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Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 137–150
- Record Id:
- 041-001102433
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000186
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060457614.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 137–150
- Title:
- Benedictional
- Scope & Content:
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These folios include a relatively brief Benedictional which was made c. 1000. It originally supplemented the Pontifical found on ff. 106r-135v and 39r-86v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102422
041-001102433 - 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 137–150 : Benedictional - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0553]/040-001102422[0011]/041-001102433
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_A_III (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0990
- End Date:
- 1023
- Date Range:
- c. 1000
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Worcester or ? York): These folios were originally bound with the poem and law codes on ff. 31v-38v and the Pontifical on ff. 39r-86v and 106r-150v. Wormholes suggest that the original order of the folios was ff. 31r-38v, 106r-136v, 39r-38v, 137r-150v (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 177).
Provenance:
Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York: annotated folios which were bound with this Pontifical (see, for example, f. 35r).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Brückmann, J., ‘Latin manuscript pontificals and benedictionals in England and Wales’, Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (pp. 434–35).
Dumville, David N., Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Woodbridge, 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.
Jones, Christopher A., Wulfstan's Liturgical Interests, in Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, ed. by Matthew Townend (Brepols: Turnhout, 2004), pp. 325-52 (pp. 334-46).
Ker, Neil, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 141.
Prescott, 'The Structure of English Pre-Conquest Benedictionals', British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 118-58 (p. 123).
Turner, D. H., ed., The Claudius Pontificals, Henry Bradshaw Society, 97 (1971), especially pp. viii–xxviii, 1–88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)