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Record Id:

032-002026010

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Title:

St. Augustine 'De Genesi ad litteram' (fragment); parts of a Gradual and Sacramentary of German use; Consolatio peccatorum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-2v Two folios from St. Augustine, 'De Genesi ad litteram' (Book II, chapters ii-iv), beginning 'versus intrandi. Quod sibi', ending 'nam sol eundem'. These folios are from a copy of the 9th or 10th century, the remaining 248 folios being Mainz, Bibliothek des Bischöflichen Priesterseminars Hs II 12.

ff. 3r-17v: Folios from a Sacramentary of German use, beginning at 'finisq[ue] vite advenerit emundatum', ends at 'imperatorem et ep[iscopu]m atq[ue] abbatem n[ost]rum et me[..]'; includes a a mass text interceding especially for the community and donors of StQyrinus in Tegernsee (ff. 17r-v); last quarter of the 11th century.

18r-41v: Folios from a Gradual with musical neums, St Gall notation, beginning at 'Si ambe lem in medio umbre', ending at 'tribus israhel dicit dominus'; last quarter of the 11th century.

ff. 42r-49r: Jacobus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum, or Processus Belial, the trial of the human race before Christ, accused by the Devil and defended by the Virgin Mary, beginning, 'Nostis, fratres karissimi, qualiter Sathanas subintrans viscera Jude'; 15th century.

Decoration: Initials in red with decoration in gold, silver and blue, or with in-filling in blue (ff. 3-17). Initials in red with in-filling in gold. Musical neums in brown ink (ff. 18r-41). One initial in blue with pen-flourishing in red; cadels (ff. 42-49). Numbers and rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0900

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

9th century-15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 265 x 180 mm (text space: 205 x 120 (ff. 1-2); 165/75 x 115 (ff. 3-41); 170 x 75 (ff. 42-49).

Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule (ff. 1-2); Protogothic (ff. 3-41); Gothic cursive (ff. 42-49).

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1903.

Custodial History:

Origin: ?Abbey of St Amand, north-eastern France (ff. 1-2); Bavaria, Germany (ff. 3-41); France or Italy (ff. 42-49).

Provenance:

ff. 1-2: Abbey of St Amand, north-eastern France: the hand of the St Augustine fragment has been identified as a scribe of St Amand (see Rainer Kurz, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, 10 vols, (Vienna Der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2009),V (V/I, p. 123, V/2, p. 277).

ff. 3-17: St Quirynus in Tegernsee, Bavaria: the benediction, 'omni Congregatione SciQuiryni custodi’ on ff. 17r-v of the Missal.

Bought by the British Museum from J. M. Sullivan, 8 March 1884

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), p. 96.

J.P.W. Crawford, 'The Catalan Mascaron and an Episode in Jacob van Marlant's Merlijn', Publications of the Modern Language Association, xxvi (1911), 31-50.

Hope Traver, 'The Four Daughers of God', Publications of the Modern Language Association, xl (1925), .44-92.

Le graduel romain: édition critique par les moines de Solesmes, 2 vols (Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1957), II: Les sources, p. 63.

ChristineElisabeth Eder, Die Schule des Klosters Tegernsee im frühen Mittelalter imSpiegel der Tegernseeer Handschriften, Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichtedes Benediktinerordens und seiner zweige 83 (1972), 6-155 (p.123).

Bernhard Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit , 2 vols (Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1960, 1980), II (1980), pp. 102-03, no. 45.

Michael Gorman, ‘The Oldest Manuscripts of SaintAugustine’s De Genesi at Litteram’, RevueBenedictine , 90 (1980), 1-49 (p. 10, ms M).

Michael Gorman, 'Augustine Manuscripts from the Library of Louis the Pious: Berlin Phillips 1651 and Munich CLM 3824', Scriptorium, Revue Internationale des Etudes Relatives aux Manuscrits, 50.1 (1996), 98-105 (p. 105).

Nicholas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 16.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1889):

'1. Two leaves containing a portion of St. Augustine "De Genesi ad litteram," lib. ii. capp. ii-vi beginning "versus intrandi. Quod sibi," and ending "nam sol eundem" (see, Migne, Patrologia, xxxiv. coll. 265, 266). Xth cent. ff. 1, 2.

2. Leaves from a Missal of German use; with pneums. Late XIth cent. ff. 3-41.

3. Processus Belial the trial of the human race, summoned before the judgment-seat of Christ on the accusation of the Devil, who argues against them, while the Virgin pleads in their defence; beg. "Nostis, fratres karissimi, qualiter Sathanas subintrans viscera Jude." XVth cent. ff. 42-49.Vellum; ff. 49. Xth-XVth centt. Octavo.'