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Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161

Record Id:

041-001102674

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000223

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100065060149.0x000003

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161

Title:

Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r).

[ff. 4r, 159v are blank]

Decoration:

Several large initials in red; numerous small initials in red, sometimes with simple ornamentation (e.g. 36v, 66v-68r, 69v-70r); red capitals, rubrics, highlights and notation.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102672
041-001102674

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero C V : Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory…

Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161 : Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0637]/040-001102672[0002]/041-001102674

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C V

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1075

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 340 × 270 mm (text space: 230 x 180 mm, in several columns)

Script: Protogothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: ?Mainz, Southern Germany or England.

Provenance:

?The Benedictine Abbey of St Alban, Mainz: inscribed with a report by Wezilo, archbishop of Mainz (1084-88), of the alleged final confession of Pope Gregory VII (1073-85), beginning ‘Volumus vos scire qui aecclesiastice cure solliciti estis’ (f. 3v); the chronicle contains notices of the abbey not found in the authorial copy. Marianus Scottus completed his Chronicle at St Martin, Mainz.

Robert (d. 1095), bishop of Hereford: owned by him, a great admirer of Marianus's Chronicle. He is known to have had a copy brought to England from St Alban's Abbey, Mainz (see Hamilton, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum (1870), pp. 300-01).

Hereford Cathedral Priory: inscribed with its notes, one in a 12th-century hand: ‘CRONICA’ (f. 3r) and another in a 15th-century hand, erased, legible under ultra-violet light: 'Cronica Mariani Scoti precii xiii s iiii d’, on the upper margin of f. 160v (see Gullick, ‘The English-owned manuscripts of the Collectio Lanfranci’ (2001), pp. 104-05; McGurk, The Chronicle of John of Worcester (1998), III, p. xviii).

?Thomas Caius (Kaye) (b. c. 1505, d. 1572), antiquary and college head: may have owned the manuscript (see Index Britanniae Scriptorum (1990), p. 286; Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 134).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Marianus Scottus, 1028-1082,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010892533X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44184295

Subjects:

History
Science

Places:

England
Mainz, Germany