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Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Record Id:
- 041-001102744
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000256
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060436155.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains:
ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary.
ff. 166-80: part of second section of the second volume of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary.
ff. 181r-184v: part of the ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral.
ff 185r-186v: Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt), copied in the late 10th or early 11th century.
ff 189-222: part of another Legendary (imperfect), copied in the late 12th or early 13th century, covering saints whose feast days are in May, July, and August.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102742
041-001102744 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero E I : ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton…
Cotton MS Nero E I/2 : ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 1-180, 187-188 : ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 (imperfect) and volume 2 (imperfect)
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 181-184 : ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates…
Cotton Nero E I/2, ff 185-186 : Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt)
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 185-186 : Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt)
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222 : Legendary (imperfect)
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- 032-001101582[0655]/040-001102742[0002]/041-001102744
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060436155.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding: 410 x 310 mm (folio: 390 x 280 mm; text space 330 x 220 mm).
Foliation: ff. 222 (+ 5 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/ British Library in-house, rebound in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (Worcester Cathedral, for many parts)
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: number 219 in his catalogue of 1621 (Harley MS 6018). Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton. Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Nero E I, part II
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), various.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: British Academy, 1999), no. 397.
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. 344.
Hartzell, K. D., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), no. 139.
Jackson, Peter and Michael Lapidge, ‘The contents of the Cotton-Corpus legendary’, in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts, ed. by Paul E. Szarmach (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 131–46.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 29.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 207.
Ker, Neil R., ‘The Offa Bible and the Nero-Middleton Cartulary’, in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622–1623 by Patrick Young, ed. by Ivor Atkins and Neil R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), pp. 77–79.
Love, R. ed. and trans., Three Eleventh-Century Saints' Lives (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. xviii-xxiii.
Muir, Bernard J. and Andrew J. Turner, Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. xci-ii, cxxii, 42, 69.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), pp. 239-41.
Sawyer, P. H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968); edited by Susan Kelly, Rebecca Rushforth, and others, The Electronic Sawyer, 2007 [http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/310.html] (accessed 15 April 2016).
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 138-39.
Winterbottom, Michael and R. M. Thomson (eds), William of Malmesbury: Saints’ Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 159-60.
Winters, Jane and others (ed.), ‘Manuscript F’, Early English Laws, website [http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/laws/manuscripts/f/] (accessed 15 April 2016).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)