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Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102731
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00024d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366952.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v
- Title:
- Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 176r–183r: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambrie (1st recension);
ff. 183r–186r: Disputacio inter clericum et militem;
ff. 186r-187r: De origine gigantium;
ff. 187r–v: De longitudine et latitudine Anglie;
ff. 188r-344v: Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon, to AD 1376.
Decoration:
Puzzle initials with penwork decoration in red and purple at the beginning of texts or major divisions (ff. 176r, 179v, 188r , 210v, 227r, 248v, 269v, 294r, 308v, . Numerous initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in red or purple. Paraphs in red or blue. A pen diagram (f. 213r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102729
041-001102731 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero D VIII : Cotton Manuscript Nero D VIII
Cotton MS Nero D VIII, ff 176r–344v : Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon and other texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0651]/040-001102729[0002]/041-001102731
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin (ff. 176-344): Britain.
Provenance (ff. 176-344):
(?)Robert Glover (b. 1544, d. 1588), herald: perhaps item J1 in the list of his books in Lansdowne MS 58, f. 105v (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 138).
Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget (d. 1590), he perhaps owned ff. 176-187: his name inscribed on f. 176v.
- Publications:
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Carley, James P., and Julia Crick, ‘Constructing Albion’s past: an annotated edition of De origine gigantum’, Arthurian Literature, 13 (1994), 41–114; reprinted in James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 69, 73, 85–87.
Dimock, James F., ed., Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, VI, Itinerarium Kambriæ, et Descriptio Kambriæ, Rolls Series (London, 1868), pp. xxiii–xxiv.
Ruddick, Andrea, English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 53.
Summit, Jennifer, Memory's library: medieval books in early modern England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 145.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gerald of Wales, author and ecclesiastic, ?1146-1223,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000457817353,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/219992833
Glover, Robert, herald, genealogist and antiquarian, 1544-1588
Higden, Ranulf, d 1364,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079797120,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633533