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Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38
- Record Id:
- 041-001102429
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000182
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060457614.0x00000b
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38
- Title:
- Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English
- Scope & Content:
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These folios, copied between 1008 (when the lawcode was issued) and 1023 (when Wulfstan, archbishop of York, who may have annotated it, died), contain:
f. 31v: Thureth, an Old English verse preface written from the point of view of a 'halgungboc' (a benedictional or pontifical);
ff. 32r-35r: lawcode known as VI Æthelred, in Latin;
ff. 35v-38v: lawcode known as VI Æthelred, in Old English.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102422
041-001102429 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A III : Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38 : Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0553]/040-001102422[0007]/041-001102429
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_A_III (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1008
- End Date:
- 1023
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Worcester or ? York: the metrical inscription records that ornate bindings for the halgungboc (pontifical or benedictional) were commissioned by 'Thureth' (f. 31v), possibly to be identified with a magnate with connections to Peterborough, like the book's later owner Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York (see Wormald, 'Law books' (2012), p. 530). The patterns of wormholes suggest that these leaves were originally preceded the imperfect Pontifical on ff. 39-86 and 106r-150, in the order ff. 31-38, 106-136, 39-86, 137-150 (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 177).
Provenance:
Wulfstan [Lupus] (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York: annotated (see, for example, f. 35r).
? Samuel Ward (d. 1643), Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge : inscribed with his name (f. 31r).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bragg, Lois, The Lyric Speakers of Old English Poetry (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991), pp. 45, 54.
Dumville, David N., Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992), pp. 69, 78–79.
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. 314.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 141.
Ker, N. R., ‘The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan’, in his Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage (London: Hambledon Press, 1985), p. 15;
O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine, Visible Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 23 n. 1.
Pfaff, Richard W. (ed.), The Liturgical Books of Anglo-Saxon England, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia 23 (Kalamazoo, MI, 1995), p. 91.
Ronalds, Craig and Margaret Clunies Ross, ‘Thureth: a neglected Old English poem and its history in Anglo-Saxon scholarship’, Notes and Queries, 246, New Series 48 (2001), 359–70.
Sharpe, Richard (ed.), 'Manuscript K', Early English Laws, website (accessed 11 January 2016) [http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/laws/manuscripts/k/] [includes links to editions].
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 518.
Wormald, Patrick, 'Law books', 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. 525-36 (pp. 530-31, 534).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)