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Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001104076
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000e4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100178832649.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments XXIII
- Title:
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John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected works recorded by John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563) in the second edition of his Illustrium majoris Britanniae scriptorium, or Summary of the Writers of Britain (published in 1557), and was once thought lost. It is likely that this copy of Leland's Panegyricus is the manuscript listed in the 1542 Westminster inventory of the Royal library (see Carley, The Libraries of Henry VIII (2000), p. 92 (H2.423)).
The manuscript was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731 and only fragments of 12 leaves remain.
Contents:
f. 1v: A Latin dedicatory poem, beginning, 'Roma purpuree decus cohortis'.
ff. 2r-12v: John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a Latin panegyric on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, beginning, 'Dicturo mihi de laudibus tuis...'
Decoration:
The arms of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York (Sable, on a cross engrailed argent a lion passant gules between four leopard's faces azure; on a chief or a rose gules barbed vert seeded or between two Cornish choughs proper, topped by a cardinal's hat) partially effaced by fire (f. 1v).
Title enclosed within a red border (f. 2r). Blank space for a decorated initial, probably effaced by fire (f. 2r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104076 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Fragments XXIII : John Leland, Panegyricus ad Cardinalem - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1358]/040-001104076
- 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_100178832649.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1520
- End Date:
- 1530
- Date Range:
- c 1525-1530
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: Approximately 340 × 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 12 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and numerous paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: 16th-century italic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Grey cloth binding; blue endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, cardinal: his arms, partially effaced (f. 1v).
The Old Royal Library: probably the copy of Leland's Panegyricus listed in the 1542 Westminster inventory of the library's collections (see Carley, The Libraries of King Henry VIII (2000), p. 92 (H2.423)).
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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Carley, James (ed.), The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000), p. 92.
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, edited 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)