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Cotton MS Fragments I
- Record Id:
- 040-001104048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000c6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100136133559.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments I
- Title:
- Historical compilation related to Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus
- Scope & Content:
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These 30 leaves originally belonged to a 12th-century manuscript, containing a historical compilation closely related to the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer. The manuscript has been shown to be contemporaneous with the autograph copy of Lambert's work (now Ghent, University Library, MS 92).
Cotton MS Fragments I was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731 and its surviving leaves have been bound out of their original order. Two additional leaves from the manuscript are now bound separately as Cotton MS Fragments XXIX, ff. 4-5.
For a detailed breakdown of the manuscript's contents, see Derolez, 'Le Liber Floridus' (1982), pp. 122-26.
Contents:
ff. 1r-30v: Historical compilation related to Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus (imperfect).
Decoration:
A circular plan of the city of Jerusalem (f. 19r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104048 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Fragments I : Historical compilation related to Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1336]/040-001104048
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100136133559.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: Approximately 260 × 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 30 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end); f. i is a modern paper flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Library in-house. Brown half-leather binding, with the Cottonian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Rebound 2022.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern France (probably Saint-Bertin). The manuscript was probably made in the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Bertin, in Saint-Omer.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet.
Sir John Cotton 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.
- Publications:
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Castaldi, Lucia, [Review of Derolez, A Key to the Encyckopaedia], Studi Medievali, 45 (2004), 264-71 (pp. 267-68).
Derolez, Albert, ''Le Liber Floridus' et l'énigme du manuscrit Cotton Fragments vol. 1', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 17 (1982), 120-29.
Derolez, Albert, The Autograph Manuscript of the Liber Floridus: A Key to the Encylopedia of Lambert of Saint-Omer, Corpus Christianorum Autographa Medii Aevi, 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998).
Derolez, Albert, ‘Codex Aldenburgensis, Cotton Fragments Vol. I, and the origins of the Liber Floridus’, Manuscripta, 49 (2005), 139–63.
Derolez, Albert, 'Lambertus Sancti Audomari Can.', in La trasmissione dei testi latini del medioevo: Medieval Latin Texts and Their Transmission, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldia, 3 vols (Florence: Impruneta, 2004), I, pp. 238-43.
Derolez, Albert, 'The Abbey of Saint-Bertin, the Liber Floridus, and the Origin of the Gesta Francorum Hierusalem expugnantium', Manuscripta, 57 (2013), 1-28 (pp. 4-7, 26).
Derolez, Albert, The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript Ghent, University Library MS 92 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015).
Giombini, M., ‘La tradizione manoscritta del Liber Floridus e la questione dei frammenti Cotton vol. 1’, Notizie da Palazzo Albani: Rivista di storia e teoria delle arti (1993–2000), 9-17.
Prescott, Andrew, ""Their Present Miserable State of Cremation": The Restoration of the Cotton Library', in SirRobert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 391-454.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 230.
Verhelst, Daniel, 'Les textes eschatologiques dans le Liber Floridus', in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, ed. by Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst, and Andries Welkenhuysen (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988), pp. 299-332 (p. 304).
Vorholt, Hanna, Shaping Knowledge: The Transmission of the Liber Floridus, Warburg Institute Studies and Texts, 6 (London: The Warburg Institute, 2017), pp. 7, 27, 28 fig. 11, 59 n. 59, 153, 154, 212.
Vorholt, Hanna, 'The Local, Regional, and Universal in Knowledge Compilations: Observations on the Codex Aldenburgensis', in Beetween Encylopaedia and Chorography: Defining the Agency of Early Modern "Cultural Encyclopaedias" from a Transcultural Perspective, ed. by A. Brofka (Berlin and Boston, forthcoming).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)