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Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, ff 3–69
- Record Id:
- 041-001103715
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000035
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064193290.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, ff 3–69
- Title:
- Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey, AD 1–1062, 1066–1263 (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-8v: A chronicle from the conception of Christ until the year 1062
ff. 9r-62v: A chronicle of Tewkesbury, 1066-1262 (‘Tewkesbury I’).
ff. 63r-69v: A chronicle of Tewkesbury, 1258 to 1263 (‘Tewkesbury II’).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 61r: A history of the city of Gloucester (crossed out), written in Middle English, beginning 'This Cytie was callid by the Romans Glevum’, added in a 15th-century script.
[f. 58v is blank].
Decoration:
2 tables in red and blue for years and days of months on ff. 9r-20v. Medium initials in red, blue or green. Small (one-line) initials highlighted in red. Roman numerals in red or blue. Paraph markers in red. Rubrics in red, one in green (f. 69r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103713
041-001103715 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII : Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle…
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, ff 3–69 : Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey, AD 1–1062,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1170]/040-001103713[0002]/041-001103715
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1274
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 175 x 125 mm (text space: 150 x 75 mm [ff. 3v-8v]; 145-150 x 60 mm [ff. 9r-31r]; 150 x 90 [ff. 31v-69v]).
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tewkesbury, Southwestern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury: this part of the manuscript contains the abbey’s annals (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 188).
?St Loe Kniveton (b. c. 1560, d. 1625), antiquary of Derbyshire: perhaps identifiable with a ‘book of Tewskesbury [sic] [...] wherein is an authentic historical observation of the times [up to] 1261’ that Kniveton, according to Cotton MS Julius C III (f. 227r), offered to Cotton in December 1620; selections of Tewkesbury Abbey’s annals are printed in Augustine Vincent, A Discoverie of Errours in the First Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility (London: Jaggard, 1622), pp. 220, 317, where the source is identified as ‘Lib. Theokesbur. MS. in custodia S. Loo Knyveton. Ar.’ (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), pp. 208-09).
?John Selden (b. 1584, d. 1654), lawyer and historical and linguistical scholar: according to Cotton’s loan catalogue, he had acquired the manuscript from Selden (Annales de Tewxbury I had of Mr Selden lent to Mr Vincent’). In order to resolve the seemingly conflicting information about how Cotton acquired Tewkesbury Abbey’s annals, Tite suggests that Selden’s manuscript may have contained the cartulary instead of the annals (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), pp. 208-09).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- History
- Places:
- Tewkesbury, England