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- Record Id:
- 032-002020735
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002020735
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x0000a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063224162.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 29276
- Title:
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Lectionary
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of Hell at the Last Judgement: ‘The Styx may be his drink’ (‘Stix sit ei potus’).
Contents:
ff. 2r-157r: A lectionary, featuring titles of feasts added by a 15th-century hand.
ff. 157r-159v: Pseudo-Alcuin, an exposition on the Lord’s Prayer, beginning: ‘Hec oratio dominica nam ipse dominus discipulos suos eam docuit: Discipuli rogaverunt dominum ut doceret eos qualiter orare deberent’.
ff. 159v-161v: Benedictions for the sacerdotal vestments and the altar, beginning: ‘Orationes ad vestimenta sacerdotalia seu levitica atque sequentis ordinis ministrantium’.
f. 162r: John the Deacon of Rome (fl. late 9th century), Vita S. Gregorii papae (Life of Pope St Gregory), fragment.
ff. 162r-162v: Lists of relics and possessions of a monastery dedicated to St Peter and St Maurice (‘Nos habemus in hoc monasterio sancti Petri sanctique Mauricii’); followed by a curse (anathema) for plunderers and thieves of the monastery.
ff. 163r-167v: A palimpsest containing portions of the Epistles of St Paul to the Romans and Corinthians and of the Apocalypse, written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 1r-1v, 169r-169v: Two fragments of the Gelasian Sacramentary, written in the 2nd half of the 8th century.
f. 161v: A list of donors of to the monastery referred to on f. 162v, and their donations, added by at least twenty hands in the 13th century.
f. 162v: A prayer to the Trinity and a Creed, beginning ‘Sancta trinitas et vera unitas omnipotens deus’; and ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem per signum trium personarum’, imperfect at the end, added in the 13th century.
ff. 163r-164v: A lection, beginning with John 13, added in a 15th-century script.
ff. 164v-167v: A lection, beginning with John 15, added in a 15th-century script.
f. 168r: A list of tables for liturgical feasts, beginning ‘Tabula evangeliorum in summis festis de cantandorum de tempore primo’, added in a 15th-century script.
[ff. 167r, 167v, 168v are blank].
Decoration:
Medium initials in red, sometimes with minor penwork decoration in the same colour; 1 featuring a human face (f. 160r); medium initials in red with green penwork decoration (ff. 162r, 162v only); medium initials in brown ink with green penwork decoration (ff. 1r-1v, 169r-169v only); small (one-line) initials highlighted in red. Rubrics in red. Paraph marks in red. Line-fillers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002020735
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002020735
- 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_100063224162.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 225 mm (text space: 265 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 169 ( + 3 unfoliated modern papers at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 92 and f. 93; and f. 95 and f. 96; part of the lower half of f. 1 has been repaired with new parchment; a paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes); 15th-century foliation (Roman numerals) throughout ff. 2r-157r (‘I-CLXIIII’).
Script: Protogothic (ff. 2r-162v); Gothic (ff. 163r-168r); Caroline minuscule (ff. 1r-1v, 163r-167v, 196r-196v)
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house: gold-tooled black half leather binding; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘LECTIONARIUM.’; red speckled fore-edge; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tholey, Western Germany.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Maurice, Tholey (Saarland), owned the manuscript until at least the 15th century: the abbey is identifiable with the monastery dedicated to St Peter and St Maurice referred to on f. 162v (‘monasterio sancti Petri sanctique Mauricii’); relics of its patron and local saints are listed on ff. 162r-162v (e.g. St Kuno of Trier, Tholey Abbey’s patron saint since 1066); feasts of its patron and local saints are also listed on f. 168r; including a reference to ‘our most holy father St Benedict’ (‘sanctissimi patris nostri Benedicti’); St Kuno of Trier is also referred to in the list of donors and donations on f. 161v (see Levison, ‘Zur Geschichte des Klosters Tholey’ (1927), pp. 70-80).
Puttick & Simpson, in 1872: purchased from Puttick & Simpson by the British Museum on 16 August 1872 according to a note on f. [iii] recto; the sale has not been identified in the auction house’s sale catalogues.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: Longmans, 1877), II, p. 612.
[Edmund Maunde Thompson and George Frederic Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), II (1884): Latin, p. 57.
Wilhelm Levison, ‘Zur Geschichte des Klosters Tholey’, in Historische Aufsätze: Aloys Schulte zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet von Schülern und Freunden (Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1927), pp. 62-81 (pp. 70-80).
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by Elias Avery Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II (1935): Great Britain and Ireland, p. 16 (no. 172).
Theodor Klauser, Das römische Capitulare Evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Münster: Aschendorffschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935), p. CXVII (no. 41).
Wilhelm Levison, ‘Zur Geschichte des Klosters Tholey’, in Aus rheinischer und fränkischer Frühzeit ausgewählte Aufsätze von Wilhelm Levison (Schwann: Düsseldorf, 1948), pp. 105-17
Emmanuel Bourque, Étude sur les sacramentaires romains, 3 vols, Studi di antichità cristiana, 20, 25 (Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1948-1958), II (1952): Les textes remaniés, part 2: Le Gélasien du VIIIe siècle (Bibliothèque théologique de Laval), p. 25 (no. 43).
Klaus Gamber, Alban Dold, and Bernhard Bischoff, Sakramentartypen. Versuch einer Gruppierung der Handschriften und Fragmente bis zur Jahrtausendwende, Texte und Arbeiten, 49-50 (Beuron: Beuron Archabbey, 1958), pp. 1-180 (p. 71).
Klaus Gamber and others, Codices Liturgici Latini Antiquiores, 2nd edn, Spicilegii Friburgensis subsidia, 1, 1 volume in 2 parts (Fribourg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg/Schweiz, 1968), part 2, p. 305 (no. 615).
John Brückmann, ‘Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales’, Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 396).
Rosamond McKitterick, ‘The Diffusion of Insular Culture in Neustria between 650 and 850: The Implications of the Manuscript Evidence’, Beihefte der Francia, 16:2 (1989), 395-432 (p. 412 n. 102).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 101 (no. 2392).
Richard Kay, ‘Pontificalia: A Reportory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals’ (Lawrence, Kansas: Digital Publishing Services, University of Kansas Libraries, 2009), pp. 65-66. «http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4406» [accessed 20 July 2018].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.