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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 111r–119v
- Record Id:
- 041-001103656
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x00000b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060747426.0x000006
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 111r–119v
- Title:
- Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii); coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This item is identical in script and format to ff. 16-29, together comprising quires I, II and VII of the same original codex.
These folios contain:
ff. 111r–119r: Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii);
f. 119r: a coronation-charter of King Henry I of England (1100–1135) (imperfect).
Decoration: 3 initials in red with penwork (f. 111r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103650
041-001103656 - 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 111r–119v : Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii); coronation charter of King Henry… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1153]/040-001103650[0006]/041-001103656
- 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:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England: the same scribe may also have written parts of Cotton MS Titus A IX (containing Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia), which has been associated with the Augustinian abbey of Haughmond, Shropshire (see Brett, 'John Leland' (1988), p. 69).
Provenance:
Sir Simonds D'Ewes, first baronet (1602–1650), diarist and antiquary: copied De contemptu mundi (see Harley MS 64, ff. 136r-145r and Henry, Historia (1996), p. xxiii n. 1).
Sir John Prise (b. 1501/2, d. 1555), administrator and scholar: owned; copied extracts in his commonplace book (see Henry, Historia (1996), p. lxxiv n. 68).
William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), historian and herald: annotated by him (f. 29v; see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 205).
Roger Dodsworth (bap. 1585, d. 1654), antiquary: copied extracts (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dodsworth 90, ff. 130r-v and Henry, Historia (1996), p. xxiii n. 1).
- Publications:
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Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum: The History of the English People, ed. and trans. by Diana Greenway (Oxford, 1996), pp. xxiii, lxxiv–lxxv, cxxvii–cxxviii, 840–41.
Richard Sharpe (ed.), 'Henry I's coronation charter (Hn cor)', Early English Laws, website (accessed 11 January 2016) [http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/laws/texts/hn-cor/] [includes edition].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)