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Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 2
- Record Id:
- 041-001103707
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000031
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060648946.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1, f 2
- Title:
- Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
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This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.25, imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103705
041-001103707 - 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 2 : Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum (fragment) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1166]/040-001103705[0002]/041-001103707
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton Cleopatra A III/1
- 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 Cleopatra A III, which was possibly made at St Augustine's.
Joseph Holland (d. 1605): inscribed with his name and dated 1604 (Cotton Cleopatra A III, f. 117r).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: owner. 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 Cleopatra A III in March 1870 and bound as f. 2 of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*, together with a leaf from Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX, (f. 1). The volume is now renamed Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/I.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A III*, f 2
- 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, II, Great Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2nd edn., 1972), no. 184.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)