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Cotton MS Julius D VII/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003481354
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099848577.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141868082.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius D VII/1
- Title:
- Matthew Paris, Map of Britain
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a map of Britain by the English artist and chronicler Matthew Paris (b. c. 1200, d. 1259). Originally drawn on a single folio, it was folded and cut into four leaves and became ff. 50r-53v of Cotton MS Julius D VII, the only surviving copy of the collectanea of John of Wallingford (d. 1258), a Benedictine monk and infirmarer of the Abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire. Wallingford added place-names and notes in his own hand to the map and used the verso to write part of the text of his Chronicle.
The map was subsequently removed from Cotton MS Julius D VII and is now bound separately.
Other Matthew Paris maps of Britain housed in the British Library are Royal MS 14 C VII (f. 5v) and Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1 (f. 12v).
Contents:
f. 1r: Matthew Paris, Map of Britain, with additions by John of Wallingford;
f. 1v: John of Wallingford’s Chronicle.
Decoration:
1 full-page map of Britain surrounded by turquoise water, with drawings of landmarks in black ink, place-names in black and red ink, and rivers in dark blue (f. 1r). 1 circular diagram, outlined in blue and green ink (f. 1v). 1 half of a circular diagram, outlined in blue, red, and green ink (f. 1v). The other half of this diagram appears on f. 49v of Cotton MS Julius D VII.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-003481354 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius D VII/1 : Matthew Paris, Map of Britain - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1396]/040-003481354
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100141868082.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1245
- End Date:
- 1260
- Date Range:
- c. 1250-1260
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Condition: Outer edges damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: approximately 400 x 330 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (St Albans Abbey and Wymondham Priory).
Provenance:
Thomas Kyngesbury, monk of St Albans, 16th century;
John Conyngesby, 16th century: 'Constat Iohanni Conyngesby ex dono magistri Kyngesbury' (Cotton MS Julius D VII, f. 1r), 'J. Conyngesby' (f. 34r), 'J. Conyngesby' (f. 61r);
(?)Philip Howard, 13th earl of Arundel (d. 1595): 'my good Lorde of Arundell' (Cotton MS Julius D VII, f. 46r);
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: 'Ro. Cotton' (Cotton MS Julius D VII, f. 1v); 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus' (f. 10r); 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus' (f. 46r). Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet, who bequeathed the entire 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.
- Publications:
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Birkholz, Daniel, The King's Two Maps: Cartography & Culture in Thirteenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 97-98.
Connolly, Daniel K., The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys Through Space, Time and Liturgy (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009).
Crone, G. R., Early Maps of the British Isles A.D. 1000–A. D. 1579 (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1961), pp. 7, 14-15.
Four maps of Great Britain designed by Matthew Paris about A.D. 1250 (London: British Museum, 1928).
Harvey, P. D. A., 'Matthew Paris's maps of Britain', Thirteenth Century England, 4 (1992), 109–21.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 166.
Kimble, George H. T., Geography in the Middle Ages (London: Methuen & Co, 1938), pp. 186, 189.
Lewis, Suzanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Maiora (Aldershot: Gower in association with Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1987), pp. 364-72.
Mitchell, J. B . ‘The Matthew Paris Maps’, The Geographical Journal, 81: 1 (1933), 27-34.
Morgan, Nigel, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190–1285, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1987), I, no. 91.
Planta, Joseph, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 15–16.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 97–98.
Vaughan, Richard, Matthew Paris (Cambridge: University Press, 1958), pp. 235-50.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)