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Egerton MS 2901
- Record Id:
- 032-001984968
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984968
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x000334
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062420151.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2901
- Title:
- Collectio Francofortana with glosses
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains an anonymous collection of papal decretals known as Collectio Francofortana (The Frankfurt Collection) with marginal glosses. This is one of the only four surviving copies of the Collectio Francofortana. The manuscript was produced either in France or England, but it was certainly in Trier in the 17th century.
ff. 1r-97v: Collectio Francofortana with marginal glosses, beginning: 'Augustinus in libro fidei et consensus'. The text on ff. 95v-97v was added later by a different scribe.
[ff. [iv]verso, [v]recto, 18r are blank].
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. [iii]recto-[iv]recto: A list of tituli, added in an 18th-century hand.
ff. 18r-18v, 23r-23v: 2 leaves with decretals added in a Gothic script of the 13th century.
Decoration:
1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red with blue and/or red penwork decoration, or in blue with red and/or blue penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001984968", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 2901: Collectio Francofortana with glosses" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984968
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984968
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100062420151.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 155 mm (text space: 140 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. v + 97 ( + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end); ff i-ii are paper pastedowns on the inside of the upper cover; ff. iii-v are modern paper leaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. German 17th-century binding in white doe-skin, blind-tooled, with thongs; red fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or England.
Provenance:
An unknown 12th-century owner: added text in a near-contemporary hand with small brown intials (ff. 95r-97v).
An unknown 13th-century owner: inserted 2 leaves with Gothic cursive script including a single decretal of Pope Clement III (r. 1187-1191) (ff. 18, 23).
The imperial Benedictine monastery of St. Maximin, Trier, founded in the 6th century: its ownership inscription 'Ex libris Imperialis Monasterii S. Maximini' added in a 17th-century hand (f. 1r).
An unknown 18th-century owner: added list of the tituli in an 18th-century hand on paper (ff. iii recto-iv recto).
Frederick North (b. 1766, d.1827), 5th Earl of Guilford, colonial governor: this manuscript was part of his sale of 1830 (lot 169).
Thomas Thorpe (b. 1791, d. 1851), London bookseller: owned in 1831; his 1831 catalogue, no. 11879.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and manuscripts: his shelfmark 'Phillipps MS 7369 + 7790 (f. 1r); and '7369 and 7790 Ph' (inside upper cover); his catalogue Catalogus librorum (1837), pp. 112, 117; his sale, 5 June, 1899, lot 652, sold to Maggs for £4.
George Dunn (b. 1865, d. 1912) of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead: his book-plate (f. ii, pasted on the inside upper cover); his sale, 13 February 1912, lot 457, bought 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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
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- Publications:
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Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A. D. 1837 (Middle Hill: Phillipps, 1837), pp. 117, 119.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1969), I, p. 415.
Charles Duggan, Twelfth-Century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, University of London Historical Studies, 12 (London: Athlone Press, 1963), p. 196 (pl. VIII).
The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970, ed. by Konrad Hoffmann (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), p. 305 (no. 301) [exhibition catalogue].
Charles Duggan, 'Decretal Collections from Gratian's Decretum to the Compilationes antiquae', in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, ed. by William Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008), pp. 246-92 (p. 282 n. 129).
- 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.