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Cotton MS Fragments VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001104057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000d1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100178830832.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments VIII
- Title:
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Meditationes
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains fragments from six leaves of a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731.
Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: A collection of fragments from a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, containing the following rubrics: 'Subtilior meditacio troplogica capl. vi' (f. 1r); 'Moralis meditacio' (f. 1r); and 'Pia meditacio de Magdalena' (f. 1v).
Decoration:
1 paraph mark in red ink (f. 1v). Rubrics (ff. 1r, 1v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104057 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Fragments VIII : Meditationes - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1343]/040-001104057
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100178830832.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: Approximately 275 × 195 mm, written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 6 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and numerous unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Grey cloth binding; blue endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: possibly cited in one of his catalogues, Add MS 36789, f. 43r ('Item Meditationes in prose'; see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 230). 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.
- Publications:
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Prescott, A. '"Their Present Miserable State of Cremation": The Restoration of the Cotton Library', in Sir Robert 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)