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London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A i Miscellany

  • Latin
  • s. x/xiiin + s. xiii and later composite manuscript
  • English manuscripts, Welsh manuscripts
  • vellum
Composite manuscript. The first 55 folios contains English (especially Anglo-Latin) material written between the 10th and early 12th centuries. The subsequent folios (ff. 56-160) belong to a manuscript of St David's from 13th century and later.
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Cotton manuscripts
Shelfmark
Cotton Domitian A i
Type
histories
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. x/xiiin + s. xiii and later
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
composite manuscript
Material
vellum
Distinct units
f. 2r–f. 37r

Part I (a), containing: f. 2r Bede, De natura rerum (Book 2 only); ff. 3r–36v: Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum.

f. 37v–f. 39v

Part II.

f. 40–f. 54v

Part III.

f. 55v

Part I(b): A medical recipe.

f. 55v

Addition: booklist.

f. 56r–f. 160v
London, British Library, …  ff. 56-160 [s. xiii4/4]
Table of contents
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Texts

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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
English manuscripts, Welsh manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.
direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241, Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001.
[id. 326.]
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
[id. 146.]
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2014, last updated: October 2023
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