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Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v
- Record Id:
- 042-003315166
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100032519188.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061693648.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v
- Title:
- Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain Usuard's Martyrologium (ff 114r–155r), organized by the calendar year, and confraternity notes of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (ff 155r–156v), copied in the very late 11th or early 12th century. Obits and other notes have been added to the end of some entries between the 12th and 13th century.
Decoration: Historiated initials with interlace, foliate details, creatures, and human figures in red, green, and blue, including winged creatures (f. 114r), a bearded man with an urn-like vessel (f. 117v), figures with cutting implements and holding a bowl of fish (f. 121r), a cow (f. 127r), a man wrestling a winged creature (f. 134r), a woman (f. 139r), a woman with a set of scales and a winged creature (f. 143v). Display capitals in red and green (ff. 114r, 117v, 121r, 127r, 134r, 139r, 143v). Sketch of a winged creature in black (f. 154r). Initials in red, green, and blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103026
041-001103027
042-003315166 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII : Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C XII
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1 : Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v : Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0840]/040-001103026[0001]/041-001103027[0002]/042-003315166
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- SubItem
- Extent:
- Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 11th century-1st quarter 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: possibly made by the same artist as Arundel 91 (see Wormald, Studies (1984), p. 161); most of the script also resembles that associated with St Augustine's (Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's (2008), III, p. 1619.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: obits and other notices added in the 12th and 13th century throughout.
? Sir Richard St George (d. 1635), herald: inscribed 'Ri... Georgii (f. 114r; see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 165).
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 1, ff 114r-156v
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Gameson, Richard, 'English Manuscript Art in the late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context' in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109 (London: Hambledon, 1995), pp. 95-144 (pp. 101-2, 104, 126, 137, 143).
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: British Academy, 1999), no. 422.
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 405.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 43.
Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 577.
Wormald, Francis, Collected Writings I: Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, ed. by J.J.G. Alexander, T.J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 161.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)