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Egerton MS 857
- Record Id:
- 032-001983924
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983924
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0003cd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056033061.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 857
- Title:
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Roman Gradual
- Scope & Content:
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This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v).
Contents:
ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) with musical notation.
The manuscript contains hymns, written by a contemporary scribe, on two leaves that appear to have been added at a later stage:
f. 57r: Marian chants with musical notation, added by a contemporary scribe, beginning ‘[G]audeamus omnes’.
ff. 57v-58v: Hymns for the Holy Week with with musical notation.
Decoration:
1 large foliate initial with a zoomorphic figure (dragon), filled with red, green, yellow and purple (f. 1r). 1 large initial in red with green penwork decoration (f. 33r). Large and small initials in red (some are oxidized) or green. Rubrics, incipits and letters highlighted with green or red throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983924", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 857: Roman Gradual" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983924
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983924
- 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_100056033061.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 11th century century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm (text space: 195 x 110 mm); ff. 57-58: 250 x 160 mm (190 x 130 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 58 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); a modern paper pastedown on f. [ii] recto; marbled endpapers.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather binding with Egerton’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, re-backed and the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘NOYONS GRADUAL’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Noyon, Northern France.
Provenance:
A church in the area of Noyon, owned in the 11th century: an Alleluia for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai on f. 56v; an office for the dedication of the church between 12 and 19 May on f. 38v.
Joseph Harding and John Lepard (fl. 1831-36), London booksellers: their sale, Evans, London, 13 April 1839, lot 618 (a clipping of the auction catalogue pasted on the inside of the upper cover). Purchased by Henry George Bohn (?).
Henry George Bohn (b. 1796, d. 1884), bookseller, translator and publisher, owned in 1840: see the note on f. [ii] recto.
Bought from Henry George Bohn by the British Museum on 26 September 1840 (note on f. [ii] recto) for £ 4.40, 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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- 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. 20.
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), pp. 20-21 (no. 63).
Le graduel romain: édition critique, ed. by Solesmes monks, 2 vols (Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1957), II: Les sources, p. 64
D. H. Turner, ‘The Crowland Gradual: An English Benedictine Manuscript’, Ephemerides Liturgicae, 74 (1960), 168-74 (pp. 172-73).
Wili Apel, Gregorian Chant (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990), p. 122, pl. 4.
David Hiley, Western Plainchant: A Handbook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 410-11.
Alejandro Enrique Planchart, 'The Geography of Martinmas', in Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music, ed. by Sean Gallagher and others (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 119-56 (pp. 142-43).
David G. Hughes, ‘From the Advent Project to the Late Middle Ages: Some Issues of Transmission’, in Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music, ed. by Sean Gallagher and others (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 181-98 (p. 194).
Ruth Steiner, ''Epulair autem et gaudere oportebat'', in Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music, ed. by Sean Gallagher and others (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 331-50 (p. 335).
Emma Hornby, Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis: Words and Music in the Second-mode Tracts (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009), pp. xiii, 52, n. 49, 156, n. 17, 218.
- 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.