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Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
- Record Id:
- 041-001103027
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0002b8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060439016.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
- Title:
- Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103026
041-001103027 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII : Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C XII
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1 : Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 1r-113v : Historia tripartita
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v : Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0840]/040-001103026[0001]/041-001103027
- 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_100060439016.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 340 x 280 mm (text space maximum ranges from 260 x 155 mm to 250 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. i-156 (where f. i is an early modern endleaf + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).
Binding: BM/BL inhouse, rebound in 1964.
- Custodial History:
- Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. 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 Vitellius C XII part 1
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 158 [exhibition catalogue].
Gameson, Richard, 'English Manuscript Art in the late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context' in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe(London: Hambledon, 1995), pp. 95-144 (pp. 101-2, 104, 126, 137, 143).
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: British Academy, 1999), no. 422.
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. 405.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.
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. 577.
Wormald, Francis, Collected Writings I: Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, ed. by J.J.G. Alexander, T.J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 161.
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)