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Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000011
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
- Title:
- Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
- Scope & Content:
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This codex contains:
f. 1r: early modern table of contents;
ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior;
ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes;
ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon;
ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum;
f. 53v: blank;
ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343;
ff. iii–iv: medieval endleaves.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103710 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI : Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v : Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De…
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 54–106, ii-iii : Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
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- 032-001101582[1169]/040-001103710
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_A_VI (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0945
- End Date:
- 1360
- Date Range:
- mid-10th century-mid-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by water in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 185 × 145 mm (folios 175 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 106 (where ff. i-1 are early modern endleaves and ff. ii and the unfoliated leaf following it are medieval endleaves, + 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning and the end).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1953.
- Custodial History:
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (f. 1r).
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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 208.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 576.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)