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Cotton MS Claudius D II, ff 4–27, 33–43, 45–118, 127–138, 269–280
- Record Id:
- 041-001102522
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001bf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius D II, ff 4–27, 33–43, 45–118, 127–138, 269–280
- Title:
- Statutes of England, Ine of Wessex (688–726)–Edward II (1307–1327), including the Tribal Hidage (4v) (‘Liber Legum Regum Antiquorum’)
- Scope & Content:
-
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (134r–136r, 269r–278v, 280r–v)
Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (278v–279r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102521
041-001102522 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius D II : Cotton Manuscript Claudius D II
Cotton MS Claudius D II, ff 4–27, 33–43, 45–118, 127–138, 269–280 : Statutes of England, Ine of Wessex (688–726)–Edward II… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0585]/040-001102521[0001]/041-001102522
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: the Guildhall, London; (?)William Fleetwood (d. 1594); (?)Francis Tate (d. 1616); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: London
- Publications:
- Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London, 1997), no. 89; Brown, Michelle P., ‘Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur?’, in Michelle P. Brown & Scot McKendrick (eds.), Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse (London, 1998), p. 294; Cannon, Debbie, ‘London pride: citizenship and the fourteenth-century custumals of the city of London’, in Sarah Rees Jones (ed.), Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad (Turnhout, 2003), pp. 179–98; Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 126; Ker, Neil R., ‘Liber Custumarum, and other manuscripts formerly at the Guildhall’, The Guildhall Miscellany, 3 (1954), 37–45; Rumble, Alexander R., ‘The manuscript evidence: the known manuscripts of the Burghal Hidage’, in David Hill & Alexander R. Rumble (eds.), The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon fortifications (Manchester, 1996), p. 49; Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols (London, 1986), no. 68; Wormald, Patrick, ‘“Quadripartitus”’, in George Garnett & John Hudson (eds.), Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt (Cambridge, 1994), p. 121
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- other portions of this manuscript are London, Guildhall Library, Custumal 6 (‘Liber custumarum’), ff. v, 1–102, 173–186, and Oxford, Oriel College, MS. 46, ff. 109–211; the miniatures were painted in the workshop responsible for Queen Mary’s Psalter (London, British Library, MS. Royal 2 B. VII)