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Cotton MS Domitian A IX

Record Id:

040-001103661

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000002

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060430962.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Domitian A IX

Title:

Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect); Runic alphabet; extracts from the Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum; Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beate Hildegardis; (?)John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, with commentary by John Ergome; Verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross; memorandum on King Edward IV of England (1461–1470, 1471–1483); names of the lordships held by the duke of York; Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion

Scope & Content:

This is a composite manuscript composed of fragments bound together in the early modern period. These include:

f. 1r-v: early modern table of contents;

f. 2r: blank, apart from the inscriptions 'Mitte nob. hist. bede de gestis anglor[um]' (in a 12th-century hand) and 'Bind this... and put 4 leaves 9... parchment bifos...' (in an early modern hand).

f. 2v: blank;

ff. 3r–7v: Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum;

f. 7*: blank;

f. 8r: some alphabets;

ff. 8r–v: Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (imperfect);

ff. 9r-v: a fragment of a chronicle in Old English, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect);

f. 10r: a runic alphabet;

f. 10v: blank;

f. 11r: extracts from an Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum;

f. 11v: a runic alphabet with medieval and early modern notes on the names of the runes;

ff. 12r–16v: some verses on the calendar and other computistical notes;

ff. 17r–v: the Revelatio beate Hildegardis;

ff. 18r-83v: the Versus prophetiales attributed to John Thwing of Bridlington, with commentary by John Ergome;

ff. 84r–v: a verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross;

f. 85r: a memorandum on King Edward IV of England (1461–1470, 1471–1483);

f. 85v: the names of the lordships held by the duke of York;

ff. 86r-109r: Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion;

f. 109v: blank apart from a British Museum stamp and a note on the number of folios.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103661

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Domitian A IX : Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,…

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1154]/040-001103661

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 parchment codex

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060430962.0x000001

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Languages:

English, Middle
English, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0750

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

2nd half of 8th century-16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment and ink.

Dimensions: binding 220 × 140 mm (folios range from 210 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 109 (where the 5th unfoliated flyleaf and f. 1 are early modern parchment leaves + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1963.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owner. 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:

[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 573-74.

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

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)