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Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 3–86
- Record Id:
- 041-001102207
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00010d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 3–86
- Title:
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D-text (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain the D-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle covering the years 60 BC–AD 261, 409–633, 693–1079, 1080 (recte 1130?). The majority of the text was copied between the middle of the 11th century and the first half of the 12th century. 9 supply leaves were added in the sixteenth century, in the hand of John Jocelyn, and appear to copy the contents of medieval folios which have now been lost (ff. 10r–18v).
Decoration: large initials in red (ff. 3r, 49v); smaller initials in red and blue (ff. 3v-36v); smaller initials in red only (ff. 56v-66r, 74r-86r); initials in black (ff. 68r, 74r, 86v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102206
041-001102207 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough.
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, ff 3–86 : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D-text (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0448]/040-001102206[0001]/041-001102207
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_IV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century-2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Worcester or York) (see Whitelock, Peterborough Chronicle (1954), pp. 23-29).
Provenance:
Worcester Cathedral Priory by 1565, according to John Joscelyn in Cotton MS Nero C III, f. 208r (see Roberts, Guide (2005), p. 98).
John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: annotated throughout and added supply leaves (ff. 10r-18v) (see Cotton's note in Harley MS 6018, f. 156r).
- Publications:
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Brackmann, Rebecca, The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2012), p. 97.
Bredehoft, Thomas, 'The Boundaries between Verse and Prose in Old English Literature' in Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context, ed. by Joyce Tally Lionarons (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2004), pp. 139-72 (pp. 156 n. 42, 157, 160-64, 168-69).
Cubbin, G. P., ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, 6, MS D (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1996) [includes edition].
Da Rold, Orietta and others (eds), The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, electronic book (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Tibe.B.iv.htm
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. 372.
Gransden, Antonia, Historical Writing in England c. 550 – c. 1307 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1974), pp. 24-34.
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 (p. 98 n.1).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 192.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society,1964), p. 207.
Plummer, Charles and John Earle (eds), Two of the Saxon Chronicles, Parallel, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1892 and 1899).
Roberts, Jane, Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), no. 21.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 555.
Whitelock, Dorothy Whitelock, Susie Tucker, and D.C. Douglas (eds), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A revised translation (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961).
Whitelock, Dorothy, The Peterborough Chronicle, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 4 (Copenhagen: 1954), pp. 28-29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)