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Egerton MS 609
- Record Id:
- 032-001983659
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983659
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0002ed
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056032635.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 609
- Title:
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The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus.
ff. 2v-7r: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew, followed by the Eusebian Canon tables (ff. 3v-7r).
ff. 7v-44v: The Gospel of St Matthew preceded by the preface (f. 7v).
ff. 44v-53v: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by the preface (ff. 44v-45r), imperfect.
ff. 54r-77r: The Gospel of St Luke, imperfect at the beginning.
ff. 77v-101v: The Gospel of St John, preceded by the preface (ff. 77v-78r).
ff. 102r-v: Extracts from the Gospel of St John.
Decoration:
Two full-page miniatures of Evangelist portraits of St Mark and St John (ff. 45v, 78v). Canon tables in frames in brown and yellow, some with animal heads (ff. 3v-7r).
Four very large decorated or zoomorphic initials in brown, orange, yellow, and sometimes blue, at the beginning of the text, and of Sts Matthew, Mark, and John (ff. 1r, 8r, 46r, 79r).
Four smaller initials in yellow, orange, brown and sometimes blue, one with zoomorphic features, at the beginning of prefaces (ff. 1r, 2v, 44v, 77v). Highlighing of letters in orange and/or brown or yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983659
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983659
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056032635.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm (text space: 230 x 145 mm)
Foliation: ff. 102 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Red gilt leather with gold-tooled paper; marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Western France or ?Tours, Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Martin at Tours: 15th century ownership inscription 'Iste Liber est de Ecclesia beatissimi Martini Turonensis' (f. 102v).
The Maurist abbey of Marmoutiers, Tours: 18th century ownership inscription 'Majoris monasterii Congregationis S Mauri' (f. 1r), followed by a title, and in the lower margin the number '87'.
Bought in 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
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- Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1836, p. 42.
B. Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004), no. 2433.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-84), Part II, Latin, p. 30.
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 4th edn, ed. by Edward Miller, 2 vols (London: George Bell & Sons, 1894), II, p. 76.
John Chapman, Notes on the Early History of the Vulgate Gospels (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), pp. 49, n. 1, 280 (as 'E').
J. Wordsworth and H. J. White, Novum Testamentum Domini nostri Iesu Christi latine: secundum editionem Sancti Hieronymi, ad codicum manuscriptorum fidem recensuit Iohannes Wordsworth: in operis societatem adsumto Henrico Iuliano White, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889-1935), I, p. xi (designated 'E').
P. McGurk, 'The Gospel Book in Celtic Lands before AD 850: Contents and Arrangement', in Ireland and Christendom: The Bible and the Missions, ed. by Proinseas Ni Chathain and Michael Richter (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987) pp. 165-89 (pp. 176, 189).
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 50.
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Studies in the Script of Tours, 1, 2 vols (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929), I, no. 140; II, pl. 15 [with additional bibliography].
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Review of Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours', Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 321-36 (p. 326).
C. R. Morey, ‘The Gospel-Book of Landevennec: The Illumination of the Landevennec Gospels’, Art Studies: Medieval Renaissance and Modern, 8 (1931), 258-62 (p. 260 n. 3).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 31.
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du Haut Moyen Âge et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), pp. 97-98, pls 140, 143.
Wilhelm Koehler, ‘The Fragments of an Eighth-Century Gospel Book in the Morgan Library (M. 564)', in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, ed. by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), pp. 238-65 (p. 256, as ‘E’).
René Crozet, 'Les représentations anthropo-zoomorphiques des évangelistes dans l'enluminure et dans la peinture murale aux époques carolingienne et romane', Cahiers de civilization médiévale, 1 (1958), 182-91 (p. 184).
Francis Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel Book, ed. by Jonathan Alexander (Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1977), pp. 14 n. 6, 19 n. 3.
J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 1 (London: Harvey Miller, 1978), p. 79.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 127, 134, 251.
Bonifatius Fischer, Beiträge zur Geschichte der lateinischen Bibeltexte, Vetus Latina, 12 (Freiburg: Herder, 1986), pp. 55, 206-07, 224-25, 227-28.
François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), p. 8.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 17* (as 'Be').
Dàibhi ó Cróinín, 'Is the Augsburg Gospel Codex a Northumbrian Manuscript?', in St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to AD 1200, ed. by. Gerald Bonner, David W. Rollason and Clare Stancliffe (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989), pp. 197-98.
Patrick McGurk, ‘The Disposition of Numbers in Latin Eusebian Canon Tables’, in Philologia Sacra: Biblische und patristische Studien für Hermann J. Frede und Walter Thele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Roger Gryson (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 242-58 (pp. 252 n. 26, 255 n. 37).
Richard Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine', in St Augustine and the Conversion of England, ed. by Richard Gameson (Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1999), pp. 285-312 (pp. 290-91, 303) [with additional bibliography].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 39, fig. 26.
David C. Parker, 'The translation of OƳN in the Old Latin Gospels', in Manuscripts, Texts, Theology. Collected Paper 1977-2007, ed. by David C. Parker (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009), p. 176.
Martin McNamara, The Bible and the Apocrypha in the Early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200), Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, Research on the Inheritance of the Early and Medieval Christianity, 66 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2015), pp. 279-280.
H. A. G. Houghton, The Latin New Testament. A Guide to its Early History, Texts and Manuscripts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 74, 77-78, 102, 114 passim.
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, ‘The original Lindisfarne gospels?’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 1-15 (pp. 1, 3).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.