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Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII
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- 040-001103697
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- 032-001101582
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00000a
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100162937308.0x000001
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- Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII
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Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry
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This volume comprises four separate manuscripts, made at various times and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631).
(1) ff. 2–36: a collection of treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects, made in England in the 4th quarter of the 15th century.
(2) ff. 37–125: transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, much of it in the hand of Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 16th century (before 1574).
(3) ff. 126–228: Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII, made in England c. 1502.
(4) ff. 229–249: treatises on heraldry, made in England in the 2nd half of the 15th century (the table of contents on ff. 247v–248r dates from the 4th quarter of the 16th century or the 1st quarter of the 17th century).
f. 1r: A list of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638), Cotton's librarian.
(1) ff. 2–36: Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects (England, 4th quarter of the 15th century):
ff. 2r–11v: The procession made at the coronation of Richard II, or the service of lords at the coronation of the king of England (Latin).
ff. 12r–14v: The solemnities of the coronation of Richard II (Latin).
f. 15r: Royal funeral rites when kings come to depart from this world (Latin).
ff. 15v–22r: Modus tenendi Parliamentum (The manner of holding a Parliament) (Latin).
ff. 23r–32r: The office of a marshal and a constable of England, in times of peace and war (Latin and Anglo-Norman French).
ff. 32r–33r: The muster of King Richard II's expedition to Scotland, 1385 (Anglo-Norman French): Anglo-Norman Literature, no. 61.
ff. 33r–35r: Account of the Scottish expedition of King Edward I, 1291 (Anglo-Norman French): Anglo-Norman Literature, no. 59.
(2) ff. 37–125: Transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material (England, 3rd quarter of the 16th century):
f. 37r: An Anglo-Saxon runic inscription, which was 'on the head of a crose found at Beucastell in 1615' (the Bewcastle Cross).
ff. 38r–48r: Excerpts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E ('Ex historia saxonica petroburgensi'), by Laurence Nowell (Old English).
ff. 49r–57r: Excerpts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D ('Ex annalis saxonicis, aliis, qui cum Waltero Gilburnensi in hac Bibliotheca compacti habentur'), by Laurence Nowell (Old English).
ff. 59r–90v: A chronicle of Ireland ('Grace's Annals'), AD 948–1536 (Latin).
ff. 91r–92r: A genealogy of the Butler and Darcy families, counts of Ulster, Kildare and burgesses, or the Bourke family (Latin).
f. 92v: Deleted note; a note about four maps of the world that William Lambarde removed from the volume and gave to Adrian Stokes in 1574.
ff. 93r–96v: 'An abbreuiate of the getting of Ireland & of the decaye of the same' (Finglas's Breviat) (Latin)..
ff. 97r–123r: Various chorographical maps of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. Notes on Irish saints (f. 97v); on archbishoprics and Irishmen (ff. 99v–100r, 101v–102r, 103v–104r); on Scottish islands (f. 108r); extracts from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon on Scotland (ff. 109v–110r) (Latin).
ff. 123v–125r: 'Topographica Walliae Siluestri Geraldi' (Latin).
(3) ff. 126–228: Bernard André's 's History of the life and deeds of King Henry VII (England, c. 1502):
ff. 126r–228v: Bernard André, De vita atque gestis Henrici VII historia (Latin).
(4) ff. 229–249: Treatises on heraldry (England, 2nd half of the 15th century):
ff. 229r–235v: The origin and creation of heralds (Anglo-Norman French).
ff. 236r–243r: The foundation of the Order of the Garter (Anglo-Norman French).
ff. 243r–247r: The foundation of the Order of the knights of Bath (Anglo-Norman French).
ff. 247v-248r: Table of contents in the hand of William Camden (1551–1623) (Latin, 4th quarter of the 16th century or the 1st quarter of the 17th century).
f. 248v: Song beginning 'Te Rosse wolle in to frawnse spryng', printed in Robbins, 'A Song for Victory in France' (Middle English).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103697 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII : Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 2–36 : Treatise on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) (2r–15r); Modus tenendi…
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 37–125 : Transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, much of it in the hand of Laurence Nowell (d.…
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 126–228 : Bernard André, De uita atque gestis Henrici VII historia
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 229–249 : Treatise on heraldry (229r–235v); statutes of the Order of the Garter (236r–243r); treatise on the…
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1 volume
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 15th century-1st quarter 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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Condition: intact
Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 215 × 160 mm.
Foliation: fos. i + 249; i + 1 (ff. i, 1: early modern endleaves) + 35 (ff. 2-36) + 89 (ff. 37-125) + 103 (ff. 126-228) + 21 (ff. 229-249).
Binding: British Museum 1852.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (all four parts).
Part 2 (ff. 37–125) is largely in the hand of Laurence Nowell, antiquary (1530–c. 1570).
Provenance:
ff. 2–36:
William Camden, historian and herald (1551–1623): owned and annotated.
ff. 37–125:
William Lambarde, antiquary and lawyer (1536–1601): owned in 1574 and annotated several pages.
John Joscelyn, Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman (1529–1603): owned.
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, antiquary and politician (1571–1631): owned by 1612 when loaned to Francis Tate (1560–1616), judge and antiquary: Tite, The Early Records, p. 208. Also see below.
ff. 229–249:
William Camden, historian and herald (1551–1623): owned and added table of contnts on ff. 247v–248r.
All four parts:
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, antiquary and politician (1571–1631). Cotton's signature is found on f. 2r ('Ro: Cotton Bruceus'), f. 126r (('Ro: Cotton Bruceus'), f. 229r ('Ro: Cotton Bruceus'). The date '1584' preceding the signature on f. 126r is probably not in Cotton's hand: Tite, The Early Records, p. 208.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (1594–1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton (1621–1702), 3rd baronet. Sir John Cotton 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.
- Publications:
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Joseph Planta, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 575.
Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London, 2003), p. 208.
Part 1 (ff. 2–36):
M. V. Clarke, Medieval Representation and Consent: A study of early parliaments in Englan and Ireland, with special reference to the "Modus tenendi Parliamentum" (London, 1936), pp. 356, 368.
R. J. Dean & Maureeen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), nos. 59, 61.
Part 2 (ff. 37–125):
Richard Butler, ed., Jacobi Grace, Kilkenniensis, Annales Hiberniae (Dublin, 1842).
Robin Flower, 'Laurence Nowell and the discovery of England in Tudor times', Proceedings of the British Academy, 21 (1935), 46–73.
Robin Flower, 'Manuscripts of Irish interest in the British Museum', Analecta Hibernica, 2 (1931), pp. 298, 325–29.
Angelika Lutz, 'The study of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the seventeenth century and the establishment of Old English studies in the universities', in Timothy Graham (ed.), The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon studies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), pp. 76, 80 n. 9.
Alexander B. Taylor, 'Some additional early maps of Scotland', The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 77 (1961), 37–43.
Part 3 (ff. 126–228):
David R. Carlson, 'The writings of Bernard André (c. 1450-c. 1522)', Renaissance Studies, 12 (1998), 229–50.
James Gairdner, ed., Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Brnardo Andrea Tholosale conscripta, Rolls Series (London, 1858), pp. xiii–xvi, 1–75.
Part 4 (ff. 229–249):
Julia Boffey & A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005), no. 306.8.
Rossell Hope Robbins, 'A Song for Victory in France (1492)', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 55 (1954), 289–93.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)