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Cotton MS Nero D I, ff 2–202
- Record Id:
- 041-001102708
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00023d
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D I, ff 2–202
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Contents:
ff. 2r-25r: Matthew Paris, Vita Offarum.
ff. 25v-26v: Matthew Paris, a part of the Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, begins: 'Cum Danorum rabies in Anglia feralius grassaretur', ends: 'litteris minime commendatur'.
ff. 27r-29v: Translation of the relics St Alban.
ff. 30r-69r: Matthew Paris, the Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, begins: 'Hic prenotantur nomina Abbatum Ecclesie Sancti Albani'. Ends (f. 68v): 'hec pagina a frater Matthieo scripta est parisiensi. qui de futuris non presumit diffinire'. This is followed by accounts until 1252 (ff. 68v-69r).
ff. 69v-148v: Liber additamentorum, a cartulary spanning the years 1242-1259 gathered by Matthew Paris. This cartulary consists in numerous Papal privileges and St Alban's charters.
ff. 149r-161r: Series of St Alban's charters and privileges. Matthew Paris copied these documents from a 12th-century St Alban's cartulary.
ff. 162r-163r: a list of Popes from Peter to Nicolas III. The list is continued by later additions until Paul II.
ff. 163v-164v: a Liber provincialis.
ff. 165r-v: notes in the hand of Matthew Paris.
ff. 166r-v: continuation of the Liber provincialis.
ff. 166v-167r: Obituary of St Alban's from 1216 to 1253. Matthew Paris mentioned himself: 'Hoc anno ego Frater Matheus Parisiensis habitum suscepi religionis, die sancte Agnetis'.
f. 167r: Names of the kings of England from Hyne to Henry III with a long note on John the 1st.
ff. 168r-169r: Laurent of Saint-Alban's responses against Henri III's accusations laying against Hubert de Burgh, count of Kent.
ff. 169v-170v: A drawing of the elephant sent to Henry III by Louis IX of France as a gift in 1255 (f. 169v). Some account about the elephant are written (ff. 169r-170v).
ff. 171r-171v: coloured drawings of coats of arms of the English nobility.
f. 172r: The tenants holding fees and lands of St Alban's.
f. 172v: list of persons holding a land by service at Newcastle and Chichester, 28th year of Henry III's reign.
f. 173r: list of persons holding a land by service during the reign of Edward I.
ff. 173v-175v: various charters and accounts involving St Alban's, the king or the exchequer.
ff. 176r-183r: pleas from St Alban's.
ff. 181v-182r: lands owned by St Alban's written in Matthew Paris's hand.
ff. 183v-184r: drawn itinerary from London to Naples.
f. 184v-: accounts about Thomas of Savoy's sons with a genealogical tree in the margin. Accounts about the children of Alienor, queen of England accompanied with a genealogical tree in the margin.
f. 185r: a note in honour of the King of Offa. A note of the different winds accompanied with a diagram. A pen trial of a bird overcome the circle of the winds.
f. 185v: a circular diagram of the winds with the names in Latin and old French linked to the elements. Below, verses about the winds, the red rubric specifies: 'Frater Matheus, De ventis'.
Decoration:
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102706
041-001102708 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero D I : Matthew Paris, Liber additamentorum
Cotton MS Nero D I, ff 2–202 : Contents:ff. 2r-25r: Matthew Paris, Vita Offarum.ff. 25v-26v: Matthew Paris, a part of the Gesta abbatum… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0645]/040-001102706[0002]/041-001102708
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
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A Parchment codex, 202 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1230
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century-2nd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: St Albans Abbey
- Publications:
- Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 831; Dean, Ruth J., & Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999); HAHN, Cynthia, ‘The limits of text and image? Matthew Paris’s final project, the Vitae duorum Offarum, as a historical romance’, in David S. Areford & Nina A. Rowe (eds.), Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman (Aldershot, 2004), pp. 37–58; Hunt, Tony, ‘Anglo-Norman rules for the priories of St Mary de Pré and Sopwell’, in Stewart Gregory & D. A. Trotter (eds.), De mot en mot: Aspects of medieval linguistics. Essays in honour of William Rothwell (Cardiff, 1997), pp. 93–104; Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 166; Martin, Richard, ‘The Lives of the Offas: the posthumous reputation of Offa, king of the Mercians’, in David Hill & Margaret Worthington (eds.), Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference held in Manchester in 2000, BAR British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 49–54; Morgan, Nigel, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190–1285, 2 vols (London, 1982–88), no. 87; Vaughan, Richard, Matthew Paris (Cambridge, 1958), pp. 78–91; Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 542
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
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f. 197 is part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XIII, f. 133
Matthew Paris, Liber additamentorum, including Uite due Offorum (2r–25r), Gesta abbatum (30r–71r), a cartulary of St Albans Abbey (149r–155v, 157r–161v), a drawing of an elephant in the ménagerie of King Henry III of England (1216–1272) (169v), coats of arms (171r–v: Dean 391.1), a rule for St Mary de Pré (174r–175v), an itinerary to Italy (183v–184r), a map of England (187v), a rule for Sopwell Priory (194r–v) and Uita Stephani Langton archiepiscopi (197r)
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (98v, 132v, 138v–140v, 173r–175v, 194r–v)
Dated: middle of the 13th century, with additions to 2nd quarter of the 14th century