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Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1
- Record Id:
- 040-001103705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00000e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060428929.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1
- Title:
- Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23, iii.25, imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This codex contains two folios from St Augustine of Hippo's De consensu evangelistarum, copied in England in the second half of the 8th century.These 2 folios were formerly folded and used separately as flyleaves in Cotton Vitellius A XIX and Cotton Cleopatra A III. They were removed from the manuscripts, unfolded and bound together in 1870 in the present volume.
This volume was previously referred to as Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*.
Decoration: sketch of a face (f. 1v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103705 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1 : Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23, iii.25, imperfect) - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 1 : Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment)
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 2 : Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1166]/040-001103705
- 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_100060428929.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 375 × 310 mm (f. 1 folio 325 x 240 mm, text space 270 x 200 mm, f. 2 folio 130 x 225 mm text space 180 x 250 mm).
Foliation: ff. 2 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 39 at the end).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Northumbria; see Lowe, Codices (1972), no. 184)
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: f. 1 was used as flyleaves for Cotton Vitellius A XIX, which may be the collection of texts pertaining to Cuthbert mentioned in one of St Augustine's medieval booklists (ed. by Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's (2008), I, p. 604). The other folio was used as a flyleaf for a glossary, now Cotton Cleopatra A III (f. 2).
John Leland (c.1503–1552), poet and antiquary: annotated by him (Cotton Vitellius A XIX, ff. 2v, 4r, etc.)
Joseph Holland (d. 1605): inscribed with his name and dated 1604 (Cotton Cleopatra A III, 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.
The two flyleaves were removed and rebound together in March 1898 (see note in Cotton Cleopatra A III, f. 1r).
This item was previously known as Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bishop, T. A. M., ‘Notes on Cambridge manuscripts. Part V: MSS. connected with St Augustine’s Canterbury (continued)’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1959–63), p. 93.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), p. 50.
Dumville, David, Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 105.
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 320.
Lowe, E.A., Codices Latini Antiquiores, 11 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-66), II, no. 184.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 381, 576.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 160, 208.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)