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Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, ff 4r–93v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102974
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0002a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366968.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, ff 4r–93v
- Title:
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The 'Southwick Codex', containing Old English versions of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia; Gospel of Nicodemus; Debate of Saturn and Solomon (prose version); a homily on St Quintin
- Scope & Content:
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These folios, sometimes called the 'Southwick Codex' due to their later medieval provenance, contain four texts in Old English, copied as a discrete unit in England in the 2nd half of the 12th century.
ff. 4r–59v: the Old English version of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia (imperfect);
ff. 60r–86v: the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus (imperfect);
ff. 86v–93v: Debate or Dialogues of Saturn and Solomon, prose version;
f. 93v: an Old English homily on St Quintin (imperfect).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102971
041-001102974 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV : (1) Old English adaptations of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia and other texts (known as the 'Southwick…
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, ff 4r–93v : The 'Southwick Codex', containing Old English versions of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0805]/040-001102971[0003]/041-001102974
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Southwick Priory, Hampshire: inscribed 'Hic liber est Ecclesie beate marie de Suwika quem qui ab eadem abstulerit. vel titulum istum dolose deleverit nisi eidem ecclesie condigne satisfecerit; sit Anathema maranatha. fiat fiat; Amen; Amen' in a late 13th-century hand (f. 5r).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage is available at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv.
Kiernan, Kevin and others, Electronic Beowulf, 2 CD-ROMs (London, 1999) [facsimile edition].
- Publications:
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Cross, James E., and Thomas D. Hill (eds), The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982), p. 14.
Johnson, David F., ‘The transmission and reception of Alfredian “Apocrypha”’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 98-107 (p. 98 n.1).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 215.
Kiernan, Kevin S., Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript, rev. edn (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 110–19.
Kiernan, Kevin (ed.), Electronic Beowulf 4.0 (2015), sponsored by The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences and The British Library: [accessed 31 August 2021].
Torkar, Roland, ‘Cotton Vitellius A. xv (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas’, English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature, 67 (1986), 290–303.
Treharne, Elaine, 'London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv, fols 4-93', in The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, ed. by Orietta Da Rold and others (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), [https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Vite.A.xv.htm], accessed 30 May 2017.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)