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Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 129–197
- Record Id:
- 041-001103797
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000064
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066406735.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 129–197
- Title:
- Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 129v: A table of contents written by a 15th-century hand.
ff. 130r-197v: Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (Collection of Wonderful Things).
Decoration:
Large decorated initial at the beginning in red and green (f. 130r). Decorated initials in red and green. Simple initials in red and green. Paraph marks in red and green. Rubrics in red. Several letters highlighted in red. Glosses in margin framed in red or green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103793
041-001103797 - 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 129–197 : Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1205]/040-001103793[0004]/041-001103797
- 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:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 245 x 180 mm (text space: 180 x 110 mm).
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Canterbury, England.
Provenance:
The first initial (f. 130r) and the decoration suggest that the manuscript may have been made at St Augustine, Canterbury (see Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (1999), no. 375).
John Feild (b. c 1520, d. 1587) astrologer and compiler of almanac: inscribed with his name (f. 130r).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Julius Solinus, Gaius, fl 3rd century ,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083818625,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51672454 - Subjects:
- Science
- Places:
- Canterbury, England