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Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 1
- Record Id:
- 041-001103706
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000030
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060648946.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 1
- Title:
- Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
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This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23) (imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103705
041-001103706 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1 : Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23, iii.25, imperfect)
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 1 : Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1166]/040-001103705[0001]/041-001103706
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Parchment fragment
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_A_III/1 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Northumbria)
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: this folio was used as flyleaves for Cotton Vitellius A XIX, which may be the collection of texts pertaining to Cuthbert mentioned in one of St Augustine's medieval booklists (ed. by Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's (2008), I, p. 604).
John Leland (c.1503–1552), poet and antiquary: annotated by him (Cotton Vitellius A XIX, ff. 2v, 4r, etc.)
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed with his name (Cotton Vitellius A XIX, f. 9r).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton. Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
Removed from Cotton MS Vitellius A xix and bound as f. 1 of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*, together with a leaf from Cotton MS Cleopatra A III (f. 2) in 1870. The volume is now renamed Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/I.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*
- Information About Copies:
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Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores, II, Great Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2nd edn., 1972), no. 184.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bishop, T. A. M., ‘Notes on Cambridge manuscripts. Part V: MSS. connected with St Augustine’s Canterbury (continued)’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1959–63), p. 93.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, II, Latin (London, 1884), p. 50.
Lowe, E.A., Codices Latini Antiquiores (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1934-66), II, no. 184.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)