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Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 28–58

Record Id:
041-001102330
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001101582
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000158
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100066409375.0x000003
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 28–58
Title:
Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu ending with an epitome of Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum; De VII Mirabilibus Mundi; Historia Brittonum (‘Gildasian’ recension, imperfect)
Scope & Content:

These folios contain various historical texts copied in the north of England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century.

Contents:

ff. 28r–43r: Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu (The Book about the First Arrival of the Saxons or Normans).

ff. 36r–43r: An epitome of Symeon of Durham (c. 1060-c. 1128), Historia Regum (The History of Kings), forming an ending for the Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu.

ff. 43v–44r: De VII Mirabilibus Mundi (About the Seven Wonders of the World).

ff. 44r–58v: Historia Brittonum (The History of Britons)(‘Gildasian’ recension, imperfect).

Decoration:

1 miniature depicting Woden surrounded by 5 ancestors of the dynasties of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (f. 29r). Initials in red and green (throughout). Initials in red and/or green with penwork decoration (ff. 44r, 44v).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-001101582
040-001102327
041-001102330
Is part of:
Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII : Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's…

 

Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 28–58 : Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu ending with an epitome of Symeon of Durham, Historia…
Hierarchy:
032-001101582[0496]/040-001102327[0003]/041-001102330
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1150
End Date:
1174
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:
Script: Protogothic.
Custodial History:

Origin: Northern England.

Provenance:

?Nicholas Brigham (d. 1558), administrator and antiquary.

John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563), bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian: annotated by him (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 114).

Publications:

D’Ardenne, S., ‘Un extrait peu connu de l’Historia Brittonum de Nennius (MS Liège 369C)’, in Mélanges offerts à Rita Lejeune, Professeur à l’Universitè de Liège, 2 vols (Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1969), I, pp. 1–4.

English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April-8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 80;

Garnett, George, Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 182, 272, 285, 286.

Norton, Christopher, ‘History, wisdom and illumination’, in Symeon of Durham: Historian of Durham and the North, ed. by David Rollason (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 1998), pp. 76–77.

Rollason, D., ed. and trans., Symeon of Durham: Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie : tract on the origins and progress of this the Church of Durham, (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 2000), p. lxxix.

Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 114.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Simeon of Durham, c 1060-c 1128,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080044353,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78629943
Subjects:
History
Places:
Northern England