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Royal MS 13 D I/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002106872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00001c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 D I/1
- Title:
- Fragmentary Psalter, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1573, d. 1631) dismembered this manuscript in order to provide some of his most valuable manuscripts with high-quality flyleaves, probably before 1612. Around 1616, he used another 42 leaves to replace text he had removed from Royal MS 13 D I. The latter manuscript is a late fourteenth-century collection of historical texts from the church of St Peter-upon-Cornhill that he had borrowed from Patrick Young (d. 1652), librarian of the Upper Library at Westminster Palace. These 42 Psalter leaves were removed from Royal MS 13 D I at the British Museum in the early 1870s. Four leaves that Cotton had used as flyleaves for Cotton MSS Nero C V and D I were then added to the fragmentary Psalter, now with the shelf-mark Royal MS 13 D I*, on 12 October 1872. Flyleaves were removed from another twenty-four Cottonian manuscripts and inserted into Royal MS 13 D I* in 1913. By 24 May 1913, when a list of the Psalter leaves that formerly had been flyleaves in Cottonian manuscripts was added to Royal MS 13 D I*, the manuscript contained 80 folios. The ‘reconstructed’ Psalter still features several gaps but it shows a manuscript with a rich decorative programme, featuring full borders and historiated initials in colours and gold, executed by artists associated with the so-called Bohun workshop. The Psalter has been dated to the mid-fourteenth century and is thought to originate from Northern England, as is indicated by the prominence of saints from this region in the Litany of Saints.
Contents:
ff. 1r-67v: Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript features the following Psalms:
Psalm 1.
Psalm 2: 1-13.
Psalm 9: 9-end.
Psalm 11.Psalm 12: 1, 4-end.
Psalm 13: 1-3.
Psalm 15: 8-end.
Psalm 16.
Psalm 17: 1-28, 33-39 (beginning), 44-49, 51-end.
Psalm 18: 1-14 (verse 10 is incomplete). Psalm 24: 13 (end)-end.
Psalm 25: 1-12.
Psalm 26.
Psalm 30.
Psalm 31 (verse 5 and 6 are incomplete).
Psalm 32: 1-2, 5 (end)-9 (beginning).
Psalm 34, 11 (end)-end.
Psalm 35: 1-4.
Psalm 36: 13-34. Psalm 37: 16-end.
Psalm 38.
Psalm 39: 1-12. Psalm 51, 2-end.
Psalm 54: 1-4. Psalm 67, 5-12 (slightly imperfect).
Psalm 67: 14-end (verse 24 is imperfect). Psalm 68: 1-30 (verse 19 is imperfect). Psalm 76: 8 (end)-end.
Psalm 77: 1-29, 31-34, 43-45, 54-56, 58-68, 70-end (verses 9-19, 21-29 and 34 are imperfect). Psalm 78: 1-6. Psalm 81: 4-end.
Psalm 82: 1-6.
Psalm 82, 10-end.
Psalm 83: 1, 4-12.
Psalm 84: 2 (end)-11.
Psalm 86: 3 (end)-end (all verses are imperfect).
Psalm 87: 1-19 (all verses are imperfect).
Psalm 89: 1 (end)-10, 12-end.
Psalm 90: 1-4, and 7-15.
Psalm 91: 3 (end)-end.
Psalm 92: 1, and 3-5.
Psalm 93: 1-8 (beginning), 17 (end)-end.
Psalm 94: 1, 5-11
Psalm 95: 1-5 (beginning), 10-end.
Psalm 96: 1-2, 7 (end)-9. Psalm 101: 13-18 (beginning), and 26-end.
Psalm 102: 1-11, and 13-22.
Psalm 103: 26-end.
Psalm 104: 18 (beginning), 28 (end)-32, 42 (imperfect)-45.
Psalm 105: 4 (end)-11 (beginning), 15-23 and 48-end.
Psalm 106: 7-24 (beginning). Psalm 107: 8-13 (all verses are imperfect).
Psalm 108: 6-12, and 22-26. Psalm 111: 2-end.
Psalm 118: 1-58, [60-67, and (?) 70-77: small fragments, only a few words are intact], 80-end.
Psalm 119-150 (complete).
[The text of Psalms 1, 38 and 52 is lacking (ff. 1r, 16v and 18r)].
ff. 67v-75v: Canticles (Confitebor tibi domine; Ego dixi; Exultavit cor meum; Cantemus Domino; Domine, audivi; Audite, caeli; Te Deum; Benedicite omnia; Benedictus dominus; Magnificat; Nunc dimittis).
ff. 75v-77r: Athanasian Creed (Quicumque Vult).
ff. 77r-80v: Litany of Saints (including the English saints St Oswald, St John of Beverley, St Hilda, St Edmund, St Edward, St Kenelm, St Cuthbert, St Wilfrid, St Dunstan).
Decoration:
Five historiated initials with blue and purple in golden frames with full borders, featuring foliate decoration and illustrations in colours and gold. It is likely that the manuscript may originally have had three or five more historiated initials at Psalm 51, 80, 97, 101, 109. According to Lucy Freeman Sandler (Gothic Manuscripts (1986), II, pp. 145-46) the Psalter is the work of three artists, one of which (producing the historiated initials on f. 1r, f. 16v and f. 18r) worked in a style linked to the so-called Bohun group (five manuscripts produced around 1370 for the Bohun family). According to Lynda Dennison (‘The Dating and Localisation of the Hague Missal (Meermanno-Westreenianum MS 10 A 14)' (2002), pp. 505-506) the artist who produced the historiated initial on f. 20v was from the Southern Netherlands (Dennison identifies his work in several Continental manuscripts).
f. 1r: Initial ‘B’ for Psalm 1 ('Beatus vir') featuring King David enthroned with a harp, to whom the Book of Psalms was attributed; the borders contain a gold background, featuring 16 kings with scrolls (illegible due to damage), Jesse (David’s father), and the Virgin Mary and Christ Child against a blue cloth held up by two angels.
f. 9r: Initial ‘D’ for Psalm 26 ('Dominus illuminatio mea'), featuring the Nativity; the borders contain crossed lines with foliate decoration (acanthus leaves) and zoomorphic and anthropomorphic (Christ’s face) figures in colours against a background in gold; also featuring panels with miniatures: an angel holding a scroll reading ‘AVE MARIA’, a female saint holding a book (St Anne?), shepherds looking up to the sky (2 panels), Christ’s face (2 illustrations), and an angel holding a scroll (reading ‘Gloria in excelsis deo’).
f. 16v: Initial ‘D’: David kneeling and pointing to his mouth (referring to the incipit of Psalm 38:2: ‘Dixi custodiam vias meas ut non delinquam in lingua mea posui ori meo custodiam cum consisteret peccator adversum me’); the borders contain an architectural structure against a gold background, featuring six Old Testament figures (including Moses) in 'windows' and panels with saints (including St Christopher, St George, St Paul and St John the Baptist (?)).
f. 18r: Initial ‘D’: David enthroned, a Fool before him (referring to the incipit of Psalm 52: 'Dixit insipiens in corde suo: Non est Deus'); the borders contain an architectural structure with a gold background, featuring four prophets in 'windows', and six saints (including St Lawrence, Mary Magdalene, St Katherine of Alexandria, and St Edmund).
f. 20v: Initial ‘S’: King David drowning and praying to God (referring to the incipit of Psalm 68: ‘Salvum me fac Deus quoniam intraverunt aquae usque ad animam meam’); the borders contains a gold background with foliate decoration in purple and blue, featuring zoomorphic figures, the faces of Christ and four disciples (the Evangelists?).
Two types of decoration for large initials are visible throughout the manuscript: in the first, most prevalent style large initials are in gold against a blue and purple background with white pen-work decoration, developing into partial (one-sided) borders in gold, blue and purple, with acanthus leaves, some with zoomorphic figures (butterflies) in different colours. In the second style (visible on ff. 14v, 17r, 18v, 42r-48v) large initials are in blue and purple against a gold background, featuring inside their letters foliate decoration in purple, blue and red, and developing into partial (one-sided) borders that are more richly decorated with acanthus leaves and other types of leaves, in blue, purple, green and gold, some featuring acorns, and zoomorphic figures (butterflies and birds). According to Lucy Freeman Sandler (Gothic Manuscripts (1986), II, p. 146) this style can also be associated with the Bohun group. Lynda Dennison ('Oxford, Exeter College MS 47' (1998) pp. 46-47) identifies the style with that of an artist who decorated Vienna, Österreichische National Bibliothek, MS 1826, and Oxford, Exeter College, MS 47: both manuscripts are associated with the patronage of the Bohun family.
Numerous small initials, either in blue and gold surrounded by, respectively, red or purple pen-work decoration, or in gold against a blue and purple background with white pen-work decoration throughout the manuscript. Numerous decorated line-fillers in blue and purple with pen-work in white and golden dots throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106872 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 D I/1 : Fragmentary Psalter, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1092]/040-002106872
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment manuscript
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: original dimension 365 x 240 mm (original text space: 240 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 80 (+ 3 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves and 3 lineated paper leaves mounted on paper stubs with notes at the beginning + 3 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the end); + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 8 (f. 8*) + 4 paper stubs between f. 4 and f. 5; 3 paper stubs between f. 8 and f. 8*; 4 paper stubs between f. 12 and f. 13; 3 paper stubs between f. 41 and f. 42; 5 paper stubs between f. 48 and f. 49; 5 paper stubs between f. 72 and 73; 5 paper stubs between f. 78 and f. 79; f. 48 is a fragment of a torn leaf; ff. 1, 2, 4, 5, 14-18, 20, 22, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38 have been resized to different dimensions, sometimes resulting in loss of lines on the upper or lower half of the page; ff. 6, 24, 34, 37, 41 are strips of parchment, containing only a few lines of upper or lower halves of pages; f. 3 and f. 29 have been resized both in length and width, resulting both in the loss of lines and the breaking off of the remaining lines; f. 28 has been cut off vertically in the middle of the page; ff. 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 38 are resized parchment pages pasted onto paper leaves; ff. 7, 8, 31, 33, 39, have 2 parchment sections, 1 containing the upper half and 1 containing the lower half of a page, pasted onto a paper leaf (with space in between them); the upper half of f. 7 is made from 2 parchment strips, used in different Cottonian manuscripts (see Provenance) joined together; f. 23 contains two fragments, 1 of the right side of the upper half and 1 of the lower half of the page pasted onto a paper leaf; f. 40 contains two fragments of the upper half of the page pasted onto a paper leaf; the parchment leaves of ff. 1-6, 15, 16, 18-20, 22, 24-30, 32, 35-38, 41 and 49 have been mounted onto paper stubs. ff. 8, 22, 25, 26, 30, 37, 38, 40 have significant fire damage; several other folios have damage from strips of glue or ink; the text on f. 1v has faded.
Script: Gothic (Textualis).
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house binding (gold-tooled red leather binding, inscribed in gold on the spine: ‘PSALTERIUM’).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, N (?).
Provenance:
An unidentified Protestant owner, 16th century: throughout the manuscript references to the pope have been erased (e.g. the epithet of the pope as ‘domnum apostolicum’ (f. 78v) has been erased and crossed out).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: dismembered the original manuscript around 1612, and used some of the leaves as flyleaves for other manuscripts in his collection. Their origins are noted on three lineated paper leaves at the beginning of the manuscript (ff. [iv-vi]):
f. 1 was formerly Cotton MS Claudius D VI, f. 4.
f. 2 was formerly Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 286.
f. 3 was formerly Cotton MS Vespasian D X, f. 144.
f. 4. was formerly Cotton MS Claudius D VI, f. 221.
f. 5 was formerly Cotton MS Claudius D VI, f. 1.
f. 6 was formerly Cotton MS Claudius A VI, f. 1.
f. 7: the upper half of f. 7 formerly was Cotton MS Claudius A VI, f. 294; a second strip containing the 2 subsequent lines of the text most likely comes from Cotton MS Claudius A VI, f. 292 (it has ‘292’ written on it, but is not accounted for in the notes on ff. [iv-vi]); The lower half of f. 7 formerly was Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, f. 1.
f. 8 was formerly Cotton MS Tiberius A X, f. 190 and f. 1.
f. 13 was formerly Cotton MS Vespasian D IV, f. 172 and f. 1*.
f. 14 was formerly Cotton MS Cleopatra D IX, f. 168 and f. 169.
f. 15 was formerly Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 2.
f. 16 was formerly Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 1.
f. 17 was formerly Cotton MS Cleopatra D IX, f. 1 and f. 2.
f. 18 was formerly Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 1.
f. 19 was formerly Cotton MS Vespasian D X, f. 145.
f. 20 was formerly Cotton MS Otho B XIV, f. 2.
f. 21 was formerly Cotton MS Claudius B V, f. 137 and f. 1.
f. 22 was formerly Cotton MS Vitellius C III, 142.
f. 23 was formerly Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f. 1 and Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, f. 1.
f. 24 was formerly Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, f. 225.
f. 25 was formerly Cotton MS Vitellius C III, f. 2.
f. 26 was formerly Cotton Ms Tiberius C XIII, f. 257.
f. 27 was formerly Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 1.
f. 28 was formerly Cotton MS Claudius E VIII, f. 1.
f. 29 was formerly Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 158.
f. 30 was formerly Cotton MS Tiberius C XIII, f. 1.
f. 31 was formerly Cotton MS Caligula A X, f. 209 and f. 1.
f. 32 was formerly Cotton MS Cleopatra D III, f. 1.
f. 33 was formerly Cotton MS Julius A V, f. 1 and f. 2.
f. 34 was formerly Cotton MS Faustina B II, final leaf (also marked ‘Claudius A VII’).
f. 35 was formerly Cotton MS Cleopatra D III, f. 203.
f. 36 was formerly Cotton MS Otho B XIV, f. 280.
f. 37 was formerly Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, f. 1.
f. 38 was formerly Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f. 1.
f. 39 was formerly Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, last leaf and first leaf.
f. 40 was formerly Cotton MS Nero A VIII, last leaf and first leaf.
f. 41 was formerly Cotton MS Faustina B II, f. 1.
f. 48 was formerly Cotton MS Faustina B VI, beginning of vol. I.
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.
Cotton apparently also placed 42 leaves in Royal 13 D I between Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae. The manuscript does not have an entry in any of Cotton's loans records, but he almost certainly borrowed the manuscript from the Old Royal Library before 1616. Around this time, he used the Psalter leaves to replace a section, containing Nicholas Trivet’s Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt, that he removed from Royal MS 13 D I* and moved to Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff. 174-233 (see discussion Carley and Tite, 'Sir Robert Cotton as Collector of Manuscripts', (1992), pp. 94-99). The Royal manuscript, including the fragmentary Psalter, was returned to the Old Royal Library by 1666, when its new contents were recorded in a catalogue: Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v lists the fragmentary Psalter as 'Precationes quaedam ex Psalmi’; the manuscript’s new section is also recorded in David Casley, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library (London, 1734).
In 1872 the Psalter leaves were removed from Royal 13 D I and bound together in a volume with the shelfmark 13 D I* in the following order:
ff. 9-12: formerly Royal MS 13 D I*, ff. 5-8.
ff. 42-47: formerly Royal MS 13 D I*, ff. 9-14.
ff. 49-67: formerly Royal MS 13 D I*, ff. 15-33.
ff. 67-80: formerly Royal MS 13 D I*, ff. 67-80.
Four of the Psalter leaves used as flyleaves in Cotton manuscripts also were bound together in Royal 13 D I * at this time:
f. 2 formerly was Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 286.
f. 15 formerly was Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 2.
f. 16 formerly was Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 1.
f. 18 formerly was Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 1.
In 1913 other leaves formerly used as flyleaves in Cotton manuscripts were added to the volume, together with a three-page list of the additional folios (ff. [iv-vi]). The reconstructed Psalter is still imperfect.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, f. 1
Cotton MS Caligula A X, f. 209 and f. 1
Cotton MS Claudius A VI, f. 1 and f. 294
Cotton MS Claudius B V, f. 137 and f. 1
Cotton MS Claudius D VI, f. 4, f. 221 and f. 1
Cotton MS Claudius E VIII, f. 1
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, last leaf and first leaf
Cotton MS Cleopatra D III, f. 1 and f. 203
Cotton MS Cleopatra D IX, f. 168, f. 169, f. 1 and f. 2
Cotton MS Faustina B II, final leaf and f. 1
Cotton MS Faustina B VI, beginning of vol. I
Cotton MS Julius A V, f. 1 and f. 2
Cotton MS Nero A VIII, last leaf and first leaf
Cotton MS Nero C V, f. 286 and f. 2
Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 1
Cotton MS Otho B XIV, f. 2 and f. 280
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f. 1
Cotton MS Tiberius A X, f. 190 and f. 1
Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 1 and f. 158
Cotton MS Tiberius C XIII, f. 257 and f. 1
Cotton MS Vespasian D IV, f. 172 and f. 1*
Cotton MS Vespasian D X, f. 144 and f. 145
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f. 1
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, f. 1 and f. 225
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, f. 1
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, f. 142 and f. 2
Royal MS 13 D I* - Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 109.
Eric G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), p. 86.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 221.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts 1285–1385, 2 vols (London: Miller, 1986), II, pp. 145-46 (no. 131).
James P. Carley and Colin G. C. Tite, ‘Sir Robert Cotton as Collector of Manuscripts and the Question of Dismemberment: British Library MSS. Royal 13 D. I and Cotton Otho D. VIII, ff. 174r-233v’, The Library, 6th Series, 14 (1992), 94-99.
Colin G. C. Tite, '"Lost or Stolen or Strayed": A Survey of Manuscripts formerly in the Cotton Library', in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: The British Library, 1997), pp. 262-306 (p. 290, fig. 6).
James P. Carley, ‘The Royal Library as a Source for Sir Robert Cotton’s Collection: A Preliminary List of Acquisitions’, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: The British Library, 1997), pp. 208-29 (pp. 218-19).
Michelle P. Brown, 'Sir Robert Cotton, Collector and Connoisseur?', in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 281-98 (pp. 292-93).
Lynda Dennison, 'Oxford, Exeter College MS 47: The Importance of Stylistic and Codicological Analysis in its Dating and Localization', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1998) pp. 41-59 (pp. 46-47, fig. 8).
Lynda Dennison, ‘The Dating and Localisation of the Hague Missal (Meermanno-Westreenianum MS 10 A 14) and the Connection between English and Flemish Miniature Painting in the Mid Fourteenth Century’, in ‘Als Ich Can’: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 505-36 (pp. 505-06, pls. 1A, 1D, 3A, 4A) [with additional bibliography].
Lucy Freeman Sandler, ‘Word Imagery in English Gothic Psalters: The Case of the Vienna Bohun manuscript (ÖNB, cod. 1826), in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images, ed. by F. O. Büttner (Belgium: Brepols, 2004), pp. 387-95 (p. 390 n. 13).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 109: 'PSALTER, in Latin, with Canticles, Te Deum (f. 39 b), Athanasian Creed (f. 41 b), and Litany (f. 43). The Psalter is very imperfect; it begins (f. 5) with Ps. xxvi and breaks off at PS. xxx. 24 (f. 8 b), but is then complete from PS. cxi. 2 onwards, except for the loss of a leaf (Ps. cxviii. 58-79) after f. 14. Four additional leaves from the same Psalter were found in Cotton MSS. Nero C. v and Nero D. i, and have been inserted at the beginning; they contain Ps. ix. 9-xi. 3, xxxvi. 13- 34, li. 11-liv. 4, xxxvii. 16-xxxviii. 9. The Litany includes SS. Alban, Oswald, Edmund, Edward, Thomas, Kenelm, martyrs; Cuthbert, Wilfrid, Dunstan, confessors; Hilda, virgin. A Northern origin is suggested by the high place given to Cuthbert (next to Gregory and Augustine) and by the fact that Hilda is the only English female saint.
Vellum; ff. 46. 141/2 in. x 91/2 in. Middle of XIV cent. Gatherings (when complete) of 8 leaves, with catchwords. In a good English liturgical hand. On ff. 3, 4 and 5 are large illuminated initials, enclosing miniatures (David and the Fool, David with his finger on his lips, and the Nativity) on patterned gold or checkered grounds, with frame-borders surrounding the text and enclosing figures of saints, &c., mostly on grounds of patterned gold. Initials in gold and colours, with partial borders, throughout. Formerly bound up between artt. 1 and 2 of 13 D. I.'
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
Cotton MS Caligula A X
Cotton MS Claudius A VI
Cotton MS Claudius B V
Cotton MS Claudius D VI
Cotton MS Claudius E VIII
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I
Cotton MS Cleopatra D III
Cotton MS Cleopatra D IX
Cotton MS Faustina B II
Cotton MS Faustina B VI
Cotton MS Julius A V
Cotton MS Nero A VIII
Cotton MS Nero C V
Cotton MS Nero D I
Cotton MS Otho B XIV
Cotton MS Tiberius A III
Cotton MS Tiberius A X
Cotton MS Tiberius C II
Cotton MS Tiberius C XIII
Cotton MS Vespasian D IV
Cotton MS Vespasian D X
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
Cotton MS Vitellius C III