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Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003419927
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062807526.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064376740.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2
- Title:
- A collection of hagiographical texts
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript is the second volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV and is made of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-157) continues the collection of hagiographical texts of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. The second part (ff. 158-166) contains De Abbatibus (On the Abbots) by Æthelwulf (fl. 9th century) and three short patristic texts.
Contents:
f. 1r: Vita S. Marie Magdalene (Life of St Mary Magdalene), continued from Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1.
ff. 1r-6v: Vita S. Audoeni (The Life of St Auduin).
ff. 6v-9r: Gennadius of Marseilles (fl. late 5th century), Vita S. Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome).
ff. 9r-10r: Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita S Hieronymi.
ff. 10r-13r: Vita S. Leonardi (The Life of St Leonard).
ff. 13r-24v: Pseudo-Aurelianus, Vita S. Martialis (The Life of St Martial).
ff. 24v-27v: Pseudo-Deodatus, Vita S. Taurini (The Life of St Taurinus).
f. 27v: Passio S. Eusebii (The Passion of St Eusebius).
ff. 27v-31r: Vita S. Philiberti (The Life of St Philibert).
ff. 31r-33r: Vita S. Petri (The Life of St Peter).
ff. 33r-33v: De Imagine Salvatoris (On the Figure of the Saviour).
ff. 33v-37r: Passio S. Apollinaris (The Passion of St Apollinaris).
ff. 37r-40v: Passio S. Pantaleonis (The Passion of St Pantaleon).
ff. 40v-44v: Passio S. Oswaldi (The Passion of St Oswald).
ff. 44v-50r: Passio S. Adriani (The Passion of St Adrian).
ff. 50r-54v: Passio Sanctorum Eugenie, Proti et Iacincti (The Passion of St Eugenia, Protus and Iacentus).
ff. 54v-105v: John the Deacon of Rome (b. 940, d. 1009), Vita S. Gregorii Magni (The Life of St Gregory the Great).
ff. 105v-111r: Vita S. Birini (The Life of St Birinus).
ff. 111r-112r: Vita S. Swithuni (The Life of St Swithun).
ff. 112r-121v: Miracula S. Swithuni (The Miracles of St Swithun).
ff. 121v-130v: Wulfstan of Winchester (fl. 1000), Vita S. Æthelwoldi (The life of St Aethelwold).
ff. 130v-145r: Osbern of Canterbury (b. c. 1050, d. c. 1090), Vita S. Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan).
ff. 145r-153r: Osbern of Canterbury, Miracula S. Dunstani (Miracles of St Dunstan).
ff. 153r-154r: Miracula S. Laurentii (Miracles of St Lawrence).
ff. 154r-157r: Continuation of Miracula S. Laurentii.
f. 157v: Medieval memoranda.
ff. 158r-166v: Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus.
f. 166r: Anonymous unidentified text, entitled: ‘Hieronimus Dicit de Situ Babylonis’ (Jerome Says about the Location of Babylon), beginning: 'Babylonem fuisse potentissimam’.
ff. 166v: Anonymous unidentified text, entitled: ‘Orosius Autem hoc Modo Refert de Eadem Ciuitate’ (Orosius Writes About the Same City Thus), beginning: 'Namque Babylonem Anebroth gigante fundatum'.
ff. 166v: Anonymous unidentified text, entitled: ‘Epitaphium Egregii Doctoris Bede’ (The Epitaph of the Great Learned Bede), beginning: ‘Monachus arte vigens, etate vir Anglicus ortu'.
[f. 88v is blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157; Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 158-166.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003419927 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2 : A collection of hagiographical texts - Contains:
- Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157 : A collection of hagiographical texts
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 158-166 : Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus
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- 032-001101582[1386]/040-003419927
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- Record Type (Level):
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064376740.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410 x 300 mm (text space: 290/310 x 170/195 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 166 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Protogothic (ff. 1r-154r); Gothic (ff. 154r-157r); Caroline minuscule (ff. 158r-166r).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Stamped with the Cotton arms (‘PLUT. XVIII. G.’)
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), pp. 110-11); his arms (upper 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 Press, 1997), p. 25.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957),
Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964),
Ker, N. R., 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 Press, 2003), pp. 612-13, 625-26, 641-42, 644-46, 747.
Levison, Wilhelm, ‘Conspectus Codicum Hagiographicorum’, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum, 7 (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.