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Add MS 54215
- Record Id:
- 032-001959701
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001959701
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x000038
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 54215
- Title:
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Leaf from the Oscott Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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A single leaf detached from the Psalter known as the Oscott Psalter, Add MS 50000. The leaf either preceded or concluded the prefatory cycle in the Psalter. It includes two full-page miniatures in colours and gold:
f. 1r: A seated ecclesiastic wearing a mitre, cope and gloves, perhaps an intended portrait of the owner of the manuscript, identified by Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969) as the Papal Legate to England, Cardinal Ottobuono Fieschi (see discussion Morgan, Early Gothic (1988)).
f. 1v: The Tree of Jesse.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-001959701
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001959701
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 parchment folio.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_54215 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Undetermined
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1270
- Date Range:
- c 1265-1270
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm.
Foliation: 1 leaf.
Binding: Unbound.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, South (Oxford?).
Provenance:
Leaf from the Oscott Psalter, perhaps written by William, or alternatively he was the author of the paraphrase of the Psalms: colophon: 'Willelme ki me escrit / Seit de deu beneit / Kil nul a rachete. Est li doint la grace. Kil maigne vant la face kant sera trepasse' (Add. MS 50000, f. 215r).
The calendar of the Oscott Psalter include Saints Modwena, Edith of Polesworth, Oswald and Milburga, suggesting a patron in the West Midlands with interest in religious houses of Burton-upon-Trent and Polesworth which possessed relics of St Modwena and St Edith; the litany includes William of York and the Oxford Saint Frideswide (see Morgan, Early Gothic (1988)).
? Cardinal Ottobuono Fieschi (d. 1276), Papal Legate to England (1265-1268), elected Pope as Adrian V in 1276: according to Turner the entries in the calendar for the Apparition of St Michael and St Agatha, venerated in southern Italy, both written in gold might suggest a patron with Italian interests; the leaf includes an image of an ecclesiastic wearing a mitre and a cope (without a pallium or crosier) and identified by Turner as possible portrait of Cardinal Fieschi (see Turner Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)).
The Benedictine Abbey of St Lawrence, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, founded in 1802: acquired from the abbey by the British Museum (subsequently the British Library) on 14 October 1967.
- Source of Acquisition:
- The Benedictine Abbey of St Lawrence, Ampleforth, Yorkshire.
- Administrative Context:
- England, South (Oxford?) .
- Publications:
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U. Chevalier, Repertorium hymnologicum, 6 vols (Louvain 1892-1912, Brussels 1920-1921), I (Louvain, 1892), no. 2037.
G. M Dreves, Psalteria rhythmica: Gereimte Psalterien des Mittelalters, Analecta hymnica medii aevi, 35 (Leipzig, 1900), pp. 189-91.
G. Warner, Descriptive Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of C. W. Dyson Perrins (Oxford, 1920), no. 11, pp. 40-47.
T. J. Brown, G. M. Meredith-Owens, D. H. Turner, 'Manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins Collection', British Museum Quarterly, 23 (1961), 27-38 (p. 31).
[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), pls 11, 12.
Florens Deuchler, Der Ingeborgpsalter (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967), p. 51.
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 18.
Bruce Watson, 'The Place of the Cuerden Psalter in English Illumination', Gesta, 9 (1970), 34-41 (p. 39).
D. H. Turner, 'Two Rediscovered Miniatures of the Oscott Psalter', British Museum Quarterly, 34 (1969-70), 10-19.
G. Henderson, 'Studies in English Manuscript Illumination, III: The English Apocalypse: II', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 31 (1968), 103-147 (pp. 145-47).
Philippe Verdier, Peter Brieger, and Marie Farquhar, Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, The National Gallery of Canada, 27 April-2 July 1972 (Ottowa: National Galley of Canada, 1972), p. 62, fig. 54.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 32.
Richard Marks and Nigel Morgan, The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981), pls 14, 15.
The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), no. 352. [exhibition catalogue].
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), II: 1250-1285, no.151(a) [with further bibliography].
Claire Donovan, The de Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford (London, British Library, 1991), p. 204, no. 37.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 69.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 449.
John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 212, 260, 276 n. 121, fig 139.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 71-72.
Nigel Morgan, ‘The Decorative Ornament of the Text and Page in Thirteenth-century England: Initials, Border Extensions and Line Fillers’, in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 1-33 (p. 6).
Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), figs. 45-46.
Paul Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), pl. 178.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 182.
Nigel Morgan, 'The Trinity Apocalypse: Style, Dating and Place of Production', in The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2) (London: British Library, 2005), pp. 23-43 (p. 27, figs 33-34).
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 116, fig. 103.
Rodney M. Thomson and others, 'Technology of Production of the Manuscript Book', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge: University Press, 1999- ), II: 1100-1400, ed. by Nigel Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson (2008), pp. 75-109 (p. 94).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)