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Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 41r–157v

Record Id:

041-001102416

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000177

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 41r–157v

Title:

Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti Nazarii; Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi and Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi; Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, De spiritali prato; Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, Epistola ad Abram filiam suam; Hilary of Arles, Sermo in depositione sancti Honorati episcopi; Libellus de nativitate sancte Dei genetricis Marie; Paul the Deacon's translation of Vita sancte Marie Egyptiace; Pseudo-Aurelianus, Vita sancti Martialis episcopi; Anastasius Bibliothecarius translation of Leontius of Naples, Vita sancti Iohannis Eleemosynarii; Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti episcopi; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Scope & Content:

This item includes a variety of haiographical works, written in the late 11th or early 12th century. These include:

ff. 41r–43r: Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no.377);

ff. 43r–46r: Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 377);

ff. 46r–50r: Inventio sancti Nazarii (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 377);

ff. 50r–54v: Ps.-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3871);

ff. 54v–58v: Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3885);

ff. 58v–61r: Venantius Fortunatus, Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3887);

ff. 61r–v: Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, De spiritali prato;

ff. 61v–63r: Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, Epistola ad Abram filiam suam (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3887a);

ff. 63r–72v: Hilary of Arles, Sermo in depositione sancti Honorati episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3975);

ff. 73r–76v: Pseudo-Jerome, Libellus de nativitate sancte Dei genetricis Marie (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 5343–45);

ff. 76v–84r: Paul the Deacon's translation of Vita sancte Marie Egyptiace (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 5415);

ff. 84r–97r: Pseudo-Aurelianus, Vita sancti Martialis episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 5552);

f. 91r: blank;

ff. 97r–125v: Anastasius Bibliothecarius' translation of Leontius of Cyprus, Vita sancti Iohannis Eleemosynarii (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 4388);

ff. 125v–155v: Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2021);

ff. 155v–156v: excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, book iv, chapters 29-30;

ff. 157 r-v: blank.

Decoration: large initial in red (ff. 41r, 43r, 46r, 50r, 54v, 55r); decorative capitals in black (ff. 41r, 50v, 55r-v); smaller, mid-line initials in red and black (ff. 41r-49v); rubrics in red (ff. 41r, 43r, 46r, 50r-v, 54v, 55r-v); initials in red, red oxidized to blue-grey, and green, with penwork decoration (f. 73r); rubrics in red and black, sometimes with letters filled in green (ff. 73r, 76v, 84r); initials and rubrics in green and oxidized red with penwork decoration (84r); small initials and numbers in green and oxidized red (ff. 84r-96v); cross surrounded by four dots (ff. 91v, 92r); Greek letters (f. 95r); initials and rubrics in oxidized red (ff. 97r, 97v); initials in red or green or letters highlighted in red or green (ff. 107r-124v); letters filled with red and green (ff. 125v, 127v); numbers in red or green (ff. 126v-127r); initials in red or green, rubrics in red (throughout ff. 126v-156v); blank spaces left for initials, rubrics, or both (ff. 125v, 134v-136v, 143r, 146r, 147r-151r-152v, 155v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102412
041-001102416

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A I : Passio sancti Cypriani (imperfect); Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (imperfect); Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of…

Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 41r–157v : Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti…

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0551]/040-001102412[0004]/041-001102416

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Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A I

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1075

End Date:

1124

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century

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Custodial History:

Origin: England

Provenance:

John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: annotated throughout (for example, f. 58v).

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Publications:

Birch, Walter de Gray, ‘Vita Sanctissimi Martialis Apostoli: The Life of St. Martial by Aurelianus, from a manuscript in the British Museum’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 28 (1872), 353–90.

Colgrave, Bertram (ed. and trans.), Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert: A Life by an Anonymous Monk of Lindisfarne and Bede’s Prose Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940), pp. 30–31.

Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: British Academy, 1999), no. 371.

Gneuss, Helmut, ‘Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), 293–305, no. 312.1.

Laistner, M. L. W. and H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 90.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)