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Egerton MS 2782
- Record Id:
- 032-001984841
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984841
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x0002d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059294265.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2782
- Title:
- Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo (or Haymo) of Auxerre (d. 853). Haimo was one of the key figures in the revival of learning in the Carolingian period.
Contents:
ff. 1-124v: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah).
[ff. 125r-125v are blank].
Decoration:
2 large initials in red with red and blue or green pen-work decoration (ff. 1r, 14r), and 1 in blue with red and blue pen-work decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001984841", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 2782: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984841
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984841
- 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_100059294265.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 260 mm (text space: 255 x 180 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 126; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on the inside of the upper cover (f. [i]); f. 126 is a parchment pastedown on the inside of the lower cover.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. White leather over thick wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Bury St Edmunds, Eastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds, founded in 1020: its ownership inscription 'Haymo super Ysaiah de refectorio monochorum sanctum edmundum' and pressmark 'H.1' added in a 12th-century script on f. 1r; listed in its late 12th-century catalogue (see Sharpe and others, English Benedictine Libraries (1996), p. 67 (B13.85)); perhaps added the 14th- or 15th-century names and place-names (e.g. 'Bury' and 'Wulpyt') on f. 125r.
? 'A Town Clerk of Lynn': according to James, The Abbey of St Edmund at Bury (1895), p. 62 (no. 172).
'J. R. Goshawk, of Harrow': purchased by the British Museum on 13 June 1893 (see note f. [i] verso) for £10, 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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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 474.
Montague R. James, On the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury, Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Octavo Publications, 28 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895), p. 61 (no. 127).
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. 20.
The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, ed. by Rodney Thomson (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1980), p. 171.
Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The Scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the Twelfth Century (New York: Garland Publishing, 1986), pp. 49, 324-25.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by Richard Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), p. 67 (B13.85).
- 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.