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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

Record Id:

041-001102578

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001e4

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100109137606.0x000004

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

Title:

Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex

Scope & Content:

These folios contain a series of law codes associated with Anglo-Saxon kings or writers, including the earliest known copies of I and II Cnut. These texts include:

ff. 3r-16r: I Cnut (3r–16r);

ff. 16r-41r: II Cnut;

ff. 42r-44v: II-III Edgar;

ff. 45r-48r, 51r-57v: law codes of Alfred and Ine (imperfect, completed by John Joscelyn in ff. 58-69);

f. 48r: Romscot;

ff. 48r-50v: ‘Judex’ (from Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, chapter 20).

Decoration: initials in red, oxidized red, green (from f. 13v), and black (ff. 3r-40r); red fill in a letter (f. 12v); initials with foliate detail (ff. 16r-40r); sketch of a cross in the margin (ff. 16r, 40r); red and green initials (f. 42r); initials and numerals in red (ff. 44r-48r); green initials (f. 48r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102576
041-001102578

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero A I : Early modern index; Anglo-Saxon law codes I Cnut, II Cnut, II-III Edgar, the law codes of Alfred and of Ine (imperfect),…

Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57 : Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0604]/040-001102576[0002]/041-001102578

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

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Languages:

English, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1050

End Date:

1074

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 11th century

Era:

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Custodial History:

Origin: England (?Canterbury): unlike other manuscripts of Cnut's laws, its wording reflects Kentish legal practices, leading some scholars to suggest it was copied at Canterbury (see Wormald, Making (1999), p. 226). Most of its text was written by two scribes, the second of which begins on f. 42.

Provenance:

Later medieval annotations throughout.

Daniel de Ditone (unknown): inscribed 'Magister Danial de Ditone... scribit' (f. 4r).

Publications:

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. 340.

Hartzell, K. D., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), no. 137.

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 163.

Liebermann, Felix, Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Halle, 1903-16), I, pp. xxv, 16-44, 194-204, 278-306, 308-70, 474-76 [includes edition].

Stokes, Peter A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), p. 54.

Torkar, Roland, Eine altenglische Übersetzung von Alcuins de Virtutibus et Vitiis, KAP. 20: Liebermanns Judex Untersuchungen und Textausgabe mit einem Anhang: die Gesetze II und V Aethelstan nach Otho b. xi und Add. 43703 (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1981), pp. 168-85, 249-55 [includes edition of Judex].

Whitelock, Dorothy, 'Wulfstan and the Laws of Cnut', English Historical Review, 63 (1948), 433-52 (pp. 435-36, 442, 444-45).

Wormald, Patrick, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 138 n. 82, 165, 230 n. 68, 224-28.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)