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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102161
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0000ec
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060900466.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v
- Title:
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received the pallia
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 60 BC–AD 977. A note on the True Cross in Latin and a list of archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received their pallia were added to these folios in last quarter of the 11th century or the 1st quarter of the 12th century (f. 35r–v). The B-text was originally written with a regnal list extending to the reign of Edward the Martyr. This is now detached and is part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f. 178.
Decoration: initial and display capitals in black (f. 1r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102160
041-001102161 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI : The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis…
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0435]/040-001102160[0001]/041-001102161
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_A_VI (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0977
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (Abingdon?): written by a single scribe. The reference to Abingdon in the entry for 977 in both the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the related C-text (Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff. 115v-164r) has led some scholars to attribute their production to Abingdon, although this evidence is circumstantial and doubted.
Provenance:
(?) Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: later inscriptions, annotations, and marks may have been added there (for example, f. 35r-v).
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury: owned, according to John Joscelyn (Cotton MS Nero C II, f. 208r).
John Twyne (d. 1581), master of the free grammar school at Canterbury: owned, according to John Joscelyn (Cotton MS Nero C II, f. 208r).
Laurence Nowell (1530–c.1570), antiquary: copied extracts (now Additional MS 43703, Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII).
John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: annotated, copied (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc 661).
- Publications:
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Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 364.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 188.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 43.
Stokes, Peter A. English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), p. 121.
Taylor, Simon, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, 4, MS B (Cambridge, 1983).
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 549.
David F. Johnson, ‘The transmission and reception of Alfredian “Apocrypha”’, 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. 98-107 (p. 98 n. 1).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)