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Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 2–43
- Record Id:
- 041-001101630
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000082
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060794135.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 2–43
- Title:
- Vita sancti Oswini regis; Inventio sancti Oswini regis; Miracula sancti Oswini regis
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain hagiography related to Saint Oswine (the last independent ruler of the kingdom of Deira), possibly copied at Tynemouth Priory in the late 12th or early 13th century:
ff. 2r-9r: Vita sancti Oswini regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6382, imperfect).
ff. 10r-14r: Inventio sancti Oswini regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6383).
ff. 14v–43r: Miracula sancti Oswini regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6384).
Decoration: initials in red or red and green with penwork decoration; rubrics in red; small initials in green (f. 2v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101629
041-001101630 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius A X : Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 2–43 : Vita sancti Oswini regis; Inventio sancti Oswini regis; Miracula sancti Oswini regis - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0010]/040-001101629[0001]/041-001101630
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Julius A X
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_A_X (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Tynemouth Priory: the text suggests its author was based at Tynemouth and perhaps also copied there (see Raine, Miscellanea (1838), p. vii).
Provenance:
Early modern inscription (f. 43r).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992).
Dockray-Miller, Mary, The Books and Life of Judith of Flanders (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015),pp. 26, 107-10
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books 2nd edn. (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 191.
Lawrence, Anne, 'The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts', in Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason and others (Boydell: Woodbridge, 1994, repr 1998), pp. 451-71(p. 457).
Raine, James (ed.), Miscellanea Biographica. Oswinus rex Northumbriae. Cuthbertus, Episcopus Lindisfarnensis. Eata, Episcopus Haugustaldensis ([London], 1838), pp. vii-viii, 1-59 [includes edition of the Vita S Oswini].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)