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Cotton Roll XIII 4
- Record Id:
- 040-004061044
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135533010.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172844746.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Roll XIII 4
- Title:
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Pontifical Roll
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIII 4. Order as Cotton Charter XIII.4.
Contents: Pontifical offices and blessings: the functions performed by a bishop.
Face:
Membranes 1-3: Orders for performing a tonsure, the consecration of the paten and chalice, the blessing of corporals, sacred objects, the baptistry and the font.
Dorse:
Membranes 1d-3d: Orders for the blessing of clerical clothing including amices, albs, maniples, chasubles and cinctures, of altar linen, drinking cups, ships and other objects; some of the blessings are added in a later hand.
The upper section of membrane 1d is blank.
Decoration:
One large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red at the beginning of the first prayer (membrane 1). Initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red at the beginning of each office. Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red at the beginning of prayers. Squares with foliate decoration in red and blue to mark blessings. Rubrics and instructions in red. All decoration is on the face; the dorse is not decorated.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004061044 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Roll XIII 4 : Pontifical Roll - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0099]/040-004061044
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 2060 x 100 mm (written space: 70 mm wide).
Arrangement: 3 unfoliated parchment membranes joined together end-to-end, with an added small modern parchment membrane forming a wrapper.
Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive (on the dorse).
Binding: Stored within a cardboard and green leather cylinder stamped in gold lettering, Rot.Cott.XIII.4.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Part of the contents on the dorse are added in a cursive hand of the 14th century.
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 Charter XIII 4
- Publications:
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Brückmann, J., 'Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales', Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 438).
Frere, Walter Howard, Pontifical services: illustrated from miniatures of the XVth and XVIth centuries, with descriptive notes and a liturgical introduction, 4 vols (London: Longmans, 1901-1908), I (1901), no. 101.
Kay, Richard, Pontificalia: A Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals (Kansas: University of Kansas, 2007), online edition at hdl.handle.net/1808/4406. [accessed 4.1.2022].
Kelly, Thomas Forrest, The Exultet in southern Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 22-26.
Rasmussen, Niels Krogh, Les pontificaux du haut Moyen Âge: genèse du livre de l'évêque (Leuven: Spicilegium sacrum Lovaniense, 1998) p. 465, n. 52.
Reynolds, Roger E., 'The Liturgy of Clerical Ordination in Early Medieval Art', Gesta, 22.1 (1983), 27-38 (p. 38, n. 71).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)