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Cotton Roll XIII 17
- Record Id:
- 040-003437302
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100074534163.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518828.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Roll XIII 17
- Title:
- Genealogical Roll Chronicle to Edward I with a continuation to Edward III
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIII 17. Order as Cotton Roll XIII 17.
Contents:
A genealogical chronicle with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French dated to the reign of Edward I (1272-1307).
Face:
Membranes 1-4: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Alfred (r. 871-899) to Edward I (r. 1272-1307), with the commentary beginning in the reign of Aethelred I (r. 866-871). The commentary text is considerably abbreviated by comparison to the other Anglo-Norman French roll commentaries and contains variants that suggest it may be an independent translation from the Latin.
Membrane 5: A continuation of the diagram and commentary from Edward II to Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1330, d.1376).
The dorse of the role is blank (dorse abbreviated as d).
Decoration: A genealogical diagram with roundels in red and blue or red and brown and lines in red. Initials and paraphs in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-003437302 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Roll XIII 17 : Genealogical Roll Chronicle to Edward I with a continuation to Edward III - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0097]/040-003437302
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161518828.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1307
- End Date:
- 1327
- Date Range:
- 1307-1327
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3060 mm x 220/40 mm.
Arrangement: 5 unfoliated parchment membranes joined together end-to-end, with an added modern parchment membrane forming a wrapper.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Perhaps belonged to Gilbert de Clare, Duke of Gloucester (1264-1295) or his circle, as he is prominent in the commentary on the reign of Henry III, and his wife, Jeanne d'Acre, daughter of Edward I, has a larger medallion than her siblings on membrane 4, lower left (see Laborderie, Ligne des reis (2002), p. 223).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. 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 Ch XIII 17
- Information About Copies:
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v
- Publications:
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Margaret Howell, 'The Children of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence', Thirteenth Century England IV: Proceedings of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference (1991), 57-72 (p. 59, n. 13).
Dean, Ruth and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 6.
Laborderie, Olivier de, 'Ligne de reis: Culture historique, représentation du pouvoir royal et construction de la mémoire nationale en Angleterre a travers les généalogies royales en rouleau du milieu du XIIIe siècle au début du XVe siècle' (unpublished PhD thesis, Paris EHESS, 2002), pp. 1390-91, 1508 passim.
Laborderie, Olivier de, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL9, p. 502 passim.
Spence, John, Reimagining history in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles (York: York Medieval Press, 2013), pp. 13, 174.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)