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Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103771
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00002f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
- Title:
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Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631):
(i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation;
(ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103771 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI : Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours - Contains:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v : Leaf of a Book of Hours
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v : Ancrene Riwle, with added poems and prayers
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1199]/040-001103771
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_c_vi (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1420
- Date Range:
- 1200-1420
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment codex.
Dimensions: 205 × 150 mm (text space: 60/70 x 115/40).
Foliation: ff. 203 (1 leaf missing after f. 190; ff. 2, 3 and 203 are medieval parchment endleaves + 5 unfoliated paper endleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation: i1(f. 1); ii2(ff. 2-3); iii-iv8(ff. 4-19); v10(ff. 20-29); vi6(ff. 30-35); vii-viii8(ff. 36-51); ix6(ff. 52-57); x-xii8(ff. 58-81); xiii5(ff. 82-86); xiv-xvii8(ff. 87-118); xviii3(ff. 119-121); xix-xxii8(ff. 122-153); xxiii6(ff. 154-159); xxiv-xxvi8(ff. 160-183); xxvii8-1(ff. 184-190); xxviii8(ff191-98); xxviii3(ff. 199-201); xxix2(ff. 202-203).
Layout: Written in one column; the number of lines varies from 18 to 28.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum 1963.
Condition: intact.
- Custodial History:
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Both components of this volume were acquired by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: included in the first catalogue of his collection (Harley MS 6018, nos. 87, 362), and the Cottonian catalogue, Additional MS 36789 (f. 7r); See Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 212-13.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and 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’, (Acts of Parliament: 12 and 13 William III, c. 7 of 1701). Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)