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Cotton MS Claudius D VI, ff 101–217
- Record Id:
- 041-001102536
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058666294.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius D VI, ff 101–217
- Title:
- William Rishanger, chronicles
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 101r–118v: William Rishanger, Narratio de duobus bellis apud Lewes et Euesham.
ff. 119r–137v: William Rishanger, Opus chronicorum, 1259–1297.
ff. 138r–v: William Rishanger, De controuersia habita super electione regni Scotie.
ff. 139r–164v: William Rishanger, Annales regni Scotie.
ff. 165r–176v: William Rishanger, Annales Anglie et Scotie, 1292–1300 (imperfect).
ff. 177r–184r: William Rishanger, De tempore regis Edwardi, 1299–1300.
ff. 184v–186r: De bello Scotico.
ff. 188r–190r: William Rishanger, Quomodo Edwardus tertius rex petiit medietatem, 1295–1300.
ff. 191r–192v: William Rishanger, Recapitulatio breuis de gestis Edwardi I, 1297–1307.
ff. 193r: Verse chronicle of the kings of England, 1285–1326/7.
ff. 194r–212r: John de Trokelowe (?), Annales, 1307–1322.
ff. 212r–217v: Henry of Blaneford, Chronicon, 1323–1324 (imperfect).
Decoration:
ff. 101r–118v: Rubricated headings and two-line initials in blue with red penwork decoration.
ff. 119r–193v: Vertical multicoloured borders, in style of St Albans sections of manuscript. Two-line initials alternating between red and blue, with penwork decoration in the alternate color, not executed from f. 165r. Headings in red.
ff. 194r–217v: Rubricated headings; space left for three- to eight-line initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102532
041-001102536 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius D VI : Chronicles of England
Cotton MS Claudius D VI, ff 101–217 : William Rishanger, chronicles - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0588]/040-001102532[0004]/041-001102536
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Benedictine abbey of St Alban, Hertfordshire. Associated with work of Matthew Paris.
Provenance:
King Henry VIII of England (b. 1509, d. 1547). Inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster in 1542, H2.1056 (Carley 2000).
- Publications:
- Carley, James P., ed., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000).
Carley, James P., ‘The royal library as a source for Sir Robert Cotton’s collection: a preliminary list of acquisitions’, in C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy (London, 1997), pp. 213–16.
Carley, James P., ‘William Rishanger’s Chronicles and history writing at St. Albans’, in Jacqueline Brown & William P. Stoneman (eds.), A Distinct Voice: Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. (Notre Dame, IN, 1997), pp. 71–102.
Ker, N.R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 166
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- Another portion of this item is Royal MS 14 C I, ff. 1–19.