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Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 83–128
- Record Id:
- 041-001103796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000063
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066406735.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 83–128
- Title:
- Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De Re Militari
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 83r-83v: Table of contents for the 4 books of Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De Re Militari (Concerning Military Matters) followed by the table of chapters of the 1st book.
ff. 83v-91v: Vegetius, De Re Militari, 1st book.
ff. 92r-101r: Vegetius, De Re Militari, 2nd book, preceded by a table of chapters (f. 92r).
ff. 101r-118r: Vegetius, De Re Militari, 3rd book, preceded by a table of chapters (ff. 101r-v).
ff. 118r-128v: Vegetius, De Re Militari, 4th book, preceded by a table of chapters (ff. 118r-119r).
Decoration:
The initials and some rubrics have been added later as well as the first sentence of each chapter which is highlighted in red. Initials in red, green and yellow, some of them added later with decoration (e. g. ff. 86v, 87r, 114v-115r). Rubrics and Roman numerals in red. Chapter numbers in Roman numerals in the margin. Headings written by pencil. A drawing of a dragon in the lower margin in green (the same green ink is used for the added initials).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103793
041-001103796 - 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 83–128 : Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De Re Militari - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1205]/040-001103793[0003]/041-001103796
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra D I
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1024
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 245 x 180 mm (text space: 170 x 125 mm).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or Germany.
Provenance:
This part of the manuscript may have been produced in England or Germany (see Gameson, 'England and the Continent' (2012), p. 361 n. 68).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: cited in its 15th-century catalogue with Vitruvius, De architectura (ff. 3r-83v) as 'Victruvius de Architectura 2o fo. Architecturi in eodem libro, Vegecius de re militari cum A' (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:
- Vegetius Renatus, Flavius, c 383-c 450,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117771731,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/163344563 - Subjects:
- Science
- Places:
- England
Germany