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Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144
- Record Id:
- 041-001101597
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000069
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060767893.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144
- Title:
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Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents (see Walbers, 'Numbers and Measurement' (2012), table II.10) :
ff. 136r–137r: Fragment of a metrical prayer;' beginning, 'Æla drihten leof. æla dema god' (Dobbie, Minor Poems (1942), p. 94);
ff. 137v–140r: Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus;
f. 140v: Notes on the names of the two thieves at the Crucifixion, the measurements of Noah's Ark, Solomon's Temple and St Peter's, the dimensions of the world and the number of bones and veins in the body;
ff. 141r–144v: An Old English translation of excerpts from the Distichs of Cato and other apothegms or short maxims.
Decoration: Initials in red, blue, yellow and green. Paraphs and run-over markers in red or brown with foliate decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101594
041-001101597 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius A II : Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144 : Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0002]/040-001101594[0003]/041-001101597
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of a parchment codes, 9 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_A_II (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician, the three components were acquired separately and bound together while in his library: listed as unbound when loaned by him to Henry Spelman in c.1615 (London, British Library, Harley 6018, fol. 159r). The collection was augmented by Sir Robert's son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet: in the catalogue dated before 1654, British Library, Additional MS 36682a, f. 14 (see Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library, pp. 49, 93).
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet and grandson of Sir Robert Cotton 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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Bibliography for Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis etc:
Cox, R. S., 'The Old English Dicts of Cato', Anglia, 30 (1972), 1-42, (pp. 4, 31).
Cross, James E., & Thomas D. Hill, eds., The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus (Toronto, 1982), pp. 15–16.
Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: a collective edition, 6 (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1942), pp. 94-96.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 159.
Keefer, Sarah L., 'Respect for the Book: A Consideration of Form, Content and Context in Two Vernacular Poems', in New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse, ed. by Sarah L. Keeter and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (New York: D.S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 21-44 (pp. 36, 42-43).
Lapidge, Michael, Anglo-Latin Literature, 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), p. 461, n. 28.
Napier, A. S., 'Altenglische Kleinigkeiten', Anglia, 11 (1889), 1-10 (pp. 5-6).
Treharne, Elaine M., 'The Form and Function of the Twelfth-Century Old English Dicts of Cato', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 10.24 (2003), 465-85, (p. 465).
Walbers, Birte, 'Number and Measurement in Anglo-Saxon Christian Culture: Editions and Studies of Numerical Notes in eight Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, c. 800-c.1150', (unpublished doctoral thesis, Univeristy of York, 2012), online at http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2912/1/thesis.pdf [accessed 11.01.16].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)