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Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82
- Record Id:
- 041-001103795
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000062
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066406735.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82
- Title:
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De architectura; Extracts from Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini; Vitalis's epitaph
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 2r: A page-title written by a modern hand: 'Vitruvius/ Vegetius, de re militari'.
f. 2v: Preface of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura followed by a table of chapters numbered in Roman numerals.
ff. 3r-82r: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (About Architecture) (10 books) beginning: 'Architecturi est scientia pluribus disciplina'. Several later notes in the margin.
f. 82v: Added extract (late 11th century) from Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Abirdgments from the sentences of St Augustine), followed by Vitalis's epitaph.
Decoration:
Simple initials in red. Rubrics and roman numerals in red. Letters highlighted in red. Headings with the number of books (ff. 10r-82r). Modern foliation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103793
041-001103795 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I : Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti…
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82 : Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De architectura; Extracts from Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1205]/040-001103793[0002]/041-001103795
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra D I
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 245 x 180 mm (text space: 180 x 135 mm).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
English and Continental scribes may have collaborated for this part of the manuscript (see Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (1999), p. 38).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: cited in its 15th-century catalogue as 'Victruvius de Architectura 2o fo. Architecturi in eodem libro, Vegecius de re militari cum A' and bound with Vegetius, De re militari (now ff. 83-128) by this date (see James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (1903), p. 519 and Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1498/?search_term=Cotton%20MS%20Cleopatra%20D.I&page_size=500 [accessed 11 August 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Prosper of Aquitaine, Saint, c 390-c 463,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122799501,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/52485706
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus, fl 40 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012130962X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/46768430 - Subjects:
- Classical Literature
Science
Theology - Places:
- France