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Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58
- Record Id:
- 041-001103757
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000049
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060663571.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58
- Title:
- Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles' Creed
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain Old English homilies and liturgy in Old English, possibly created for Bishop Leofric and his cathedral at Exeter in about the 3rd quarter of the 11th century.
ff. 2r–55v: Old English Homilies, included some from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, some from the Vercelli Book, and some attributed to Archbishop Wulfstan;
ff. 56r-57r: Coronation oath;
f. 58r-v: Old English translations of the Pater noster and Creed (58r–v).
Decoration: large initial in green (f. 2r); three large initials in red (f. 8r, 13r, 57v); rubrics and display capitals in red (f. 13r); other initials of varying sizes throughout, including initials in what seems to be oxidized red (ff. 38r, 44r, 56r-v); letters filled in with a colour wash (ff. 41v-50r, 57v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103756
041-001103757 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII : Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory…
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58 : Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles'… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1192]/040-001103756[0001]/041-001103757
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII (parchment codex)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_B_XIII (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1074
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Exeter Cathedral: These folios' script suggests it was produced by the circle of Leofric, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1072), by at least seven scribes in the 3rd quarter of the 11th century. These folios may have, at one time, formed one volume with London, Lambeth Palace, MS 489 (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 182; for a proposed original collation, see Treharne, 'Bishop's Book' (2009), p. 528).
Provenance:
Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbishop of Canterbury: the table of contents of f. 1v was copied by his scribes (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 184); inherited by his son, Sir John Parker.
Sir John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), Member of Parliament: inscribed with his name (f. 2r).
John Joscelin (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: inscribed with note, now partially damaged, that '... was the beginning of a greate booke' (f. 13). The folios in the Lambeth manuscript may therefore have already been separated from these folios by the mid-16th century.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Clayton, Mary, 'The Old English Promissio Regis', Anglo-Saxon England, 37 (2008), 91-105 (pp. 96-100) [includes edition of coronation oath].
Conner, Patrick, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth Century Cultural History (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), p. 5.
Da Rold, Orietta and others (eds), The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, electronic book (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Cleo.B.xiii.htm.
Bethurum, Dorothy (ed.), The Homilies of Wulfstan, ed. by Dorothy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 7, 242-50 [includes partial edition of some of the homilies].
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. 322.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 144.
Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 82.
Napier, A.S. (ed.), Wulfstan. Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien nebst Untersuchungen über ihre Echtheit, 2nd edn (Dublin and Zurich, 1967), pp. 130, 182-90 [includes edition of some of the homilies].
Orchard, Andrew, 'Wulfstan as Reader, Writer, and Rewriter', in The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice and Appropriation, ed. by Aaron Kleist (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007),pp. 311-41 (p. 323).
Scragg, Donald (ed.), The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts, Early English Text Society, original series 300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. xxxiii.
Swan, Mary, 'Memorialised Readings: Manuscript Evidence for Old English Homily Composition', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed. by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 205-18.
Treharne, Elaine, 'Bishops and their Texts in the Later Eleventh Century: Worcester and Exeter', in Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century, ed. by Wendy Scase (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 13-28 (pp. 17, 20, 24).
Treharne, Elaine, 'The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book', in Text, image, interpretation: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature and its insular context in honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin, ed. by Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 253-66.
Treharne, Elaine, 'The Bishop's Book: Leofric's Homiliary and Eleventh-Century Exeter', in Early Medieval Studies in memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. by Stephen Baxter and others (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 521-37.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 524.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)