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Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 3r–175v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102730
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00024c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366952.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 3r–175v
- Title:
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A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r–63r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britannie;
ff. 63r–71r: Historia Brittonum (Gildas recension);
ff. 72r–135v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum;
ff. 135v-146v: Gesta Normmanorum ducum (redaction A);
ff. 147r–159v: Robert de Torigni, Gesta Normmanorum ducum (redaction F);
ff. 160r–169r: Vita Alexandri regis magni (Epitome of Julius Valerius);
ff. 169r-174v: Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem;
ff. 174v–175r: A list of Bede's works;
f. 175r: One of the texts from the Prophecies of Merlin Sylvester, beginning, 'Mortuo leone iustitie surgit', added in a less formal script of late-twelfth or early-thirteenth century.
Decoration:
Large initials in red and green with foliate penwork decoration in both colours at the beginning of texts and major divisions (ff. 3r, 8v, 12v, 17r, 22r, 27r, 33v, 37r, 44r, 50v, 56r, 63r, 72r, 76r (x2), 79r, 79v, 91v, 104v (x2), 135v, 139v, 142r, 147r, 149r, 160r, 169r). Numerous initials in red or green with penwork decoration in the other colour. Small initials in red or green at the beginning of lines. Rubrics in red or green. Running titles in the upper margins in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102729
041-001102730 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero D VIII : Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII
Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 3r–175v : A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0651]/040-001102729[0001]/041-001102730
- 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:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Custodial History:
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Origin (ff. 3–175): England.
Provenance (ff. 3–175):
John Stow (b. c. 1525, d. 1605), chronicler, his name inscribed on f. 3r.
Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614), Chamberlain of the Exchequer, in his library (see Andrew Watson, 'The manuscript collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)', Bodleian Library Record, 12 (1987), 262-97).
- Publications:
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Boer, Walther Walther, ed., Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem ad codicum fidem edita et commentario critico instructa (The Hague, 1953), p. xiii.
Crick, Julia C., The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 3, A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989), no. 92.
Flood, Victoria, 'Prophecy as history: A New Study of the Prophecies of Merlin Silvester', Neophilologus (2018), 1-17 (p. 3), online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-018-9564-x [accessed 07/06/2018].
Huisman, Gerda A., ‘Notes on the manuscript tradition of Dudo of St Quentin’s Gesta Normannorum’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 6 (1983), pp. 122, n. 3, 123–25, 131–35.
Laistner, M. L. W., & H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, NY, 1943), p. 110.
Ross, D. J. A., ‘A check-list of MSS of three Alexander texts: the Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum Dindimo’, Scriptorium, 10 (1956), p. 130.
Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C., ed. and trans., The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992–95), I, pp. xcvi, cxiv.
Ward, H. L. D., & J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Library, 1883–1910), I, pp. 113–14, 230.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Cope, Walter, Knight, administrator, c 1553-1614
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, historian, 965-1043,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114080847,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/166879783
Geoffrey of Monmouth, historian and Bishop of St Asaph, c 1100-c 1154,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123212370,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89028232
Robert of Torigni, Abbot of Mont Saint-Michel, c 1110–1186,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079751640,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51662293
Stow, John, d 1605