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Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
- Record Id:
- 041-001607560
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001990.0x000339
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060439531.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
- Title:
- Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
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This codex contains:
f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century;
ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of the 13th century;
ff. 229r-235v: a collection of texts on coronations and other issues, including De indulgencia apud assisium, Coronatio Edwardi secundi and La maniere comment le roy sera coronee, copied in the 14th century;
ff. 236r-291v: A vita of St Edward the Confessor by Aelred of Rievaulx (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2423), a vita of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury by Edward Grim (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8182) and a vita of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury (compare Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2405), copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103026
041-001607560 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII : Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C XII
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2 : Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, f 157 : Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 158-228 : Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (Quadrilogus II)
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 229-235 : De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 236-291 : Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund…
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- 032-001101582[0840]/040-001103026[0003]/041-001607560
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060439531.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: Cotton Vitellius C XII/2 binding 340 x 270 mm (text space maximum 225 x 155 mm).
Foliation: ff. 157-291 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Binding: BM/BL inhouse, rebound in 1964.
- Custodial History:
- Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton. Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 2
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 8194.
Duggan, Anne J., Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 111, 136.
Haines, R. M., King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1294-1330, pp. 380n, 385n.
Hoste, Anselm, Bibliotheca Aelrediana (Steenbrugis: Abbatia Sancti Petri, 1962), p. 180.
Lawrence, C. H., St Edmund of Abingdon: A Study in Hagiography and History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), pp. 50, 327.
Staunton, Michael, Thomas Becket and his Biographers (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), p. 29.
Richardson, H.G. and G.O. Sayles, 'Early English Coronation Records', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 16 (1938-39), 1-11 (pp. 8-10) [includes partial edition].
Rothwell, H. (ed.), English Historical Documents 3, 1189-1327 (London: Spottiswoode and Eyre, 1975), p. 291.
Watson, A. G., 'Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, ed. by Malcolm B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London: Scolar Press, 1978), p. 310.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)