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Egerton MS 874
- Record Id:
- 032-001983941
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983941
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0003de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 874
- Title:
- Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent); Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse; Rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great.
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains Fulbert of Chartres's Hymn for Easter and an Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent), copied in England in the 11th century; Caesarius of Arles's Commentary on Apocalypse, copied in the 9th century in what is now France;and a rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great and an image of a man's head, added in Canterbury in the late 11th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983941", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 874: Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent); Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse; Rhymed…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003310082", "parent" : "032-001983941", "text" : "Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67: Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse" },{ "id" : "040-003310083", "parent" : "032-001983941", "text" : "Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67; 70-110v: Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse." },{ "id" : "040-003310084", "parent" : "032-001983941", "text" : "Egerton MS 874, f 1: Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, Te lucis auctor personent." },{ "id" : "040-003310085", "parent" : "032-001983941", "text" : "Egerton MS 874, ff 68v-69v: Rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983941
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67 : Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse
Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67; 70-110v : Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse.
Egerton MS 874, f 1 : Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, Te lucis auctor personent.
Egerton MS 874, ff 68v-69v : Rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great.
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- 032-001983941
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton MS 874
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Parchment codex, 110 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_874 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 111 ( + 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury: its shelf-mark 'D.iii Ga . ii [iii?]' (f. 2); added hymn specific to St Augustine's, praising Gregory, who sent St Augustine of Canterbury to convert the Anglo-Saxons (ff. 68v-69v): see Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, p. 40.
Added flyleaf with a late12th-century fragment of text 'Oratio Gregorii', with letters highlighted in red (f. 111r-v).
Bought by the British Museum from Henry Bohn, 26 September 1840, 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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
- 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.
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. 3.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Charles R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 123.
Gerald Bonner, 'A Misidentified Manuscript', British Museum Quarterly, 21 (1957) 12-13 [with additional bibliography].
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 40.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 409.
Karl D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 150.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)