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Cotton MS Faustina C I, ff 94–123
- Record Id:
- 041-001103915
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366942.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina C I, ff 94–123
- Title:
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The Rule of St Benedict
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 94r-123r: The Rule of St Benedict [Regula Sancti Benedicti], entitled: ‘Admonitio Sancti Benedicti Abbatis Ad Monachos’.
Decoration:
1 large (6-line) arabesque green initial with penwork decoration in red and purple (f. 94r); large (3- or 4-line) arabesque initials in green, purple, or red with penwork decoration in the same colour or in the two opposing colours throughout; small (1-line) simple initials in green, purple, or red (ff. 95v-96r). Incipits in red or brown display script.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103912
041-001103915 - 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 94–123 : The Rule of St Benedict - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1247]/040-001103912[0003]/041-001103915
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton 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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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: Approximately 305 × 205 mm.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
- Publications:
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Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 100 (no. 387).
Michael Gullick, ‘Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England’, in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 7, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (London: The British Library, 1998), pp. 1-24.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedict of Nursia, Saint, Abbot of Montecassino, 480-c 547,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455425858,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100179656 - Places:
- England