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Cotton MS Claudius B V, ff 4–134
- Record Id:
- 041-001102473
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001a0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101145605.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius B V, ff 4–134
- Title:
- Acts of the Council of Constantinople, with an added miniature of the Annunciation to Zacharias
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4-134: Acts of the Council of Constantinople (680), dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century;
f. 134v: A miniature from a Gospel-book or Gospel lectionary, dated to the 4th quarter of the 8th century or 1st quarter of the 9th century, pasted in beneath the text on f. 134v. Beneath the image are the words 'angelus d[omi]ni stans a dextris altaris incensi'.
ff. 135-136: Flyleaves.
Decoration
Added framed miniature in brown, red, green and yellow of the Annunciation to Zacharias (Luke 1:11) (f. 134v). Initials in silver, now oxidised, or brown. Rubrics in silver, red or brown capitals. Neums in the margins (ff. 67v, 92r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102471
041-001102473 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius B V : Acts of the Council of Constantinople with an additional pasted miniature
Cotton MS Claudius B V, ff 4–134 : Acts of the Council of Constantinople, with an added miniature of the Annunciation to Zacharias - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0567]/040-001102471[0002]/041-001102473
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_B_V (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0775
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 270mm (written space: 265 x 175mm).
Foliation: ff. i +137 (ff. i, 135 and 136 are flyleaves + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning, +1 parchment leaf following f. 134 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end; ff. 1 and 137 have been removed and rebound in BL Royal 13 D. I*).
Collation: ff. 4-136: i6(ff. 4-9), ii-iii8(ff. 10-25), iv6(ff. 32-37), v8(ff. 38-45), vi6(ff. 46-51), vii-ix8(ff. 52-83), x6(ff. 84-90), xi8(ff. 91-98), xii6 (ff. 99-104), xiii-xiv8(ff. 105-120), xv6(ff. 121-126), xvi8 (ff. 127-136).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding. BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1958.
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Bibliography for the Acts of the Council of Constantinople, ff. 4-134:
Alexander, J. J. G., Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 153, n. 5, 154.
Birch, Walter de Gray and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 3.
Bischoff, Bernard, Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. and ed. by Michael Gorman, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994; originally published in Mittelalterliche Studien: Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte I-III (Stuttgart: Hieresmann, 1966-1981)), p. 31.
Bloch, Peter and Hermann Schnitzler, eds, Die Ottonische Kölner Malerschule (Dusseldorf: L. Schwann, 1967), pp. 47-8.
Carley, J. P., ed., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London, 2000), p. xlv.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), p. 88.
Gameson, R., 'The circulation of Books between England and the Continent, c. 871-c. 1100' in R. Gameson, ed., The History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 344-72 (p. 349, n. 17).
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, A Bibliographical Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), nos. 316, 316.1.
Henderson, George, 'Emulation and invention in Carolingian art', in Rosamond McKitterick, ed., Carolingian culture: emulation and innovation, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 248-73 (p. 260).
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 7.
Keynes, Simon, ‘King Athelstan’s books’, in Michael Lapidge & Helmut Gneuss (eds.), Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies presented to Peter Cleomoes on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 143-201 (pp.159–65).
Koehler, Wilhelm, ‘An illustrated evangelistary of the Ada school and its model’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 15 (1952), 48–66.
Koehler, Wilhelm, Die karolingischen Miniaturen, II: Die Hofschule Karls des Grossen (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kinstwissenschaft, 1958), pp. 47-48.
Lowe, E. A., ed., Codices Latini Antiquiores: Supplement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), no. 1702.
McGurk, Patrick, Latin Gospel Books from A. D. 400 to A. D. 800 (Paris: Érasme, 1961), no. 21.
McKitterick, Rosamund, 'Exchanges between the British Isles and the Continent, c.450-c.900' in R. Gameson, ed., The History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 313-37 (p. 330, n. 107).
[J. Planta], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 191-92.
Wieland, 'A Survey of Latin Manuscripts' in Owen-Crocker, Gale, ed., Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2009), pp. 113-57 (p. 121).
Wood, Michael, 'Stand strong against the monsters: kingship and learning in the empire of King Aethelstan', in Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson, eds, Lay intellectuals in the Carolingian World, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 192-217 (p. 209).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)