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Egerton MS 3775
- Record Id:
- 032-001986123
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001986123
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00003d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064374309.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3775
- Title:
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St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five manuscripts still bearing the Abbey’s press-mark.
Contents:
ff. 2r-126v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Consensu Evangelistarum, Books I-IV.
On the inside covers is the offset of a legal text in Hebrew, in Ashkenazi script, dating before c.1400.
[ff. 1r, 1v, 9* recto, 9* verso, 127r and 127v are blank].
Decoration:
Large initials in red, green, yellow, brown, or blue, some with simple pen-work decoration; a few with the decoration in another colour or with three colours (ff. 36v, 119r); a few with pen-work decoration inside the letters, in brown (ff. 95v, 96r) or red (f. 101v) ink. Small initials in red or brown. Numerals in red. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001986123", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 3775: St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001986123
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001986123
- 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_100064374309.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Latin - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 195 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 127 + 9* ( + 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. 1 is an original parchment flyleaf (the lower half has been removed; f. 9* is a parchment stub.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Whittawed leather over oak boards; the spine has two projecting flaps, at the top and bottom. A white leather strap, featuring two decorated copper elements, secured to the front cover fits onto a pin (now lacking) on the lower cover. The spine is inscribed in brown ink: ‘10’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?London, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Westminster, London: its 13th-century press-mark 'S.xxx. pe[tri] 7 [et] ed[wardi] West[monasteriensis]' (at the top of ff. 1v, 64r, 126v). Inscription 'ii ix' [?] within a rectangle (f. 1r); its late 13th-century addition of a rhyming elegiac couplet (ff. 85v and 127v).
John, a monk at Westminster (?), in the 13th-century (?): his inscription on f. 127r: ‘Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Johannes scriptum est [...] dilige dominum [...]’.
? 'John Woodward', owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 1v ('per me Johannes Wodwarde') in a 15th- or 16th-century script.
? Anthony Kitchin [name in religion Dunstan] (b. 1477, d. 1563), bishop of Llandaff, monk of Westminster, Prior of Gloucester College, Oxford, Abbot of Eynsham: effaced notes referring to him and to another monk (Wellys?) of Westminster on f. 127v.
Rev. Sir William Henry Cope, 12th Baronet, of Bramhill Park, Hampshire (b. 1811, d. 1892); owned by him according to the Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1872), p. 242 ('10'); the sale of the Bramhill Park library at Sotheby's, 4 March 1913, lot 9A (although omitted from Sotheby's printed sale-catalogue).
Lt.-Col. William Ernest Moss (b. 1876, d. 1953), of the Manor House, Sonning-on-Thames: his sale, London, Sotheby's, 2 March 1937, lot 53; bought by Maggs Bros.
Maggs Bros. Ltd, antiquarian booksellers: their price code 'noo' (inside lower cover).
Eric George Millar (b. 1887, d. 1966), librarian, owned from 1937 to 1965: foliated by him and his book-plate (numbered as ‘ii’). Bought from him by the British Library on 12 June 1965 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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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 196 [collection Dr E. G. Millar].
D. H. Turner, 'From the Library of Eric George Millar', British Museum Quarterly, 30 (1966), 80-88 (pp. 81, 84-85, pl. 19).
Franz Römer, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus II/1:Grossbritannien und Irland: Werkverzeichnis, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Corpus der Lateinischen Kirchenväter, 3, Österreichische akademie der wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historische klasse, 281 (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1972), pp. 170-71, 340.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 67.
British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1956-1965, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2000), I: Descriptions, pp. 605-06.
- 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.