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Cotton MS Faustina C I, ff 66–93
- Record Id:
- 041-001103914
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x0000af
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366942.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina C I, ff 66–93
- Title:
- Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, De messe infelici; Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 66r: Rhigyfarch [Ricemarchus] ap Sulien (b. 1057, d. 1099), Planctus [Lament of Ricemarch].
f. 66v: A note on Cicero's De re publica.
ff. 67r-68r: Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis [excerpted from his De re publica].
ff. 67r-93r: Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis.
f. 80r (upper margin): Rhigyfarch [Ricemarchus] ap Sulien, De messe infelici.
ff. 93r-93v: Chronicle of World History, AM 1–AD 750, organised according to the Six Ages of Mankind, beginning: ‘Prima aetas mundi continet annos iuxta hebreos .Mille. .DCLVI.’.
Decoration:
Marginal scientific diagrams in black and red ink (ff. 70v-72v, 79r, 80v, 81r, 82v, 85v, 86v, 87v, 89r). 1 large (5-line) red arabesque initial highlighted in yellow (f. 66r); 1 large (5-line) red initial with minor decoration (f. 82v); small (2-line) simple initials in green, purple, red, some with minor arabesque penwork decoration; small (1-line) initials highlighted in green or red. Incipits in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103912
041-001103914 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Faustina C I : Cartulary of Huntingdon Priory; Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus Ricemarch; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius,…
Cotton MS Faustina C I, ff 66–93 : Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, Planctus; Cicero, In Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1247]/040-001103912[0002]/041-001103914
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Cotton MS Faustina C I
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: Approximately 305 × 205 mm.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales.
Provenance:
The Benedictine Priory of Llanbadarn Fawr (near Aberystwyth), re-founded as a cell of St Peter's, Gloucester, in the early 12th century and dissolved around 1135: Rhigyfarch ap Sulien, whose work is preserved in this manuscript, was based at Llanbadarn Fawr.
- Publications:
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Alfred Hiatt, 'The Map of Macrobius before 1100’, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 59:2 (2007), 149-76 (pp. 169 n. 29, 171 [Appendix I], no 21).
Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 11, 120-21.
Michael Lapidge, ‘The Welsh-Latin Poetry of Sulien’s Family’, Studia Celtica, 8-9 (1973-74), 88-93 (pp. 89-93).
Hugh Jackson Lawlor, The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch, Henry Bradshaw Society, 1 (1914), p. 121.
Alison Peden, ‘Science and Philosophy in Wales at the Time of the Norman Conquest: A Macrobius Manuscript from Llabadarn’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 2 (1981), 21-45.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Rhigyfarch [Ricemarchus] ap Sulien, c 1056-1099,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000375032544
Theodosius Macrobius, Ambrosius, c 370-c 435,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011624565X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39387062
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales