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Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003377682
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100045400916.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165157882.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1
- Title:
- Matthew Paris, Map of Britain
- Scope & Content:
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This folio was removed from Cotton MS Claudius D VI, a manuscript including Matthew Paris's Abbreuiatio chronicorum. This is folio 12 of that manuscript, comprising the end of the genealogy of the kings of England (f. 12r) and a map of Britain (f. 12v), said to have been drawn by Matthew Paris himself (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1986), no. 93).
Contents:
f. 12r: Genealogy of English kings.
f. 12v: Map of Great Britain.
Decoration:
1 full-page map of Great Britain surrounded by turquoise water, with landmarks and place names in blue and red ink and rivers in dark blue and red (f. 12v). 2 small tinted roundels of kings in green, red and light yellow (f. 12r). Tinted vertical bands separating the two text columns (f. 12r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003377682 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1 : Matthew Paris, Map of Britain - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1380]/040-003377682
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165157882.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1255
- End Date:
- 1259
- Date Range:
- 1255-1259
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 335 × 245 mm.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house, unbound between two mount boards (taken out of the original manuscript on 7 February 1929; formerly bound with Cotton MS Julius D. vii, ff. 50–53).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (St Albans).
Provenance:
Benedictine Abbey of St Albans, c. 1255: the hand of Matthew Paris (d. 1259), monk, author and scribe (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1988), no. 93); and 14th century: inscription, 'hic est liber sci Albani' (f. 101 of Cotton MS Claudius D VI) and St Albans calendar (ff. 218r-219v of Cotton MS Claudius D VI).
Richard Hutton, early 16th century: inscribed with his name (f. 9v of Cotton MS Claudius D VI).
John Stowe? (b. 1525, d. 1605): references the manuscript in his Collectanea (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1988), no. 93).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: his signature (f. 6r of Cotton MS Claudius D VI).
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.
British Museum, 7 February 1929: this folio was removed from the original manuscript.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Claudius D VI
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see https://bl.uk/collection-items/matthew-paris-map-of-britain (accessed 2 December 2016).
- Publications:
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Breay, Claire and Julian Harrison, eds., Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (London: British Library, 2015), pp. 34-35.
Carley, James P., & 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’, The Library, 14 (1992), 94–99.
Connolly, Daniel K., The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2009), pp. 186-91, pl. X, figs. 31-33.
Givens, Jean A., Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 158-58, fig. 58.
Harvey, P. D. A., 'Matthew Paris's Maps of Britain', in Thirteenth Century England IV: Proceedings of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference, 1991, ed. by P. R. Cross and S. D. Lloyd (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992), 109-22, figs. 10.1 and 10.6.
Ker, Neil. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 166. Lewis, Suzanne. The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica majora, California Studies in the History of Art, 21 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 365-9, fig. 221.
Morgan, Nigel, Early Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1285, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London: Harvey Miller, 1986), part 1, no. 93 [with additional bibliography].
Planta, Joseph, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1802), pp. 196-97.
Tite, Colin G. C., ‘“Lost or Stolen or Strayed”: A Survey of Manuscripts Formerly in the Cotton Library’, in C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy (London, 1997), p. 290 and fig. 6.
- Exhibitions:
- British Library Treasures, (online), 27 February 2016-
Magna Carta, (online), 10 March 2015-
Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)