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Egerton MS 2831
- Record Id:
- 032-001984889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984889
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x0002fa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056031595.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2831
- Title:
- Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Benedictine abbey of Marmoutiers (see Gasnault, 'L'ex-libris du VIIIe siècle' (1971)).
Contents:
ff. 1v-143v: St Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18: book 14 (ff. 1v-26v), book 15 (ff. 26v-48r), book 16 (ff. 48r-78v), book 17 (ff. 78v-109r), and book 18 (ff. 110r-143v), beginning: 'Dominus qui respicit terram et fecit eam tremae'. The last lines are partially erased (f. 143v).
Decoration:
Drawing in brown ink of a nimbed figure (f. 109v). Zoomorphic initial in brown ink with a fish (f. 1v). Large initial in brown ink with penwork decoration (f. 78v). Small initials in brown. The incipit and explicit are written in an uncial script.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001984889", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 2831: Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984889
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984889
- 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_100056031595.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0725
- End Date:
- 0749
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 143 ( + 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end). The margins of ff. 55-64 have been trimmed off.
Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm (text space 250 x 190 mm) in two columns except ff. 56r-63v written with long lines.
Script: Pre-caroline minuscule with features of Merovingian script (ff. 1-109 ) and Insular minuscule (ff. 110-143).
Binding: Post-1600. Green velvet with pattern; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Marmoutiers, Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Marmoutiers, Tours: 8th-century inscription in Merovingian cursive script 'Hic habet librum Sancti Martini Turonensem de caenubio in quo quiescit \ vel de illo armario et qui me furaverit vel hoc folium inciserit / anathema sit' (f. 1r); pen trials in Merovingian script (e. g., an alphabet) (f. 1r); added notes in Merovingian cursive script throughout (ff. 42v-43r, 63r passim) including short interlinear glosses in the same hand (ff. 49r, 50r passim); this manuscript is one of the earliest witnesses of the collaboration between a continental scribe (ff. 1-109) and an insular scribe (ff. 110-143): the continental scribe used one or two diples as citations marked (ff. 10v, 41v), and the insular scribe used dots and commas (f. 112r); cited by Dom Marlène in 1691 (see Gasnault, 'L'ex-libris du VIIIe siècle d'un manuscrit de Saint Hilaire' (1971)); cited in Bernard de Montfaucon's catalogue Bibliotheca bibliothecarum (Paris: 1739), II, p. 1139.
An early modern shelf-mark '141' (f. 1r).
Joseph-Félix Allard, (b. 1795, d. 1831), priest, professor of rhetoric and book collector: cited in his sale, Techener, Paris 18 October 1831, lot 7, Catalogue d'un choix de livres anciens et de vieux manuscrits provenant de la bibliothèque de M. Alard, Paris, 18 octobre 1831.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector (on whom see Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois: Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVI', Book Collector, 33 (1984), 431-48): acquired from him by Ashburham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham: acquired with the other Barrois manuscripts in 1849.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: sold in the Ashburnham-Barrois sale, 10 June 1901, lot 267, bought by the British Museum, 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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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), no. Eg. 2831.
New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, First Series, 2 vols, ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others (London: [n. pub.], 1903-1912), 1 [-2], pls 108-09.
Wilhelm Kohler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
W. M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin MSS. of the Early Minuscule Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), pp. 16, 44, 64 passim.
W. M. Lindsay, Paleographia Latina (London: Humphrey Milford, 1922), pp. 19, 33, 38-39.
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Studies in the Script of Tours, 1, 2 vols (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929), I, no. 7; II, pls 12-13.
Wilhelm Koehler, Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), I: Die Ornamentik, 2 vols (1930-1962), I, p. 11 fn. 1, 89 fn. 1.
Wilhelm Koehler, Review of Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 321-36 (p. 324).
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 196a, b.
Patrick McGurk, 'Citation marks in early Latin manuscripts (with a list of citation marks in manuscripts earlier than A. D. 800 in English and Irish libraries)', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 15:1 (1961), 3-13 (pp. 10-12).
Bernard Bischoff, 'Einwiedergefundener Papyrus und die altesten Handschriften der Schule von Tours', in Mittelalterliche Studien, I (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1966), pp. 6-16 (pp. 10, 13).
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 82.
Pierre Gasnault, 'L'ex libris du VIIIe s. d'un manuscrit de S. Hilaire (Bibl. nat., nouv. acq. lat. 1592)', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 25 (1971), 49-52 (pp. 50-51, pl. I).
Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois: Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVI', Book Collector, 33 (1984), 431-48.
Rosamond McKitterick, 'The Diffusion of Insular Culture in Neustria Between 650 and 850', in Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th centuries, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Ashgate: Variorum, 1994), text III, p. 340.
Mary Garrison, 'The Library of Alcuin's York', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 1400-1557 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 633-64 (p. 651).
Joanna Story, ‘Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 66-85 (p. 69 n. 11).
- 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.