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Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v

Record Id:

041-001102196

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000105

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v

Title:

Old English Translation of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos

Scope & Content:

These folios contain a copy of the Old English version of Orosius' Historia adversus paganos, written in the early 11th century.

Decoration: large initials in green, followed by rubrics in red or oxidized red (ff. 3r, 18r, 19r, 42v, 63r, 84r, 97r); large initial with foliate details followed by rubric with display capitals (f. 7v); large initials, followed by a rubric where the letters alternated red and black (f. 15r); large initial followed by rubric where the lines alternated red and black (f. 28v); large initials in red throughout; smaller initials, rubrics, and highlights in red and oxidized red throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102195
041-001102196

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B I : Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text

Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v : Old English Translation of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0445]/040-001102195[0001]/041-001102196

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Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

English, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1049

Date Range:

1st half of the 11th century

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Custodial History:

Origin: England (? Winchester or the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Abingdon): written by approximately four scribes in the first half of the eleventh century. This manuscript has been associated with Abingdon and, more recently, with the circle in Winchester of Ælfsige of the New Minster, Winchester, based on its script (see Stokes, English Vernacular (2014), p. 84).

Provenance:

Later medieval additions and corrections throughout.

? Worcester: some annotations are similar to those of the Tremulous Hand (see Production and Use (2013), https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Tibe.B.i.htm).

John Leland (b. c.1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary: copied in his Collectanea.

Laurence Nowell (b. 1530, d. c.1570), antiquary: copied extracts in Add MS 43704.

John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: copied in Cotton MS Vitellius D VII.

Franciscus [Francis] Junius [Du Jon] (1591–1677), philologist and writer on art: copied in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 15.

Marshall, Thomas (b.1621, d. 1685), dean of Gloucester and philologist, collated with Add MS 47967.

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.

Publications:

Bately, Janet (ed.), The Old English Orosius, Early English Text Society, s.s. 6 (London: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. xxv [includes edition, collated as 'C'].

Batley, Janet and Anton Englert (eds), Ohthere's Voyages: A Late Ninth-Century Account of Voyages Along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and its Cultural Context (Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum, 2007).

Englert, Anton and Athena Trakadas (eds), Wulfstan's Voyage: The Baltic Sea Region in the Early Viking Age as Seen from Shipboard (Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum, 2009).

Gilles, Sealy, ‘Territorial interpolations in the Old English Orosius’, in Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages, ed. by Sylvia Tomasch and Sealy Gilles (Philadelphia, PA, 1998), pp. 79–96.

Johnson, David F., ‘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 (pp. 98, 102-7; figs 7.3-11).

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 191

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, 2014), no. 370.

Stokes, Peter A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), 19, 84-85, 136, 160.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)