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Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182
- Record Id:
- 041-001103230
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000340
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061274639.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182
- Title:
- William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain an imperfect copy of the Historia rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. c. 1198) Augustinian canon and historian. Although the last chapter is now missing, it is mentioned in the table of contents (f.111v). A quire is lacking as the catchword at the bottom of the leaf testifies (f. 182v).
The Historia is divided into 5 books, covering the period from 1066 to 1198, from William the Conqueror to Richard the Lionheart. This particular copy, made in the 1st half of the 13th-century copy, was probably owned by the Augustinian abbey of Oseney in the Oxfordshire.
The work ends imperfectly, a chapter is missing,
f. 111r: William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, Dedicatory letter to Ernaldus of Rielvaux.
ff. 111r-v: Table of contents.
ff. 111v-113r: Prologue of the Historia rerum Anglicarum.
ff. 113r-182v: William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum with several nearly contemporary marginal glosses in Latin. The last one is dated to 1201 (f. 182v).
Decoration:
Initials in red and green, some with pen flourishing decoration. Letters in red and green. Rubrics in red. Line-fillers in red at the end of some rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103226
041-001103230 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI : Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of…
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182 : William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum. - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0928]/040-001103226[0004]/041-001103230
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 180mm ( 220 x 140 mm).
Script: Gothic textualis.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Osney, Oxfordshire: local Osney annotations in the margins 'Bigodus abbas noster', 'obiit Edwardus abbas .ii. Osen' ' (ff. 133v, 145v).
In a modern hand perhaps John Joscelyn's or Henry Savile's (d. 1622): 'Mr Savell gave me this boke in Trinitie ferme anno domini 1569' (f. 111r). See: Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval libraries in Britain (Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, 2015) https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/citingreferences/mhra/page08e.html [accessed 19 April 2016].
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 grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet, who bequeathed the entire 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.
- Publications:
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Howlett, Richard, ed., Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I., 4 vols, Rolls Series (London: Longman and co.,1884–89), I, pp. xxxix, xlii–xliii.
Ker, Neil R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 140.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval libraries in Britain (Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, 2015) https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/citingreferences/mhra/page08e.html [accessed 19 April 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)