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Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125
- Record Id:
- 041-001103303
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00037b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101145606.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125
- Title:
- Stephen, Vita Sancti Wilfridi
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v (which contains chapter 15 of the vita) and folio 88r (which contains part of chapter 18).
Decoration: red initials with penwork, including interlace, foliate details, and beasts' heads (ff. 78r, 81v, 117r, 118r); initials in black, brown, and red with foliate details, interlace, and beasts' heads (ff. 87v, 100v, 111r, 115r, 119v); initials with decoration including humanoid faces (108r, 109v, 113v); large initial with penwork decoration including interlace and a beast's head in grey, red, and brown (f. 121r); initials, title headings, and incipits in red alternate with initials, title headings, and incipits in red, black, and brown or gold throughout the text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103301
041-001103303 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI : Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis ; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note…
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125 : Stephen, Vita Sancti Wilfridi - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0970]/040-001103301[0002]/041-001103303
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- Record Type (Level):
- Item
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Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Northern England
Provenance:
? Yorkshire, 12th century or later (see notes on f. 125v and Dumville, Liturgy (1992), p. 106).
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 8889.
Colgrave, Bertram (ed. and trans.), The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927) [includes edition].
Dumville, David, Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 106.
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: The British Academy, 1999), no. 417.
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. 390.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)