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Cotton MS Appendix LI
- Record Id:
- 040-001104026
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000b7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100184119987.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Appendix LI
- Title:
- Computus
- Scope & Content:
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An Irish version of John de Pulcro Rivo's Computus manualis, with additional computistical material in Latin. For a detailed description and translation of the Irish material, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 285-327.
The manuscript was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731 and only fragments now remain.
Contents:
ff. 1r-5: Computus manualis, an ecclesiastical calendar using finger joints to calculate dates.
ff. 5v-6v: Cisiojanus, mnemonic verses, to serve as a way of remembering the liturgical feasts to be celebrated throughout the year. A key is interlined here.
f. 6v: Circular tables with two internal rows of numbers.
f. 7r: A zodiacal calendar, with accompanying marginal notes by the scribe, including a claim that it is the worst computus in Ireland.
f. 7v: On the movement of the moon, planets and the solstice. Detached scraps; text on the kalends, text on unlucky days, text on the time the moon rises in different months, text on the age of the moon.
Decorations:
1 Interlaced initial coloured in red (f. 1r). Letters with red infill throughout.
Display script with red or green infill (usually representing mnemonic verses).
Circular tables with a cross (f. 6v). Zodiacal table (f. 7r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104026 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Appendix LI : Computus - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1321]/040-001104026
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100184119987.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Irish
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1589
- End Date:
- 1589
- Date Range:
- 1589
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Leaves damaged by fire.
Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 145-230 x 65-155m on paper guards 305 x 240mm (written area 135-200 x 90-150mm).
Foliation: ff. 7 (+2 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning + 11 at the end). Rearranged and foliated 18 October 1889.
Script: Irish
Binding: Post-1600: Green leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland (Co. Clare)
Thomas Hickey (Tomás Ó hIceada), a member of the Ó hÍceadha medical family of Co. Clare: The main scribe of the manuscript. Identifies himself in a colophon at f. 6v.
John O'Callanan (Eoin [Ó Callanáin]): Another scribe. Identifies himsel in a colophon at f. 7r. He does not give his surname, but O'Grady identifies him as Eoin Ó Callanáin (Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, 285).
Dermot O'Callanan (Diarmuid y Chall[an]ain): A scribal colophon at f. 7r claims that the above text was written for him. His hand has also been identified by O'Grady (Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, 285).
Provenance:
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet of Connington: Bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to the nation after his death.
The Cotton Library was transferred to the British Museum as under the British Museum Act 1753.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Standish Hayes O'Grady (vol. I) and Robin Flower (vol. II), 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1926; repr. 1992), i, 285-327.
O'Sullivan, William, 'An Irish cisiojanus', Collectanea Hibernica, 29 (1988), 7-13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)