Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Egerton MS 3760
- Record Id:
- 032-001986102
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001986102
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00002f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062815696.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3760
- Title:
-
Cistercian Gospel Lectionary
- Scope & Content:
-
This 12th-century manuscript from France contains Gospel readings (lections) for the moveable liturgical feasts for events related to Easter (Temporale) and the immovable liturgical feasts for Christmas and the saints (Sanctorale). Its original contents and additions suggest that the manuscript was produced for and owned by one or more Cistercian monasteries during the Middle Ages.
Contents:
ff. 1r-112r: Temporale, beginning ‘In vigilia natalis domini sequentia sancti evangelii; secundum Matheum’; Gospels for matins and masses from Christmas Eve untill the 25th Sunday after Pentecost and for the four Sundays in Advent.
ff. 112r-132v: Sanctorale, beginning ‘In natale sancti Stephani protomartiris secundum Matheum’; gospels for matins and mass from the feast of St Stephen Protomartyr to that of St Thomas the Apostle. Provision is made for the two masses traditional on the feasts of St John the Baptist (ff. 119v-120v) and St Lawrence (ff. 123v-124r).
ff. 132v-146v: Lections for the feasts of apostles, martyrs, virgins, the dedication of a church, the Trinity, Holy Cross, the Virgin Mary, masses for family, the ill (imperfect due to the loss of a folio between ff. 144 and 145) and the dead, with marginal directions for the epistles.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. i verso-ii recto [bound upside down]: The Mass for the feast of the Crown of Thorns, added in a 14th-century Italian hand, beginning ‘In Festo Sancte Corone domini Introitus’.
ff. 112r-132v: Added notes for saints' days, including those of St Thomas of Canterbury (f. 113v) and St Bernard (f. 124v), in various hands of c. 1200-early 14th century.
f. 146v: A lection for Corpus Christi, added in a 14th-century Italian hand, beginning ‘In illo tempore dixit ihesus discipulis et turbis iudeorum’.
f. iii recto: Text and melody of the intonation for the Passion in Holy Week, added in a 17th-century Italian hand.
[ff. ii verso, iii recto, are blank].
Decoration:
2 large puzzle initials in red and blue (f. 1r [2x]); medium initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour; added foliate penwork decoration in black to two red initials (ff. 128v-129r); highlighting of letters in yellow, some highlighting of letters in red. Rubrics in red or blue. On Holy Saturday the text and melody of the Paschal Prophecy are given with transitional notation on a staff of one red (Fa) and three drypoint lines (ff. 74r-78r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001986102", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 3760: Cistercian Gospel Lectionary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001986102
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001986102
- 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_100062815696.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 x 190 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii (‘i’-‘ii’) + 146 + i (‘iii’); f. i recto and f. iii verso have been pasted to the inside of the upper and lower cover (making text on f. iii verso illegible); 2 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 8 and f. 9.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Italian blind-stamped and -tooled brown calf binding with brass corners and stud (strap missing) and wooden boards, c. 1500.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: ?Southern France.
Provenance:
A Cistercian monastery in France, produced in the 12th century: The arrangement of the Gospels at the morning masses in the octave of Christmas (f. 4r) is as directed by the Cistercian Liber Usuum (see Migne, Patrologia Latina, clxvi, cols. 1388-9) in the early 12th century; the manner of announcing the Passion in Holy Week (ff. 45v, 55r, 61v and 68v) is as in the Liber Usuum (Migne, Patrologia Latina, clxvi, col. 1398). The numeration of Sundays after the octave of Epiphany is a Cistercian feature (see Cistercian manuscripts Add MS 17431 and Add MS 46203). The numeration of the Sundays after the octave of Easter agrees with Add MS 17431. Although the feast of the Trinity does not appear, the Sundays after Pentecost have been renumbered in a hand of c. 1200, following the introduction of this feast in 1175. Among the feasts that have been added to the Sanctorale between c. 1200 and the early 14th century are several entries for French and Cistercian saints: William of Bourges (instituted 1218); Julian of Le Mans (instituted 1193); Robert of Molesme (instituted 1222) [Cistercian]; Peter Martyr (instituted 1255); Peter of Tarentaise (instituted 1191) [Cistercian], twice, once on his usual date of 8 May and again in September on the anniversary of his death; Bernard of Clairvaux (instituted 1174), St Giles, St Eligius (Eloy), and St Lambert of Maastricht (for these Cistercian feasts see B. Backaert, 'L'évolution du calendrier cistercien', Collectanea ordinis cisterciensium reformatorum, 12 (1950), 81–94, 302–16; 13 (1951), 108–27).
? A Cistercian monastery in Italy, owned in the 14th and 15th century: The complete Mass for the feast of the Crown of Thorns, instituted by the Cistercians in 1292, has been added in a 14th-century Italian hand on ff. i verso-ii recto; a text for the feast of Corpus Christi, instituted by the Cistercians in 1277, has been added in a 14th-century Italian hand (f. 146v); the manuscript has an Italian binding from c. 1500.
An unidentified owner: an unidentified shield (per chevron) in faint black ink on f. 16v.
An unknown modern owner: inscribed in pencil on f. ii recto: ‘N57 Evangelam’.
J. Irving Davis (b. 1889, d. 1967) and Giuseppe Orioli (b. 1884, d. 1942), London booksellers, owned in 1957: purchased from them by the British Museum on 14 December 1957, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Originals:
-
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
-
British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1956-1965, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 2000), I, pp. 593-94.
- 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.