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Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222

Record Id:

042-003317331

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100034007021.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060882328.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222

Title:

Legendary (imperfect)

Scope & Content:

These folios contain part of a legendary copied in the late 12th or early 13th century, covering saints whose feast days are in May, July, and August. Its contents include:

f. 189r–v: Passio sanctorum Petri, Andree, Pauli et Dionisie martyrum (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6716).

ff. 189v–190v: Passio sancti Peregrini episcopi Autisiodorensis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6623).

ff. 190v–192r: Vita beate Framehildis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3091d).

ff. 192r–194r: Passio sancti Torpetis martyris (compare Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8307).

ff. 194r–195r: Passio sancti Dioscori martyris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2203f).

ff. 195r–v: Vita sancte Potentiane (Pudentiane) uirginis (compare Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6991).

ff. 195v–203v: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita sancti Dunstani archiepiscopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2346, interspersed with parts of William of Malmesbury’s Vita S Dunstani; see Lapidge and Thomson, William (2002), pp. 159-60).

ff. 203v–204v: Passio sancti Æthelberti regis (imperfect) (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2628).

ff. 205r–208v: Constantius, Vita sancti Germani Autisiodorensis episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 3453, imperfect).

ff. 208v–209v: Passio sanctorum Machabeorum.

ff. 209v–216v: Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita sancti Æthelwoldi episcopi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2647).

ff. 216v–217v: Passio sancti Felicis martyris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2866e).

ff. 217v–219v: Passio sanctarum Spei, Fidei et Caritatis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2970).

ff. 220r–222v: Passio sancti Stephani pape (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 7845).

Decoration: Initials in red, green, and blue, some with penwork decoration.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102742
041-001102744
042-003317331

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Nero E I : ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton…
Cotton MS Nero E I/2 : ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan…

Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222 : Legendary (imperfect)

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0655]/040-001102742[0002]/041-001102744[0005]/042-003317331

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

SubItem

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1175

End Date:

1225

Date Range:

late 12th-early 13th century

Era:

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Custodial History:

Origin: British Isles

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.

Publications:

Muir, Bernard J. and Andrew J. Turner, Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. xci-ii, cxxii, 42, 69.

Winterbottom, Michael and R. M. Thomson (eds), William of Malmesbury: Saints’ Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 159-60.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)