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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71

Record Id:
041-001103375
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001101582
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0003d1
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100061304267.0x000001
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71
Title:
Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:

These folios contain various hymns and poems, all copied in what is now France or Germany in the first half of the 9th century:

ff. 41r–68v: Sedulius, Paschale carmen (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 11692);

ff. 68v–70v: Sedulius, Hymnus i (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 1904, Walther, Initia (1969), no. 2382);

ff. 70v–71r: Sedulius, Hymnus ii (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 33, Walther, Initia (1969), no. 87);

f. 71v: excerpt from Prudentius, Psychomachia.

Decoration: Initial with interlace (f. 41r). Initial with red highlights (f. 50r); initials in black and brown.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Cotton Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-001101582
040-001103372
041-001103375
Is part of:
Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI : Historia Brittonum; Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus…

 

Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71 : Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Hierarchy:
032-001101582[0985]/040-001103372[0003]/041-001103375
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Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
0800
End Date:
0849
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:
Origin: France or Germany
Information About Copies:
Full digital coverage available: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Publications:

Schaller, Dieter and Ewald Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum: Bibliographisches Repertorium für die lateinische Dichtung der Antike und des früheren Mittelalters (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977), nos 33, 1904, 11692.

Springer, Carl P. E., The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 85, part 5 (Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1985), p. 62.

Walther, Hans, Initia Carminum ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, I (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969), nos 87, 2382.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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