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Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 112r–165v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102197
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000106
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 112r–165v
- Title:
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Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain three main texts, apparently copied together in the mid-11th century:
ff. 112r-114v: Menologium;
ff. 115r-v: Maxims II (115r–v);
ff. 115v-164r: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text, 60 BC–AD 1066;
f. 164r: additional text added in the 2nd half of the 12th century.
f. 165r-v: medieval endleaf.
Decoration: large initial in black with eagle, interlace, and foliate details (f. 112r); large initial in black with foliate and interlace details (f. 115v); initials in red and black capitals, rubrics in red, and year numbers in red throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102195
041-001102197 - 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 112r–165v : Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0445]/040-001102195[0002]/041-001102197
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_I_ (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Abingdon): like the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the C-text has been associated with Abingdon because Abingdon is mentioned in the entry for 977; however, this evidence is circumstantial.
Provenance:
Lines added in late 11th or early 12th century (f. 164r).
Robert Recorde (b. c.1512, d. 1558), mathematician: copied in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 138.
Robert Talbot (b. c. 1505, d. 1558), antiquary: inscribed in his hand (f. 3r, etc); loaned to John Leland.
John Leland (b. c.1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary: borrowed; copied in his Collectanea, Cotton Julius C VI, f. 99v.
Laurence Nowell (b. 1530, d. c.1570), antiquary: copied extracts in Add MS 43704, ff. 94r-107v.
- Publications:
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Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 6 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942) [includes edition of Menologium and Maxims II].
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. 370.2.
Karasawa, Kazutomo, ‘A note on the Old English poem Menologium 3b on þy eahteoðan dæg’, Notes and Queries, 252, New Series, 54 (2007), 211–15.
O’Brien O’Keeffe, Katherine, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, 5, MS C (Cambridge, 2001).
O’Brien O’Keeffe, Katherine, ‘Reading the C-text: the after-lives of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. i’, in Phillip Pulsiano & Elaine M. Treharne (eds.), Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage (Aldershot, 1998), pp. 137–60.
Stokes, Peter A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), p. 136.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)