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Cotton MS Cleopatra D I

Record Id:

040-001103793

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000035

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100066369987.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Cleopatra D I

Title:

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini; Epitaph of Vitalis; Vegetius, De Re Militari; Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-82r: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (Concerning Architecture).

f. 82v: Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini (Abridgments from the Sentences of St Augustine); Epitaph of Vitalis.

ff. 83r-128v: Vegetius, De Re Militari (Concerning Military Matters).

ff. 130r-197v: Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (Collection of Wonderful Things).

Two flyleaves containing Psalter fragments (former f. [i] and f. [ii]) have been removed and rebound in Royal 13 D.I* (f. 39).

Decoration:

See separate parts.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103793

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Cleopatra D I : Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti…

Contains:

Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82 : Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De architectura; Extracts from Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis…
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 83–128 : Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De Re Militari
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 129–197 : Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1205]/040-001103793

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100066369987.0x000001

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 11th century-12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 × 180 mm.

Foliation: ff. 197 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1902.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: a table of contents written by Cotton (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:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.

Publications:

Alexander, J. J. G, 'Scribes as Artists: the Arabesque Initial in Twelfth -Century English Manuscripts', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays presented to N. R. Ker, ed. by M. B. Parkes and A. G. Watson (London: Scolar Press, 1978), pp. 100-03.

Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), p. 38 and no. 375.

Gameson, Richard, 'The circulation of books between England and the Continent, c. 871-c. 1100', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume 1: c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 361.

Gameson, Richard, 'Anglo-Saxon scribes and scriptoria', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume 1: c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 101.

Gameson, Richard, 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: The Hambledon Press, 1995), p. 124.

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), no. 325.1.

James, Montague Rhodes, The Ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 519.

Ker, Neil R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society,1964), p. 43.

Paniagua, David, 'An Inventory of the Manuscripts of Julius Solinus', Scriptorium, 73 (2019), 101-25 (p. 108).

Sharpe, Richard and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 2 August 2016]

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.