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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 95r–110v
- Record Id:
- 041-001103655
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x00000a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060747426.0x000007
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 95r–110v
- Title:
- Quadripartitus (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain the oldest surviving copy of the Quadripartitus, a collection of laws-- particularly Latin translations of pre-Conquest lawcodes-- compiled in early twelfth-century England. It is also the only manuscript of the Quadripartitus to contain all known prefaces. It ends imperfectly.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103650
041-001103655 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII : Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of…
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 95r–110v : Quadripartitus (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1153]/040-001103650[0005]/041-001103655
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Domitian_A_viii (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? West Midlands: see Wormald, Legal Culture (1999), p. 84).
Provenance:
? William Fleetwood (b. c. 1525, d. 1594), lawyer and antiquary: owned, according to various early modern correspondence (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 205).
- Publications:
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Liebermann, F. (ed.), Quadripartitus, ein Englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114 (Halle, 1892).
Liebermann, F. (ed.), Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Halle, 1903-1916), I, pp. 529-46.
Sharpe, Richard, ‘The prefaces of “Quadripartitus”’, in Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt, ed. by George Garnett and John Hudson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 148–72.
Wormald, Patrick, ‘“Quadripartitus”’, in Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt, ed. by George Garnett and John Hudson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 111–47.
Wormald, Patrick, Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West: Law as Text, Image and Experience (London: Hambledon, 1999), pp. 83-84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)