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Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v
- Record Id:
- 041-001103711
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000032
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v
- Title:
- Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De formis qualiter causarum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a series of grammatical treatises and a poem. It includes:
ff. 2r–31r: Donatus, Ars maior;
ff. 31v–47r: Interrogationes;
ff. 47r–48r: a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon (Schaller and Köngsen, Initia (1977), no. 5725);
ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum.
Decoration: damaged foliate initials in various colours (f. 2r); decorative capitals (f. 2r); initials in black with foliate details and beasts' heads (ff. 10r, 11r, 14r, 16r, 17v, 19r-v, 20v, 22r, 23r, 31v): initial in the shape of a beast (f.17r); drawings of beasts' heads in the margin (f. 21r); initials in black (ff. 34r, 27v, 33r, 34r, 47r-48v); initials and rubrics in oxidised red (ff. 37v, 48v-49v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103710
041-001103711 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI : Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis…
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI, ff 2r–53v : Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1169]/040-001103710[0001]/041-001103711
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_A_VI (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0930
- End Date:
- 0970
- Date Range:
- Mid 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Wales or ? Western England (see Ganz, 'Square Minuscule' (2012), p. 195).
- Publications:
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Dumville, David, 'English Square minuscule script: the mid-century phases', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), 133-64 (p. 139).
Gameson, Richard, 'The decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992), 115-59 (pp. 127, 131, 140, 142, 147).
Ganz, David, 'Square Minuscule' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 188-96 (p. 195).
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 321.
Law, Vivien, Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages (London: Longman, 1997), pp. 202, 276.
Schaller, Dieter, and Ewald Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum: Bibliographisches Repertorium für die lateinische Dichtung der Antike und des früheren Mittelalters (Göttingen, 1977), no. 5725.
Temple, Elzbieta, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 27.
Wormald, Francis, Collected Writings I: Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, ed. by J.J.G. Alexander, T.J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 59.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)