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Cotton Roll XIV 4
- Record Id:
- 040-003441234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075618708.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165161907.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Roll XIV 4
- Title:
- Genealogical roll chronicle (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is also referred to as Cotton Galba Charter XIV 4 or Cotton Charter XIV 4. Order as Cotton Roll XIV 4.
Contents:
A fragment consisting of two membranes from a genealogical roll chronicle. On the face is the genealogy begins at Aethelred II (r. 978-1016) and his two wives, Elfleda and Emma of Normandy, with their English royal descendants to Edward I (r. 1272-1307) on the left and Scottish royal descendants to Margaret of Norway and John Baliol on the right. The dorse of the roll is blank.
Originally this fragment was part of a larger roll, the beginning or which is now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley Rolls 3, with the genealogy from Antiquity to the early Anglo-Saxon kings (see Monroe, 'Two medieval genealogical roll-chronicles', 1981). Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole Rolls 50 is similar in format and content to the combined Bodley Rolls 3 and Cotton Roll XIV 4, and also dates to the end of the reign of Edward I (r. 1272-1307).
Decoration: Part of a genealogical diagram consisting of 72 roundels in red, with outline drawings in brown of seated or standing figures with blue robes, some with crowns in gold. 6 added coats of arms in red and white. Initials in red with pen-flourishing in brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-003441234 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Roll XIV 4 : Genealogical roll chronicle (fragment) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0095]/040-003441234
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 membranes from a roll
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1295
- End Date:
- 1305
- Date Range:
- c. 1300
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 700 x 520 mm.
Format: 2 parchment membranes joined together, formerly part of a roll.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: York, England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, probably copied there: an ownership inscription in a hand of c.1300 in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley Rolls 3, which was formerly part of the same roll (see Sandler, Gothic, 1986).
Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), antiquarian of Yorkshire, his autograph inscription, 'Will[el]m[us] Co[n]questor' has been added in the portrait medallion of William the Conqueror (membrane 2). An added series of coats of arms also found in Bodley Rolls 3, were probably added while the two parts were still joined and in his possession, according to Monroe, 'Two medieval genealogical roll-chronicles' (1981).
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 External References:
- Cotton Galba Charter XIV.4
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton Ch XIV 4
- Publications:
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Davies, R.R., The first English empire: power and identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 42, n. 35 [referred to as Cotton Galba Charter XIV.4].
Holladay, Joan A., 'Women in English Royal Genealogies of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries', in The four modes of seeing: approaches to medieval imagery in honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness, ed. by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Ellen M. Shortell. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 348-64 (pp. 362-63).
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. 1508, passim.
Laborderie, Olivier de, Histoire, me´moire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), p.p 502-03, passim [as O4: Bodley Roll 3].
Monroe, W. H.,'Two Medieval Genealogical Roll-Chronicles in the Bodleian Library', Bodleian Library Record, 10 (1981), 115-21 [referred to as Cotton Charter XIV.4].
Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols (1986), I, ill. 35, 36, II, nos 16a, 16b [referred to here as Cotton Galba Charter XIV.4].
Spence, John, Reimagining history in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles (York: York Medieval Press, 2013).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)