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Egerton MS 873
- Record Id:
- 032-001983940
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983940
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0003dd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056033107.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 873
- Title:
- The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew.
ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v).
ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew (ff. 6r-v), beginning: 'Incipit argumentum secundum Mattheum. Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine primus ponitur ita evangelium', followed by capitula (ff. 6v-8v), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium eiusdem. Nativitas Christi magi cum muneris veniunt', including lectiones.
ff. 9v-13v: The Eusebian Canon tables.
ff. 14r-49r: Evangelium secundum Mattheum, the Gospel of St Matthew.
ff. 49r-72v: Evangelium secundum Marcum, the Gospel of St Mark preceded by a prologue (ff. 49r-v) beginning: 'Marcus evangelista Dei et Petri in baptismate'; followed by capitula (ff. 50r-51r).
ff. 73r-113v: Evangelium secundum Lucam, the Gospel of St Luke preceded by a prologue (ff. 73r-v) and followed by capitula (ff. 73v-77r).
ff. 113v-139v: Evangelium secundum Iohannem, the Gospel of St John preceded by a preface (ff. 113v-114r) and capitula (ff. 114r-v).
ff. 140r-148v: Series of quotations from the four Gospels ordered according to the liturgical calendar, Evangelium de circulo anni, beginning: 'Incipit capitulare evangeliorum de circulo anni. In natale domini sanctam Mariam maiorem, secundum Lucam k[apitulum] iii, exit edictum a Cesare Augusto, usque pax hominibus bone voluntatis'.
Decoration:
Canon tables in decorated architectural frames in green, red, blue, and yellow (ff. 9v-13v). Six large initials in brown, with painted decoration in colours, at the beginning of the Gospels or prologues (ff. 14r, 51r, 73r, 77v, 113v, 115r). Large initials in brown. Highlighting of letters in green, red, or yellow, or combinations of these colours. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures in small Roman numerals. The readings for each Gospel have been added in the margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983940", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 873: The Four Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983940
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983940
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056033107.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 185 mm (text space: 235 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 149 ( + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Library/British Museum in-house, brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Lyon, Southeastern France.
Provenance:
Unknown 10th or 11th-century owners: added the title of the oratio 'In agenda mortuorum' and the chant 'Jesus iunxit se discipulis suis' on f. 149r; perhaps added a fragment of an 11th-century martyrology as flyleaf (ff. 1r-1v).
The Premonstratensian abbey of Schussenried in Swabia, founded in 1183: 14th-century inscription, 'Iste liber est dominorum meorum (sic) de ?Schozenruth et eis debet redditus (sic)/ alio modo anathema est' (f. 149r); perhaps added the note 'Probatio penne', 'Mandatum', and a drawing of a grotesque to f. 149r in the 12th century.
Henry Bohn (b. 1796; d. 1884), translator and publisher: purchased from him on 26 September 1840, by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.
- 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. 21.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 28.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter 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.
W. H. Frere, Studies in Early Roman Liturgy: The Roman Gospel-Lectionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 78.
Theodor Klauser, Das romische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen. 28 (Munster: Aschendorff, 1935), p. L no. 163*.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-91), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 24* (as Ve').
Juan Carlos Sanchez Leon, Les Sources de l'Histoire des Bagaudes: Traduction et Commentaires (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1996), p. 106, n. 72.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts: (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II: Laon-Paderborn (2004), p. 110.
- 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.