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Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117
- Record Id:
- 041-001102357
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00016c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061709006.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117
- Title:
- Jerome, De viris illustribus and Vita Sancti Pauli; extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (i.21–27, 37); extract from Cyprian, Ad Quirinum Testimonia, book iii; computistical texts; and Easter tables
- Scope & Content:
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This collection of patristic writings appears to have been originally written in the second half of the 8th century at a monastery in the north of what is now France, at a centre with insular links. Some capitula and computus material were added in the first half of the 9th century, especially on ff. 39r–41v, 65r–72r.
These folios contain:
ff. 3r-31r: Jerome, De viris illustribus;
ff. 31r-36r: Jerome, Vita sancti Pauli eremite (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, 6596);
ff. 36r-38v: extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (i.21–27, 37);
ff. 38v-64r: Cyprian, Ad Quirinum, book iii;
ff. 65r-109v: computistical texts, including Ps.-Maurinus of Alexandria, Epistola de ortu Paschali (82v–83v) and Dionysius Exiguus's computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (84r–86v);
ff. 110r-117v: Easter tables.
Decoration: large decorated initials, ff. 3r, 5r (initial with interlace and animal head terminals), 38v, 106v; rubrication (in some places oxidized) throughout ff. 3-38v, 65r-117v; geometric design scratched in margin (f. 62); circular comuptistical charts (108v-109v); smaller initials throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102356
041-001102357 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A XV : Jerome, De viri illustribus, Jerome, Vita S Pauli, extracts from Isidore's Eymologiae, book III of Cyprian's Ad…
Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117 : Jerome, De viris illustribus and Vita Sancti Pauli; extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0503]/040-001102356[0001]/041-001102357
- 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_Caligula_a_XV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century-1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France, 2nd half of 8th century. Additions were made to the main text in the early 9th century on ff. 39r–41v and 65r–72r, also apparently in northern France.
Provenance:
England, 10th century: a phrase with English names, 'Liofric sacerd[os] garulf levita' was scratched (f. 41v).
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: listed in a 15th-century record of the books of the abbey (Trinity College Dublin, MS 360, ed. by Baker-Benfield, St Augustine's (2008), no. 330, I, 511, III, 1828).
Sir Walter Cope (b. c. 1553, d. 1614), administrator: owned, according to Thomas James's list (edited by Watson, Medieval Manuscripts (2004), chapter VIII, p. 286).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Barker-Benfield, B.C., St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), I, 511.
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis [BHL], Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 6596.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), p. 66.
Richard Gameson, 'The circulation of books between England and the Continent, c. 871- c. 1100' , in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 344-72 (p. 348 n. 14).
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. 311.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 43.
Lapidge, Michael, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 169, 299, 311, 315, 316.
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores II, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), no. 183 (p. 19).
Watson Andrew G., Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), chapter VIII, p. 286.
Wieland, G.R., 'A Survey of Latin Manuscripts', in Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, ed. by Gale Owen-Crocker (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009), pp. 113-57 (pp. 130, 153).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)