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Cotton MS Fragments XXIX
- Record Id:
- 040-001104082
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000ea
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments XXIX
- Title:
- Miscellaneous fragments, including parts of a liturgical text (ff. 1–2); a neumed gradual (f. 3); a computistical text (ff. 4–5); Paulinus of Aquileia (Ps.-Augustine of Hippo), Liber exhortationis (ff. 6–7, 10); a computistical text with a diagram of the winds (f. 8); Gregory the Great, Uita sancti Benedicti abbatis (f. 9: BHL 1102); Oratio sancti Brendani (ff. 11–12); a papal bull (ff. 13–14); a Bible (f. 15); a medical text (ff. 18–19); a pontifical (ff. 27–30); a chronicle (f. 33); the endleaves of Cotton MSS Vespasian B X, ff. 1–23, + Titus A XVIII (ff. 36–39: Crick 93); an heraldic treatise (f. 40); a service-book with musical notation (f. 42); a Bible (ff. 45–47); a collection of decretals (ff. 48–51); a theological treatise relating to angels (ff. 52–53); a schedule of the lands of St Albans Abbey (f. 54); a theological text (ff. 55–56); a letter of Pope John XXII (1316–34), 1322 (ff. 58–59); the endleaves of Cotton MS Otho A XII, containing the opening words of papal bulls (ff. 60–61); a calendar (ff. 63–64); Prophetie Merlini (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britannie, §§112-115) (ff. 66–67); a chronicle (f. 74); a treatise relating to weights and measures (f. 76); an astrological table (f. 91); a chronicle of Anglo-Saxon history (ff. 92–93); an heraldic treatise(s) (ff. 40, 100–101); an heraldic treatise (ff. 100–101); letters patent of King Henry VIII of England (1509–47), 9 November 1518 (f. 110)
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): Latin; French (f. 68); English (f. 109)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104082 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Fragments XXIX : Miscellaneous fragments, including parts of a liturgical text (ff. 1–2); a neumed gradual (f. 3); a computistical… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1364]/040-001104082
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 11th century-16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 340 × 260 mm
Foliation: fos. 111
Binding: British Museum 1962
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: (?)the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England, France and Italy; (?)abbey of Saint–Bertin, Saint–Omer (ff. 4–5); Durham Cathedral Priory (ff. 36–39); St Albans Abbey (f. 54)
- Publications:
- Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis [BHL], Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), & Henricus Fros (ed.), Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis: Novum Supplementum, Subsidia Hagiographica, 70 (Brussels, 1986); Crick, Julia C., The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 3, A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1989)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- ff. 4–5 are part of the same manuscript as Cotton MS Fragments I; ff. 25–26 have been removed to form Cotton MS Appendix LXIV, ff. 1–2; f. 57 has been removed to form Cotton MS Otho B III, f. 28; f. 78 has been removed to form MS. Royal 9 A. X, f. 1