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Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280
- Record Id:
- 041-001103881
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000095
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060760322.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280
- Title:
- Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain Middle English hagiographies and a Latin chronicle of Wilton abbey:
ff. 199r–263r: a verse Life of St Edith (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 243);
ff. 263r–264v: a chronicle of Wilton Abbey;
ff. 265r–279v: a Life of St Æthelthryth (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3090);
f. 280r: blank;
f. 280v: a list of books and other things, with the names Robert and Richard Wyham.
Decoration: Initial in red and blue (f. 199r). Sketch of a creature (f. 248r). Initials in black with penwork decoration. Lines and other markings in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103878
041-001103881 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Faustina B III : List of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775); Regularis Concordia; Life of St Edith; Chronicle of…
Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280 : Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1240]/040-001103878[0003]/041-001103881
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Faustina_B_III_ (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: The Benedictine convent of Wilton: includes its chronicle.
Provenance:
Robert and Richard Wyham: inscribed with their names in a late medieval or early modern hand (f. 280v).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Black, G. H. (ed.), Chronicon Vilodunense; sive de vita et miraculis sanctæ Edithæ Regis Edgari Filiæ carmen vetus Anglicum, e codice unico Cottoniano nunc in lucem editum (London: Nichols, 1802) [includes edition].
Boffey, Julia and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005) nos 243, 3090.
Dockray-Miller, Mary, Saints Edith and Æthelthryth- Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience: The Wilton Chronicle and the Wilton Life of St Æthelthryth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), p. 8.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 198.
Horstmann, C. (ed.), St Editha sive Chronicon Vilodunense im Wiltshire Dialekt, aus Ms. Cotton Faustina B III (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1883) [includes edition].
Scahill, John and Margaret Rogerson, Middle English Saints' Legends,Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature, 8 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), nos 9, 546, 579-81, 602.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)