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Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103756
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000028
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060429744.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII
- Title:
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Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great; history of the kings of Britain and England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains three items which were bound together in the early modern period.
The manuscript includes:
ff. 1r-v: an early modern table of contents and a list;
ff. 2r-58v: Old English homilies, a coronation oath, Ælfric's translation of the Pater Noster, and an Old English translation of the Apostle's creed, copied in the third quarter of the 11th century;
ff. 59r-90v: B.'s Vita S Dunstani (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2342) and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great, copied in the early 11th century;
ff. 91r-157v: a history of the kings of England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations to AD 1304, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103756 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII : Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58 : Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles'…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 59–90 : Vita sancti Dunstani by B; rhymed responsory from an office for Gregory the Great
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 91–157 : De gestis Britonum et Anglorum,attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1192]/040-001103756
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060429744.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 11th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Leaves slightly damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 195 × 165 mm (text block ranges from 175 x 85 mm to 140 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 157 (where f. 1 is an early modern endleaf + 5 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the end + 1 blank, unfoliated leaf between ff. 55 and 56).
Script: Caroline minuscule; English vernacular minuscule; Gothic littera textualis; Gothic cursive.
Binding: BM/BL in-house, 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owner; lent to James Ussher (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 211).
James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), Church of Ireland archbisohp of Armagh and scholar: inscribed with a note and his name (f. 59r).
Richard James (b. c. 1591, d. 1638), antiquary: inscribed with a note (f. 67v).
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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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 8 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 2000), no. 185.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 579
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 119 [exhibition catalogue].
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 2342.
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)