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Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003419923
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062806133.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064364589.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
- Title:
- A collection of hagiographical texts
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2.
Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester).
ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil).
ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806, d. 882), Vita S. Remigii (The Life of St Remigius).
ff. 33v-36r: Venantius Fortunatus (d. c. 600), Vita S. Hilarii (The Life of St Hilary).
ff. 36r-37r: Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), Vita S. Felicis (The Life of St Felix).
ff. 37r-39v: Alcuin (b. c. 735, d. 804), Vita S. Vedasti (The Life of St Vedast).
ff. 39v-42v: Baudemund (fl. 7th century), Vita S. Amandi (The Life of St Amand).
ff. 42v-44r: Venantius Fortunatus, Vita S. Albini (The Life of St Alban).
ff. 44v-48v: Vita S. Walarici (The Life of St Walaric).
ff. 48v-54r: Paulinus of Nola, Vita S. Ambrosii (The Life of Saint Ambrose).
ff. 54r-59r: Vita S. Marie Egyptiace (The Life of St Mary the Egyptian).
ff. 59r-65v: Venantius Fortunatus, Vita S. Germani (The Life of St Germain).
ff. 65v-69v: Vita S. Medardi (The Life of St Medard).
ff. 69v-80v: Constantius of Lyon (fl. 460), Vita S. Germani (The Life of St Germain).
ff. 80v-84v: Vita S. Augustini (The Life of St Augustin).
ff. 84v-87r: Vita S. Egidii Abbatis (The Life of St Egidius).
f. 88r: Gennadius (fl. 5th century), the account of Sulpicius Severus from De Viris Inlustribus (About Illustrious Men).
ff. 88r-93v: Sulpicius Severus (c. 363, d. c. 420), Vita S Martini (The Life of St Martin).
ff. 93v-94r: Sulpicius Severus, Epistola ad Eusebium Presbyterum (The Letter to Eusebius the Priest).
ff. 94r-95r: Sulpicius Severus, Epistola ad Aurelium Diaconem (The Letter to Aurelius the Deacon).
ff. 95r-95v: Sulpicius Severus, Epistola ad Bassulam (The Letter to Bassula).
ff. 95v-96v: Gregory of Tours (b. 538/539, d. 594), Descriptiones Revelationum Obitus et Translationis S. Martini Episcopi (The Descriptions of the Revelations of the Death and Translation of St Martin).
ff. 96v-109v: Sulpicius Severus, Dialogi (Dialogues).
ff. 109v-110v: Alcuin, Collectaneum de Vita et Virtutibus S. Martini (Collected Works About the Life and Virtues of St Martin).
ff. 110v-111r: Gregory of Tours, Vita S. Brictii Episcopi (The Life of St Brice).
ff. 111r-115v: Alcuin, Vita S. Richardi (The Life of St Richard).
ff. 116r-123r: Gregory of Tours, Miracula S. Martini (The Miracles of St Martin).
ff. 123r-124v: Vita S. Aniani (The Life of St Anianus).
ff. 125r-132r: Jonas of Bobbio (fl. 7th century), Vita S. Columbani (The Life of St Columbanus).
ff. 132v-137r: John the Deacon of Naples (fl. 9th century), Vita S. Nicholai (The Life of St Nicholas).
ff. 137r-140v: Miracula S. Nicholai (The Miracles of St Nicholas).
ff. 140v-143r: Vita S. Leonardi (The Life of St Leonard).
ff. 143r-148r: Adrevald of Fleury (d. c. 879), Translatio S. Benedicti (The Translation of St Benedict).
ff. 148r-151v: Vita S. Marie Magdalene (The Life of St Mary Magdalene), continued in Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2.
Decoration:
Numerous large arabesque initials in red, green, blue, purple or ochre, some on a blue background, ornamented with yellow and green; display capitals in red and blue; numerous small initials in red; red rubrics and highlights, occasional yellow and light blue highlights.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003419923 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1 : A collection of hagiographical texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1385]/040-003419923
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064364589.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1225
- Date Range:
- 1125-1225
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: damaged by fire.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410 x 300 mm (text space: 290/310-170/195 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 151 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 flyleaves at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Stamped with the Cotton arms (‘PLUT. XVIII. G.’).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine Cathedral Priory of St Saviour, St Peter, and St Paul, Bath: the note: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ to which another medieval hand added ‘quod Willelmus Gylys’ (f. 115v); a certain William Gilys/Gylys is attested at Bath Cathedral around 1468/1499, see Greatrex, Bibliographical Register (1997), p. 25.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 110-11); his bookplate (front outside cover).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum, ed. by Joseph Planta (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 39.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England(c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 407.
Greatrex, Joan, Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c. 1066 to 1540 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), p. 25.
Ker, Neil Ripley, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 262 (no. 396).
Ker, Neil Ripley, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 200.
Ker, Neil Ripley, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969-2002), IV (1992), pp. 578-79.
Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St Æthelwold, ed. and trans. by Michael Lapidge and Michael Winterbottom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. clxxvii-clxxix, clxxxiii-clxxxvii.
Lapidge, Michael, The Cult of St Swithun (Oxford, Clarendon: 2003), pp. 612-13, 625-26, 641-42, 644-46, 747.
Levison, Wilhelm, ‘Conspectus Codicum Hagiographicorum’, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum, VII (Hanover: Hahn, 1920), pp. 529-706 (pp. 545, 601).
Memorials of Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. by William Stubbs, Rolls Series, 63 (London: Longman, 1874), p. xliv.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 110-11.
Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints’ Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi, ed. and trans. by Rosalind Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. lvii. lxxviii-lxxix.
Townsend, David, ‘An Eleventh-Century Life of Birinus of Wessex’, Analecta Bollandiana, 107 (1989), 129-59 (p. 133).
- 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.