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Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 3–168
- Record Id:
- 041-001102561
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001d9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063318155.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 3–168
- Title:
- Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3v-62v: Ralph of Diceto (d. 1202), Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles), beginning: 'In opusculo sequenti trium temporum scilicet ante legem'.
ff. 63r-153r: Ralph of Diceto, Ymagines Historiarum (Images of History), beginning: 'Henricus Gaufridi Plantegenest comitis Andegavorum'.
ff. 154r-168r: Winchester Chronicle, beginning: 'Ab incarnatione Domini nostri Ihesu Christi quid per annos mille'.
This part of the manuscript contains later additions:
f. 2r: a table of contents written by Cotton's librarian, Richard James.
[ff. 1r, 1v, 2v, 3r, 168v are blank].
Decoration:
1 diagram of the Creation in the form of an architectural arcade, outlined in red and tinted in yellow and blue (f. 10r); list of marginal signs in blue and red (f. 3v); 1 large gold initial C on a blue background (f. 10r); 1 large gold intial I (f. 15r); a small initial in blue ornamented with red (f. 5v); red and blue capitals, red rubrics, ochre and red highlights (ff. 110v-130r), marginal signs in Ralph’s Histories from f. 15v onwards.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102560
041-001102561 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius E III : Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon;…
Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 3–168 : Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0598]/040-001102560[0001]/041-001102561
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 415 x 295 mm (text space: 240-320 x 180-250 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 3v-10r, 15r-153r], 5 columns [f. 10v]; 1 column [ff. 11r-14v] and 3 columns [ff. 154r-168r]).
Script: Gothic, above top line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? London, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Cathedral church of St Paul's, London: the hands of Radulphus de Diceto’s Chronicles are identical to those in London, Lambeth Palace, MS. 8, London, British Library, Add MS 40007 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 76, also produced in London.
? The Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity and Saints Peter, Paul and Swithun of Winchester: the manuscript contains the chronicle of the cathedral priory.
William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), royal minister: see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 128.
? Francis, unidentified 16th-century owner: his signature: 'Francis', in a 16th-century script, cropped (f. 78v).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ralph of Diceto, Archdeacon of Middlesex and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London, d c 1200,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081277829,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/49321866 - Subjects:
- History
- Places:
- London, England