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Egerton MS 809
- Record Id:
- 032-001983870
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983870
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x00039e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 809
- Title:
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Gospel Lectionary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Gospel lectionary, with readings from the Bible for use at Mass throughout the year, including the Temporale or movable feasts and the Sanctorale or feast days of the major saints.
Decoration:
4 full-page framed miniatures in colours and gold of the Nativity, the Holy Women at the Tomb, the Ascension, and Pentecost (ff. 1v, 27v, 33v, 35v). 2 large historiated initials of the Last Supper and Christ giving the keys to Peter with a dragon making up part of the letter (ff. 17r, 41r). 32 large initials in colours and gold, some with clasps, foliate decoration, animal heads, or other zoomorphic elements. Decorated incipit in gold letters in a framed border of the beginning of John's Gospel, 'In principio erat verbum..' (f. 3v). Small initials in gold or red, some on coloured grounds. Incipits in gold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983870", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 809: Gospel Lectionary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983870
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983870
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 50 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_809 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1125
- Date Range:
- 1100-1125
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm (text space: 160 x 110/5 mm).
Foliation: ff. 50 + 1* (f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf + five unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning, and 3 unfoliated parchment leaves and 1 fragment, and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end + 29 unfoliated modern parchment interleaves inserted between folios with decoration).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1967. A former 15th-century binding of blue velvet with an inlaid painted wood panel of saints in colours on a gold ground on the upper cover is kept separately as Egerton MS 809/1.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany, S. (Swabia, possibly Hirsau).
Provenance:
?The abbey of St Maximin at Trier, or Swabia, South Germany, possibly Hirsau (see Backhouse, The Illuminated Page (1997), no. 23).
A fragment containing Latin text in a 13th-century hand is attached to the verso of the final parchment flyleaf (f. [x]).
f. [v] has a paper paste-down containing a 19th- or 20th-century handwritten description of this manuscript.
Purchased at Sotheby's, 30 May 1840, lot 289, for £23.2s. 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)). See Sir Frederic Madden's notes on the acquisition of this manuscript and Egerton MS 810 on 30 May 1840 in Additional MS 62002.
- Information About Copies:
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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), 1840, p. 15.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 153-54.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Georg Swarzenski, Die Salzburger Malerei, 2 vols (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1913), I, p. 36 n. 5.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 3.
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), pp. 59 n. 5, 82, 95, pls 102c, 111e, 137d.
D. H. Turner, Romanesque Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 19-20, pl. 11.
Die Ottonische Kolner Malerschule, ed. by Peter Bloch and Hermann Schnitzler, 2 vols (Dusseldorf: L. Schwann, 1967), II: Textband, p. 100.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 23.
Andrea Worm, 'Steine und Fußspuren Christi auf dem Ölberg. Zu zweiungewöhnlichen Motiven bei Darstellungen der Himmelfahrt Christi', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 66 (2003), 297-330 (pp. 297-98).
Canossa 1077: Erschütterung der Welt, ed. by Christoph Stiegemann and Matthias Wemhoff, 2 vols (Munich: Hirmer, 2006), II, no. 399 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 3 and 79, fig. 66.
John Lowden, 'Treasures Known and Unknown in the British Library', Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Virtual Exhibition, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourKnownC.asp, accessed 27 May 2017.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)