkwearmouth-Jarrow.
Previously owned by:
(?)Chester-le-Street;
Durham Cathedral Priory;
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet, who bequeathed the entire 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.
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: (?)Lindisfarne or (?)Monkwearmouth-Jarrow
- Information About Copies:
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Hamilton Thompson, A., facs. ed., Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis: A collotype facsimile of the original manuscript, with introductory essays and notes, vol. I, Publications of the Surtees Society, CXXXVI (Durham, 1923)
Rollason, David, & Lynda Rollason, facs. eds., The Durham Liber Vitae: London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A. VII, 3 vols (London, 2007)
- Publications:
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 49 [exhibition catalogue].
Janet Backhouse, The Sherborne Missal (London: British Library, 1999), p. 37.
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 80n., 82n., 120.
Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 43.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London: Longmans, Green, 1958), no. 349.
Richard Gameson, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), p. 60.
H.H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 64.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 327 (on ff. 15-45).
Michael Gullick, 'The Scribe of the Carlief Bible: A New Look at Some Late-Eleventh-Century Durham Cathedral Manuscripts', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda L. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 61-83 (pp. 68-69).
N.R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 147.
Lawrence Nees, ‘The European context of manuscript illumination in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, 600–900’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 45-65 (p. 64).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N.R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 73.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N.R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 30.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 21, 41.
The Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, ed. by David Rollason and others (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004).
The Durham Liber Vitae: London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A. VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. by David and Lynda Rollason, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2007).
Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis; nec non Obituaria duo ejusdem ecclesiæ, ed. by Joseph Stevenson, Publications of the Surtees Society, [13] (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1841).
Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis: A collotype facsimile of the original manuscript, with introductory essays and notes, ed. by A. Hamilton Thompson, Publications of the Surtees Society, 136 (Durham: Andrews and Co., 1923).
[E. Maunde Thompson and G.F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1884), II: Latin, pp. 81–84.
Colin Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton, The Panizzi Lectures, 1993 (London: British Library, 1994), p. 46, figs 16b, 17.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts,The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1979), no. 527.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), no. 97 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)