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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Record Id:

040-001103650

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060431512.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Title:

Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect); Quadripartitus (imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii), Coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect); List of Welsh cantrefi, Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (imperfect), Genealogical chronicle of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England, Memorandum of the children of King Edward II of England, Memorandum of the battles fought under King Edward III of England; Gloucester Chronicle and record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester; Scutum Dei triangulum; Abecedarium; Calendar; Letter of William Spring

Scope & Content:

This codex contains:

f. 1*: an early modern list of contents; between f. 1* and f. 2r there are two blank folios;

ff. 2r-15v: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu, letter of Pope Paschal II, Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate, followed by two blank folios, named f. 15a and f. 15b in the digital images;

ff. 16r-29v: Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious;

ff. 30r-70v: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text;

ff. 69* and following, unfoliated folio: between ff. 70v and 71r there are two blank folios;

ff. 71r-94v: Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect);

ff. 95* and following folio: blank folios;

ff. 95r-110v: Quadripartitus (imperfect);

ff. 109* and following folio: between ff. 110v and 111r there are two blank folios;

ff. 111r-119v: Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii) and the coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect);

ff. 120r-125v: List of Welsh cantrefi; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (imperfect); genealogical chronicle of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England; memorandum of the children of King Edward II of England; memorandum of the battles fought under King Edward III of England;

ff. 126r-161v: Gloucester Chronicle and record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester;

ff. 162r-174v: Scutum Dei triangulum, abecedarium, calendar;

f. 175r-v: Letter of William Spring, addressed probably to Sir Simonds D’Ewes, with added notes.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103650

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Domitian A VIII : Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of…

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1153]/040-001103650

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 parchment codex

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

English
English, Middle
English, Old
English.
Welsh

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1075

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment and ink, paper and ink (f. 175).

Dimensions: 220 × 190 mm (text block ranges from 200 x 110 mm to 120 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 175 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end, where ff. i-iii, 1 are early modern endleaves).

Script: Protogothic, Gothic, English vernacular minuscule, Anglicana, Anglicana cursive.

Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in April 1955.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: listed amongst his manuscripts in Additional MS 36682 (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 205).

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:

[J. Planta], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 573.

David Dumville (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition I, a Facsimile of MS F: The Domitian Bilingual (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 11-13.

Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 205-206.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)