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Add MS 31031
- Record Id:
- 032-002022819
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022819
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x000377
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055996924.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 31031
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-145v: Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the dedicatory epistle to Leander: 'Reverendissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servus servorum Dei. Dudum te frater beatissime in Constantinopolitana urbe cognoscens'; Book 1 (ff. 5v-24v); Book 2 (ff. 24v-55v); Book 3 (ff. 55v-78v); Book 4 (ff. 78v-111r); Book 5 (ff. 111r-145v), ending abruptly at the end of Book 5: 'et singulis tota'.
Decoration:
At the opening of each part: a decorated initial with zoomorphic motifs in green, brown and yellow. Rubrics written in large capitals filled alternately with green, brown and yellow, some rubrics have interlocked capital letters (e. g., f. 1r; 55v). Some rubrics are in red and green. The initial and rubric of f. 78v remain uncoloured. Line fillers in green, yellow and brown. Quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002022819", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 31031: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022819
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002022819
- 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_100055996924.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space: 220 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 145 (+ 3 unfoliated early-modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Merovingian minuscule (Laon a-z script).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, with geometrical motifs and acorn blind-stamped; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Laon, Northern France.
Provenance:
? A scriptorium in Laon: suggested by 'a-z script' (see Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen (1960), p. 52).
An unknown 8th-century owner: added notes in the margins in a late 8th-century script (e. g., ff. 11v, 14r).
The Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren (Bavaria), founded in 764: its 15th-century ownership inscription (f. 1r).
An unknown early modern owner: added chapter numbers in margins (e. g., ff. 2r, 3r).
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790, d. 1876), printer, bookseller: his bookplate with the date '1850' and reference to his bookshop and library 'A la Bible d'Or 1698/ Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmini Didoti' on the inside of the upper cover; his sale, Paris, 14 June 1879, lot 33; purchased by Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher, for the British Museum (f. [i] recto) for £303.14.0.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 147.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, p. 51.
Wallace M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin Manuscripts of the Early Minuscule Period (c. 700-850) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), p. 412.
Wallace M. Lindsay, Paleographica Latina (London: Humphrey Milford, 1922), p. 19.
E. H. Zimmermann, Vorkarolingische Miniaturen (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916), pp. 86-87, 223; pls. 146a, 147g.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 174.
Bernhard Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit: Die bayrischen Diözesen, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1960-1980), I: Die bayrischen Diözesen (1960), p. 52.
Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, 'Mittelalterliche Handschriften des Klosters Ottobeuren', Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-ordens und seiner Zweige, 73:2 (1962), 7-23 (p. 18).
Michelle P. Brown and Patricia Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes (London: British Library, 1999), pl. on p. 67.
W. Clarysse and others, Leuven Database of Ancient Books: Trismegistos (Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2017) [accessed 16 March 2017].
Ian Wood, 'The Problem of Late Merovingian Culture', in Exzerpieren - Kompilieren - Tradieren: Transformationen des Wissens zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter, ed. by Stephan Dusil and others (London: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 199-222 (p. 219).
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 18, 21, 164.
- 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.