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Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003352908
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100036586031.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057805931.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1
- Title:
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Painted miniatures probably from a Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
These leaves were formerly part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII, foliated: ff. 3r-10v.; they were removed in 1931 and are now stored separately as Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1.
The eight leaves originally probably formed part of a prefatory cycle in a Psalter were originally bound as a preface to a 10th-century manuscript of the Heliand poem, Cotton MS Caligula A VII.
These leaves are eight painted miniatures of scenes from the infancy of Christ: the Annunciation (f. 3r); the Visitation (f. 4v); the Nativity (f. 5r); the Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 6v); the Massacre of the Innocents (f. 7r); the Presentation in the Temple (f. 8v), the Adoration of Magi (f. 9r) and the Baptism of Christ (f. 10v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003352908 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1 : Painted miniatures probably from a Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1374]/040-003352908
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment leaves
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057805931.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 310 mm (miniatures 230 × 155 mm); mount of f. 3 320 x 230 mm.
Binding: Mounted individually and boxed.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Northern France or Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of St Amand at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux: the style is similar to manuscripts from this abbey (see Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts (1996), II, no. 125).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: number 26 in a list of his books (now Harley MS 6018).
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.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Caligula A VII
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1997), no. 44.
Brown, Michelle P., ‘Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur?’, in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 1998), p. 292.
Cahn, Walter, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Miller, 1996), II, no. 125; I, pls. 296-99, (with additional bibliography).
Doyle, Kathleen and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), p. 18.
The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970, ed. by Konrad Hoffmann (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), no. 284 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Gold, British Library, London, 20 May 2022 - 2 October 2022
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.