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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
- Record Id:
- 041-001102152
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0000e6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059094484.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
- Title:
- Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-century annotations on f. 117r associate the manuscript or parts of the manuscript with Ælfric Bata (fl. c. 1010), monk, author and schoolmaster of Christ Church Canterbury. The folios seem to have been rearranged by Robert Cotton in the early modern period: a medieval contents page and a painted frontispiece now appear as f. 117. (For a possible reconstruction of the original order of the texts and the collation, see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), pp. 272-301).
Contents:
ff. 3r–27v: Regularis Concordia in Latin with Old English glosses.
ff. 27v–43r: Collection of prognostics, including note on the growth of a fetus (ff. 40v-41r).
ff. 43r-43v: Dialogue answers about Old Testament figures.
ff. 43r-43v: Note on the six ages of the world in Latin.
f. 44r: Notes on fasting and Mary and an extract of a penitential in Latin and Old English.
ff. 44r–56v: Confessional prayers and ordos in Old English and Latin, including an extract from Alfred's (r. 871-899) Soliloquia (ff. 50v-51v).
ff. 57r–60v: Prayers and devotions in Latin with Old English directions.
ff. 60v–64v: Ælfric (b. 955, d. 1010), Colloquy.
ff. 65r–65v: Prognostics in Latin.
ff. 65v–73r: Ælfric, De temporibus anni.
ff. 73r-73v: Old English notes on measurements, including those of Noah's Ark and Solomon's temple.
ff. 73v–77v: Life of St Margaret in Old English.
ff. 77v–83r: Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday in Old English.
ff. 83r–107v: Various texts on spiritual themes in Old English, including a collection of homilies/homiletic elements (ff. 88v–93v), confessional directives, an examination for a bishop (ff. 93v-94v), a monastic sign language guide (ff. 97r-101v), a lapidary (ff. 101v-102r), an Old English charm against cattle theft (f. 106r), Ælfric's second letter to Archbishop Wulfstan and extracts from Old English translations of the Rule of St Benedict, Isidore's (b. c. 560, d. 636) Synonyma, and Alcuin's (b. c. 735, d. 804) De virtutibus et vitiis.
f. 107v-115r: Various devotions in Latin.
f. 116v: Additions in hands from the last quarter of the 11th century to the 2nd half of the 12th century.
f. 117r: A contents page in a mid-12th-century hand.
f. 117v: A miniature of monks presenting a copy of the Rule of St Benedict to St Benedict.
ff. 118r–163v: Rule of St Benedict in Latin with Old English glosses.
ff. 163v-164r: Text attributed to St Fulgentius, incip 'Dicebat vero sanctus fulgentius. Iuxta regula patrum...'
ff. 164r-168v: Memoriale Qualiter.
ff. 168v-169r: De festivitatibus anni.
ff. 169r–173r: Capitula of the Council of Aachen, 818 (text incorrectly states 817).
Decoration:
Miniature of a king surrounded by ecclesiastics, probably depicting Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester (d. 984), King Edgar (d. 975), and Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 988) (f. 2v), above a monk; miniature of St Benedict being presented with a text (f. 117v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102150
041-001102152 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A III : Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium;…
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173 : Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0432]/040-001102150[0002]/041-001102152
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1170
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 300 × 240 mm.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops, p. 46). Possibly compiled by, owned by or otherwise associated with Ælfric Bata (fl. c. 1010), Benedictine monk, author and schoolmaster of Christ Church, Canterbury, whose name is inscribed in f. 117r in a late 11th- or early 12th-century hand (see Gneuss, 'Origin and Provenance', p. 23).
? Eadwig Basan (fl. 1012-1023): inscribed with the name 'Eadwi' in a late-11th century hand (f. 164r); Christ Church obituary lists from the 13th century list only one 'Edwius' (Cotton Nero C IX, ff. 19-21; see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), pp. 32-33).
Henry Eastry (d. 1331), prior of Christ Church Canterbury: possibly item 296 in the catalogue compiled for him (see James, Ancient Libraries (1903), no. 296).
- Publications:
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Cohen, Adam S., 'King Edgar Leaping and Dancing Before the Lord', in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. by Samantha Zacher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), pp. 219-236 (pp. 235-236).
Cooper, Tracey-Anne, Monk-Bishops and the English Benedictine Reform Movement: Reading London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii in Its Manuscript Context (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015).
Cross, J. E., ‘De festiuitatibus anni and Ansegisus, Capitularium Collectio (827) in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts’, Liverpool Classical Monthly, 17 (1992), 119–21.
Aelfric's Colloquy, ed. by G.N. Garmonsway (London: Methuen, 1939); 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1947); rev. edn ([Exeter]: University of Exeter, 1978) [includes edition and translation based on Cotton MS Tiberius A iii].
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 363.
Gneuss, Helmut, ‘Origin and provenance of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: The case of Cotton Tiberius A.III’, in Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. by P. R. Robinson and Rikvah Zim (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997), pp. 13–48.
James, M. R., Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), no. 296.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 186.
Ker, N. R., ed., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
Kornexl, Lucia (ed.), Die Regularis Concordia und ihre altenglische Interlinearversion: mit Einleitung und Kommentar (Munich: W. Fink, 1993) [includes edition].
Liuzza, Roy Michael, ‘Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001), 181-230 (pp. 216–18).
Pulsiano, Phillip and Joseph McGowan, ‘Four unedited prayers in London, British Library Cotton Tiberius A.iii’, Mediaeval Studies, 56 (1994), 189–216.
Rankin, Susan, ‘A Fleury model for singing at Winchester’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 178-187 (p. 178 n. 3).
Symons, T. (ed. and trans.), The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation (London, 1953) [includes edition and translation].
Szarmach, Paul E., ‘Alfred’s Soliloquies in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii (art. 9g, fols. 50v–51v)’, in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), II, pp. 153–79.
Szarmach, Paul E., ‘Cotton Tiberius A. iii, Arts. 26 and 27’, in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, ed. by Michael Korhammer (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 29–42.
Szarmach, Paul E., ‘A return to Cotton Tiberius A. III, art. 24, and Isidore’s Synonyma’, in Text and Gloss: Studies in Insular Learning and Literature presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer, ed. by Helen Conrad O’Briain and others (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. 166–81.
Temple, Elzbieta, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 100.
Wilcox, Jonathan, ‘The Wolf at work: uncovering Wulfstan’s compositional method’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 141-153 (p. 150).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alcuin of York, c 735-804,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115788089,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523
Isidore of Seville, Saint, Bishop of Seville, c 560-636,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122756296,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/803890
Ælfric of Eynsham, Abbot of Eynsham, c 955-c 1010,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118377445,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/262214286 - Subjects:
- Law
Liturgy
Science
Theology - Places:
- Canterbury, England
- Related Material:
- Folios 117–173 originally came before ff. 2–116 in this manuscripts: For a possible reconstruction of the original order of the texts and the collation, see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), pp. 19-27, 272-301.