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Cotton MS Cleopatra A III
- Record Id:
- 040-001103704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00000d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058107889.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III
- Title:
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Latin-Old English glossaries
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1, 4: Parchment flyleaves with contents.
ff. 5-117: Three Latin-Old English glossaries.
ff. 5r-75v: Alphabetical glossary from A-P, beginning: 'Anhelantium eþgiendra', ending: 'Palpitraret clæpette', also in Cotton MS Otho E I.
ff. 76r-91v: Glossary arranged mainly by subject, beginning: 'Aquila earn', ending: 'Simplex anfeald clæne hluttor'.
ff. 92r-117r: Interlinear glossary to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, both prose and verse texts, beginning 'Dissertitudinem gleawness'.
Two former flyleaves numbered ff. 2-3 are now bound separately as Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f. 2. They were formed of one leaf folded in two and contain Augustine's De consensu evangelistarum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103704 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III : Latin-Old English glossaries - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1165]/040-001103704
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058107889.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0930
- End Date:
- 0970
- Date Range:
- Mid 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 180 x 130 mm (165 × 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 117 (where f. 1 is an early modern parchment flyleaf, ff. 2-3 were removed to form Cotton Cleopatra A III/I, f. 2, f. 4 is a medieval parchment flyleaf + 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleafves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon miniscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house, 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: (?) St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury.
Provenance:
Joseph Holland (d. 1605), belonged to him: his name and the date, 1604, inscribed on f. 117r.
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 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.
Two former flyleaves from Cotton MS Cleopatra A III were rebound in Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1 (previously Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*) in March 1870: a note on the upper flyleaf (f. 1r).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Oxford, Bodleian MS Junius 77, a copy of the text made by the scribe Junius, preserves some sections of the text that were lost in the fire of 1731.
- Publications:
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Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 319.
Gwara, Scott, 'Anglo-Saxon schoolbooks', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 400-1100 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp 507-22 (p. 522).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 143.
Salvador-Bello, Mercedes, Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015), pp. 32, 338.
Wood, Michael ' "Stand strong against the monsters": kingship and learning in the empire of King Aethelstan', in Lay intellectuals in the Carolingian World, ed. by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 192-217 (p. 212).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)