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Cotton MS Cleopatra B I
- Record Id:
- 040-001103732
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00001c
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B I
- Title:
- A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin.
- Scope & Content:
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A composite miscellany containing five parts with hagiographic, devotional and prophetic texts in Latin, probably brought together in the library of Sir Robert Cotton. The miscellany contains one of the three extant copies of the canonisation dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1190), founder of the Gilbertine Order. The boards of the 17th-century Cottonian binding are kept separately as Cotton MS Cleopatra B I/1.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103732 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I : A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin. - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 1-23 : ff. 1r-23r: De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, excerpted from Ralph of Coggeshall's…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 24-31 : ff. 24r-31v: Vita sancti Edmundi archiepiscopi Cantuarensis, 'Beatus eadmundus cantuariensis…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 32-170 : ff. 33r-167r: Canonization dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham: a vita followed by letters of the bishops…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 171-176 : ff. 173r-178r: Verses on the life of Henry V, followed by prayers for his commemoration, 'Intencio auctoris…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 177-184 : ff. 179r-182v: Fragment of the Meditationes Vitae Christi attributed to Bonaventure: 'Explicit liber aureus…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Cleopatra B I - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1180]/040-001103732
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_B_I (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1500
- Date Range:
- c 1300 - c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Foliation: ff. 184 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves + 1 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaf + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end). The manuscript's original foliation (ff. ii + 184) has been crossed out; ff. [iv], [186], [189] have modern pastedowns.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house, rebound in 1983; the boards of the 17th-century Cottonian binding are kept separately as Cotton MS Cleopatra B I/1.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: table of contents (f. 1r) by the so-called stylized hand, an unidentified scribe working in the Cotton library (Tite, The Early Records, 2003, p. 249); Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), first librarian of the Cotton library, made extracts from this manuscript (now in Oxford, Bodleian Library, James MS 28); the manuscript is listed in early catalogues of the Cotton library (cited in Tite, The Early Records, 2003, p. 210).
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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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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The Book of St Gilbert, ed. by Raymonde Foreville and Gillian Keir (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987) [edition and facing translation of ff. 33r-167r].
Cole, Charles Auguste, ed., Henry the Fifth, King of England: I. - Vita Henrici Quinti, Roberto Redmanno Auctore, II. - Versus Rhythmici in Laudem Regis Henrici Quinti, III. - Elmhami Liber Metricus de Henrico Quinto (London: Longman, 1858), pp. 63-75 [The verse text and prayers dedicated to Henry V, edited from this manuscript].
Coote, Lesley A., Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England (York: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 255-56 [short summary of the manuscript's prophetic texts].
Foreville, Raymonde, Un procès de canonisation à l'aube du XIIIe siècle (1201-1202) Le livre de saint Gilbert de Sempringham (Paris, Bloud & Gay, 1943), p. xiv [discussion of the manuscript]; pp. 3-110 [edition of the Canonization dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham, with references to this manuscript in the textual apparatus].
Foreville, Raymonde, 'La crise de l'ordre de Sempringham au xiie siècle: Nouvelle approche du dossier des freres lais', in Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1983, ed. by Reginald Allen Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1984), pp. 39-57 [discussion and edition of this manuscript's letters about the Gilbertine lay brothers].
Fros, Henricus, ed., Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis: Novum Supplementum, Subsidia Hagiographica,70 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1986), p. 278, no. 2412f [refers to the vita of Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, from another manuscript].
Planta, Joseph, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 577.
Stevenson, Josephus, ed., Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon anglicanum, De expugnatione Terrae Sanctae libellus, Thomas Agnellus De morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliae junioris, Gesta Fulconis filii Warini, Excerpta ex Otiis imperialibus Gervasii Tileburiensis (London: Longman, 1875) pp. 209-62.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 210, 248.
Zippel, G., 'La lettera del Diavolo al clero, dal secolo XII all Riforma', Bulletino Dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per Il Medio Evo, 70 (1958), 125-79 [discussion and edition of the Epistola Luciferi from another manuscript].
- Exhibitions:
- Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Life of Gilbert of Sempringham. Exhibited: Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015.