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Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121
- Record Id:
- 041-001103203
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000330
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061223744.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121
- Title:
- Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 104r–121v: Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica, excerpts from book 7, ‘Que sequntur de uita et gestis gloriosi Guillelmi ducis normannorum ac victorissimi regis anglorum extracta fuerunt de quodam libro antiquo monasterii sancte stepgani de cadomo cuius monasterii fundator quondam extitit. Dum fuererent in orbe tempestatis multe quarum alique … Verbum autem domini manet in eternum.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103194
041-001103203 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX : Leaves from a Book of Hours, the Libellus Æthelwoldi, documents relating to Ely, excerpts from the Liber…
Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121 : Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0917]/040-001103194[0009]/041-001103203
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Vespasian_A_XIX (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 175 × 130 mm (written area 130 × 95 mm).
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen (?): suggested by the text’s focus on William the Conqueror.
Provenance:
King Henry V of England (b. 1387, d. 1422) and his successors; King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491, d. 1547): recorded in the Richmond Palace inventory of 1535, Carley, Libraries, H1.113.
William Camden (d. 1623), as argued by van Houts, ‘Camden’ (1998), p. 243.
- Publications:
- Carley, James P., ed., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000).
Chibnall, Marjorie, ed. and trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, 6 vols (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1968–80), i, p. 121; iv, pp. xiv, 38–42, 80–108.
van Houts, Elisabeth M.C., ‘Camden, Cotton and the Chronicles of the Norman Conquest of England’, in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 238–52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)