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Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 11

Record Id:

041-001103666

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

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SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060740244.0x000005

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ISAD(G)

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Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 11

Title:

Extracts from an Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet

Scope & Content:

This folio includes extracts from Book 4, 1, and 2 of an Old English translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, copied in the last quarter of the 9th century or 1st quarter of the 10th century. A runic alphabet was added to the verso, with names of a few of the runes. In the last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century, notes on the names and values of most of the runes were added (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 151). In the 16th century, Robert Talbot added further notes about the runes (f. 11v).

Decoration: Initials in black, filled with yellow and oxidised red, decorated with dots and penwork flourishes (f. 1r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103661
041-001103666

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A IX : Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,…

Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 11 : Extracts from an Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet

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032-001101582[1154]/040-001103661[0005]/041-001103666

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Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

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Languages:

English, Old

Scripts:

Latin
Runic

Start Date:

0875

End Date:

1124

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 12th century

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Custodial History:

Origin: England (? Kent or ? St Paul’s Cathedral, London): one of the extracts has been altered so that only the bishop of London, Mellitus, is described being consecrated by St Augustine, whereas in Bede's original text St Augustine consecrates two bishops (see Sisam, Studies in the History of Old English Literature (1953), p. 18 and Whitelock, Some Anglo-Saxon Bishops (1975), pp. 16-17).

Provenance:

Late 11th or early 12th century: names of runes added (f. 1v).

Robert Talbot (b. c. 1505, d. 1558), antiquary: his added notes (f. 1v).

Information About Copies:

Reproduced in Bateley, Janet, facs. ed., The Tanner Bede, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, XXIV (Copenhagen, 1992), plate IV and the two following black-and-white plates.

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Publications:

Bately, Janet M. (ed.), The Tanner Bede: The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesia, Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 10, together with the Mediaeval Binding Leaves, Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 10 and the Domitian Extracts, London, British Library Cotton Domitian A. IX fol. 11, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 24 (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1992), pp. 37–39.

Derolez, R., Runica Manuscripta: The English Tradition, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken Uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, 118 (Bruges: De Tempel, 1954), pp. 2–16, 263–64.

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 330.

Graham, Timothy, ‘Robert Talbot’s “Old Saxonice Bede”: Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.3.18 and the “Alphabetum Norwagicum” of British Library, Cotton MSS, Domitian A. IX’, in Books and Collectors 1200-1700: Essays presented to Andrew Watson, ed. by James P. Carley and Colin G. C. Tite (London, 1997), pp. 295–316.

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 151.

Laistner, M. L. W. and H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, NY, 1943), p. 112.

Miller, T., ed., The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of The English People, Early English Text Society, Original Series 95, 96, 110, 111, 4 pts, 2 vols (1890-98; London: Oxford University Press, 1959-63).

Sisam, Kenneth, Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953), p. 18.

Whitelock, Dorothy, Some Anglo-Saxon Bishops of London, Chambers Memorial Lecture (London, 1975; repr. London: Variorum, 1981), pp. 16-17.

Zupitza, Julius, 'Drei alte Excerpte aus Älfreds Beda', Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, 30 (1886), 185-86.

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