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Cotton MS Domitian A XII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103680
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000005
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063638299.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A XII
- Title:
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Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6; Cronica de Kirkstall; Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains three parts that were produced in different places and periods of time. The first part (ff. 3-54) contains a chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6. The second part (ff. 57-140) contains another chronicle from Brutus to 1430, with the added title Cronica de Kirkstall (Chronicle of Kirkstall), that may have been written at the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall in Leeds. The third part (ff. 141-158) contains sermons by Ivo of Chartres (b. c. 1040, d. 1115), bishop of Chartres. The three parts were joined together at some point in the early 17th century, perhaps in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631).
Contents:
ff. 3r-54r: A chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6.
ff. 55r-56r: A table of contents for the preceding chronicle.
ff. 57r-140v: Cronica de Kirkstall.
ff. 141r-151r: Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie (Sermon on the Dedication of a Church).
ff. 151r–158v: Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum (Sermon on the Sacraments of the Converted).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 2r: A table of contents, added by Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), librarian for Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631)
[ff. 1r, 1v, 2v, 54v, 56v are blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Domitian A XII, ff. 3-56, 57-140, 141-158.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103680 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A XII : Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6; Cronica de Kirkstall; Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Domitian A XII, ff 3–56 : Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6
Cotton MS Domitian A XII, ff 57–140 : Cronica de Kirkstall
Cotton MS Domitian A XII, ff 141–158 : Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum
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- 032-001101582[1157]/040-001103680
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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_100063638299.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment (ff. 3–56, 141–158); Paper (ff. 57–140).
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm (text space: 180 x 100 mm [ff. 1r-56r]; 160 x 110 mm [ff. 57r-140v]; 160 x 100 mm [ff. 141r-158v]).
Foliation: ff. 158 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); ff. 1-2 are 17th-century endleaves; the outer margin of f. 7 has been repaired with new parchment; the lower half of f. 54 has been repaired with new parchment (loss of text); 17th-century foliation on ff. 3-158 has been crossed out.
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r-140v); Protogothic (ff. 141r-158v).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Brown half leather binding; Cotton’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘LATIN CHRONICLES, ETC.’; rebound on 25 January 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his bookplates gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his fore-edge inscription (illegible); his binding instructions on f. 1r (‘Dooble Bind (?) Claspes’); his pressmark on f. 1v; f. 2r a table of contents was added by Cotton’s librarian Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638) on f. 2r; the manuscript is listed in his catalogues (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), pp. 206-07).
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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Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1802), p. 572.
Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a fundatione usque ad annum 1396, auctore Thoma de Burton, abbate, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, 3 vols, Rolls Series (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1867–68), II (1868), pp. xxxiv–xxxv.
Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913), pp. 35–36, 279–91.
Krochalis, Jeanne E., ‘History and Legend at Kirkstall in the Fifteenth Century’, in Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997), pp. 231–56 (pp. 234–35).
Lyons, Ponsonby A., 'Ancient Formula', Notes & Queries, 4th series, 6 (1870) p. 152.
Taylor, John, The Kirkstall Abbey Chronicles, Publications of the Thoresby Society, 42 (Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1952), pp. 12, 35–36.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 572.
Watson, Andrew G., The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 34 (no. 78c), pp. 50-51 (no. 169c-d).
- 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.