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Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 59–120

Record Id:

041-001102331

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000159

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100066409375.0x000006

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 59–120

Title:

Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Wilfridi Archiepiscopi; Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Werburge Virginis; Lectiones in Festivitate Sancte Werburge; Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in Festivitate Beate Sexburge Regine; Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in Natale Sancte Eormenhilde; Passio Sancte Margarete Virginis; Miracula Sancte Wihtburge Virginis; Vita Beate Sexburge Regine

Scope & Content:

These folios contains various hagiographical works related to St Wilfrid, St Margaret and saints associated with Ely, by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and others. All of these texts were copied in the 1st half of the 12th century, except for Miracula Sancte Wihtburge Virginis (The Miracles of St Wihtburg), which was copied in the mid-12th century. In the medieval period these formed a single manuscript with ff. 129-209. The current ff. 121-128 were the medieval endleaves for this manuscript.

Contents:

ff. 59r–85v: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Wilfridi Archiepiscopi (The Life of St Wilifrid)

ff. 86r–91v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Werburge Virginis (Life of St Werburge)

ff. 91v–93v: Lectiones in Festivitate Sancte Werburge (Readings for the Feast of St Werburge)

ff. 93v–95v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in Festivitate Beate Sexburge Regine (Readings for the Feast of St Sexburge). This text is labelled 'Lectiones' in the manuscript, but Riyard argues that it varies only slightly from the vita of Sexburga in Cambridge, Trinity College, O.2.1, ff. 215-218 (Ridyard, Royal Saints (1988), p. 57).

ff. 95v–98r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in Natale Sancte Eormenhilde (Readings for the Anniversary of St Eormenhild).

ff. 98r–101v: Passio Sancte Margarete Virginis (The Passion of St Margaret).

ff. 102r–107v: Miracula Sancte Wihtburge Virginis.

ff. 108r–120v: Vita Beate Sexburge Regine (The Life of St Sexburge).

Decoration:

Larger initials in red, blue and/or green with penwork decoration (ff. 59r, 60r, 98r, 108r). Red block obscuring text (f. 86r). Rubrics in red. Highlights in red. Initials in red and green with some penwork decoration throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102327
041-001102331

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 59–120 : Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Wilfridi Archiepiscopi; Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte…

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0496]/040-001102327[0004]/041-001102331

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1170

Date Range:

1st half of the 12th century-Mid 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Script: Protogothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Ely Cathedral Priory: inscribed with ex libris and arms of Robert Steward, Prior of Ely, and date 1531 (f. 168v; see Love, Goscelin (2004), p. lxix).

Publications:

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992; available online at https://archive.org/details/bibliothecahagi00poncgoog).

Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 367;

Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 78;

Lapidge, Michael, and Michael Winterbottom, eds. and trans., Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St Æthelwold (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. clxx–clxxv;

Love, Rosalind C., ed. and trans., Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. xlviii–l;

Muir, Bernard J., and Andrew J. Turner, eds. and trans., Vita Sancti Wilfridi Auctore Edmero: The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998), pp. lxv–lxvi.

Ridyard, S., The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 56-57.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eadmer of Canterbury, c 1060-after 1126,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007139399X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100181126
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, hagiographer, c 1035-c 1107,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000382865456,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/266592111

Subjects:

Hagiography
Liturgy

Places:

England

Related Material:

Ff. 59-120 and ff. 129-209 are parts of the same manuscript, with ff. 121-128 being the medieval endleaves.