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Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160
- Record Id:
- 041-001103631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0003c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063235372.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160
- Title:
- Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Descriptio Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Retractationes; Gerald of Wales Catalogus brevior librorum suorum; Annales Cambriae; Life of David fitz Gerald (Vita David secundi); Cognacio Brychan.
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 56r-58r: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae, Preface. Rubric: 'Stephano Cantuariensi archiepiscopo in Odoporion Giraldi prefatio prima'. Incipit: 'Sicut variis rerum motibus et mutacionibus tempora moventur'.
ff. 58r-v: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae. Table of chapters.
ff. 58v-111r: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae. Rubric: 'Incipit Itinerarium Giraldi Kambrensis, et laboriosa cantuariensis archiepiscopi Baldwini per William legatio. Prefatio secunda'. Incipit: 'Quoniam eaque laudabili devotione gesta noscuntur'. Explicit: 'Ille qui solus via veritas est et vita, via sine offendiculo, veritas sine ambiguo, vita sine fine. Amen. Explicit Itinerarium Giraldi'.
ff. 111v-112v: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae. Preface: Rubric: 'Stephano Cantuariensi archiepiscopo. In Kambrie descriptione prefatio prima'. Incipit: 'Ille ego qui quondam Hybernicam Topographiam cum abditis suius et nature secretis in tribus distinctionibus trienni labore digessi'.
ff. 112v-113r: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae, table of chapters.
ff. 113r-135v: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae. Rubric: 'Prefatio secunda ad eumdem'. Incipit: 'Cum inter varia litterarum studia ad hystorias scribendas studiose mentis aciem applicuerim'. Explicit: 'quicquid de ampliori contingat pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit'.
ff. 135v-136v: Gerald of Wales, Retractationes. Rubric: 'Tractatum retractacionum et cathalogum librorum diligentia Giraldi compositorum in calce libelli de Kambrie descriptione digne diximus a diciendum'. Incipit: 'Quoniam itaque cunctorum habere noticiam'. Explicit: 'periculo et neccesitatis articulo non formidat'.
ff. 136v-137v: Gerald of Wales, Catalogus brevior librorum suorum. Rubric: 'Sequitur de cathalogo et numero librorum a Giraldo compositorum'. Incipit: 'Ocurrit hic igitur in primis tempore tenerior Chronographia nostra et mundi Cosmographia'. Explicit: 'ad eterna felicitatem corona reposita et intercede servata. Explicit'.
f. 138r: Addition by a later hand: 'Incipiunt cronica venerabilis Bede'.
ff. 138r-155r: Annales Cambriae. Incipit: 'Prima die seculi nascentis fecit Deus lucem quam appelavit diem'. Explicit: 'ita quod quasi videbatur sol habere duo cornua sursum elevate, et duravit sic usque ad horam vesperarum'.
ff. 155r-156v: Life of David fitz Gerald (Vita David secundi). Incipit: 'Cum circa dignitatem pallii ecclesie'. Explicit: 'ut tractarent de electione facienda'.
f. 157r: Later addition of an epigram, perhaps by Gerald of Wales. Incipit: 'Mirum ! que Rome a modicos sententia pape Non movet, hic regum sceptra movere potest'. Explicit: 'Cui male sublatus Rome non cederet hortus, Nititur ad nutum flectere regna suum'. Followed by another addition: the Metra de monachis carnalibus, twelve hexameters lines. Incipit: 'Qui nescit quam sit monachorum nobile vulgus?'.
ff. 157v-160r: Cognacio Brychan, ruler of south Wales, and his progeny; copied by Sir John Prise (d. 1555) from a now lost manuscript that had perhaps been written in the 13th century. Rubric: 'Cognacio Brychan unde brecheynia...' Incipit: 'Teudric Rex in Garthmathrim venit usque ad Bryncoyn'
Decoration:
ff. 56-137: Numerous initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour . Secondary letters in red or blue. Rubrics and headings in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
ff. 138-155: Puzzle initial in red and brown (f. 138r). Secondary letters in red throughout. Rubrics in red. Numerous letters highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103629
041-001103631 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A I : Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of…
Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160 : Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Descriptio Cambriae; Gerald of Wales… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1146]/040-001103629[0002]/041-001103631
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Domitian_A_i (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1570
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century-Mid 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210x145mm (text space 65x100mm).
Script: Gothic textualis and cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: St Davids, Wales.
Provenance:
St David's Cathedral in Wales: see Neil R. Ker 'Sir John of Prise', The Library (1955), 1-24.
Sir John of Prise (b. 1501/2, d. 1555), administrator, scholar and collector: his own annotations throughout the Annales Cambrie, one of his notes is dated in 1539 (f. 141r).
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Dimock, James F, (ed.), Giraldi Cambrensis Itinerarium Kambriæ, et Descriptio Kambriæ, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 6, Rolls Series (London, 1868), pp. xv-xvii, lx.
Ker, Neil R, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 169.
Lucas, Peter J, and others, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 5, Latin Manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon Glosses (Tempe AZ, 1997), pp. 35–41.
Planta, Joseph, A catalogue of the manuscripts in the Cottonian Library deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802), p. 572.
Williams, John, (ed.) Annales Cambriæ, Rolls Series 20 (London, 1860), p. xxvii.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)