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Egerton MS 1046
- Record Id:
- 032-001984125
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984125
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x000086
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058095562.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 1046
- Title:
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Old Testament Vulgate Fragments (Egerton Wisdom Codex)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Vulgate version of Proverbs (imperfect, from Proverbs 4:9 to the end), Ecclesiates, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (imperfect, from Ecclesiasticus 1:1-35, 4:10-44:13), and the Song of Songs.
The middle section of the codex, from ff. 17-31, is written in a different script, although it may have been produced in the same Northumbrian scriptorium in the 8th century. Although these folios may originally have been part of a separate biblical manuscript, their text complements that on ff. ff. 1-16, 32-48, and these sets of folios may have been kept together from an early date.
Decoration: on ff. 1-16, 32-48 there are black initials, rubrication. On ff. 17-31, initials coloured yellow, red, and green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001984125", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 1046: Old Testament Vulgate Fragments (Egerton Wisdom Codex)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984125
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984125
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058095562.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 315 x 225 mm (text block between 265 x 215 and 270 x 195 mm).
Foliation: ff. 48 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon majuscule, Anglo-Saxon minuscule, Half Uncial.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northumbria, 8th century: ff. 1-16 and 32-48 may have been produced separately from ff. 17-31, although they both may have been copied at the same scriptorium as the Durham Cassiodorus (Durham Cathedral Library MS B ii 30; see Lowe, Codices (1935), p. 22).
Provenance:
? 19th century inscriptions (f. 1r, 17r, 30v, 32r, 48v).
Purchased by the British Museum from William Pickering on 11 November 1843 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 103.
[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, pp. 13-14.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1929), no. 49.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-66), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), nos 194a, 194b (p. 22).
Joyce Irene Whalley and Vera C. Kaden, The Universal Penman: A Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980), no. 7.
Joyce Irene Whalley, The Pen's Excellence: Calligraphy of Western Europe and America (Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1980), pl. on p. 39.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), p. 142.
Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 91 n. 60.
Richard Marsden, ‘The Old Testament in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Preliminary Observations on the Textual Evidence’, in TheEarly Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 101-124 (pp. 103-04, 123).
Michelle P. Brown, The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England (London: British Library, 1996), p. 172.
Richard Marsden, 'Ask What I am Called': The Anglo-Saxons and Their Bibles', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 145-76 (pp.156, 171).
Michelle P. Brown, ‘Mercian Manuscripts? The ‘Tiberius’ Group and Its Historical Context’, in Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (London: Leicester University Press, 2001), pp. 281-91 (p. 282).
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 187, 258.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Preaching with the Pen: the Contribution of Insular Scribes to the Transmission of Sacred Text, from the 6th to 9th Centuries', University of London Annual Palaeography Lecture, January 2004, School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Courses & Events, [http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/cmps/Events/Lectures/2003/fulltext.htm] [accessed 3 April 2006], p. 9 nos 5-6.
G.R. Wieland, 'Survey of Latin Manuscripts', in Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, ed. by Gale Owen-Crocker (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009), p. 116.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Writing in the Insular World', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 121-66 (pp. 151, 165 n. 220).
Richard Marsden, 'The Biblical Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon England', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 406-35 (p. 420).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)