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Add MS 17739
- Record Id:
- 032-002028192
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028192
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x0001bf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055980303.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 17739
- Title:
- The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-8v: The Eusebian Canon tables.
ff. 9r-11r: Hieronymus, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Incipit Epistula Beati Iheronimi ad Damasum papam. Beatissimo pape Damaso Hieronimus novuum opus me facere cogis'.
ff. 11r-13r: Hieronymus, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue on the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Incipit prologus. Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'.
ff. 13r-15r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Sanctum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew), preceded by a prologue (ff. 13r-v) and capitula (ff. 13v-15r), beginning of the prologue: 'Item prologus eiusdem. Matheus ex Iudaea sicut in ordine primus ponitur ita evangelium in iudea primus scripsit'.
ff. 18v-66v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew), including lections, the opening words are written in the frontispiece (f. 18v): 'Liber generationis Ihesu Christi David', beginning (f. 19r): 'Abraham genuit Isaac'.
ff. 66v-68v: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Sanctum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark), preceded by a prologue (ff. 66v-67v) and capitula (ff. 67v-68v), beginning of the prologue: 'Evangelista Dei electus et Petri in baptismate filius'.
ff. 70r-103v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark), including lections, beginning: 'Ecce mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam qui preparabit viam tuam'.
ff. 100v-103r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Sanctum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), preceded by a prologue (ff. 100v-101r) and capitula (ff. 101v-103r), beginning of the prologue: 'Incipit argumentum secundum Lucam. Lucas Syrus Anthiocensis arte medicus discipulus apostolorum.'
ff. 103v-155r: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), including lections, beginning: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'.
ff. 155r-156r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Sanctum Iohannem (The Gospel of St John), preceded by a prologue (ff. 155r-v) and capitula (ff. 155v-156r), beginning of the prologue: 'Hic est Iohannes evangelista'.
ff. 157r-194v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Iohannem (The Gospel of St John), including lections, beginning: 'Et Deus erat verbum'.
Decoration:
Framed Evangelist portraits (ff. 18r, 69r, 103r, 156v) and full incipit pages with angels, zoomorphic and interlace decoration at the beginning of each Gospel, some in colours on blue grounds (ff. 17r-18v, 103r-v), others unfinished ink drawings (ff. 69r-v, 156v). Canon tables of architectural columns surmounted by Christ and angels, with human figures or zoomorphic decoration in brown ink, some partially coloured in green. Large initials with foliate decoration and birds, animals, and animal heads in blue, green, and red at the beginning of prologues (ff. 9r, 13v, 66v, 100v ), one an unfinished ink drawing (f. 155v). Large initials in red, with green penwork decoration, or in green with red penwork decoration. Initials in brown with interlace and zoomorphic decoration (ff. 155r-v). Small initials in green or red. Rubrics in green and red. Highlighting of initials in yellow.
The style of the decoration resembles paintings at the churches in Clayton and Coombes in Sussex according to Dodwell, 'Une manuscrit emluminé de Jumièges' (1955), pp. 737-41.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028192
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028192
- 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_100055980303.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm (text space: 220 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 194 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end), f. i is a bookplate with arms, f. ii is a 19th-century mention of a collation in French.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Black leather over wooden boards; the edges gilded.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Jumièges, Northwestern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre, Jumièges: based on the style, according to Dodwell, 'Un manuscrit enlumine de Jumièges' (1955).
Added, 14th-century verse from the Gospel of St Luke (Luke 16:7-9), written in a Gothic script (f. 137r).
The Bercheny family, an Hungarian noble family, perhaps Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny (d. 1778), marshal of France: their early modern heraldic bookplate showing arms per pale, the Jerusalem cross, crest out of a ducal coronet a unicorn's head (f. i recto).
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bought for £90 by the British Museum through Rodd's executors with 8 other manuscripts, 9 June 1849.
- 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 in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 52.
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 40.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination: 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 9.
C. R. Dodwell, 'Un manuscrit enluminé de Jumièges au British Museum', in Jumièges: Congrès scientifique du XIIIème centenaire, 2 (Rouen, 1955), pp. 737-41.
Hugo Buchthal and Francis Wormald, Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 15 n. 6.
M. W. Evans, Medieval Drawings (London: Hamlyn, 1969), no. 68.
J. J. G. Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 98 n. 4, 157, n. 3, 183 n. 1, pl. 19g.
C. R. Dodwell, Painting in Europe: 800 to 1200 (London: Penguin Books, 1971), p. 88.
Hanns Swarzenski, Monuments of Romanesque Art: The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe, 2nd ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), no. 85, figs 197, 198.
Elżbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), fig. 50.
The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, ed. by Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, and Leslie Webster (London: British Museum, 1984), no. 262 [exhibition catalogue].
Richard Gameson, ‘’Hugo Pictor enlumineur normand’, Cahiers de civilization médiévale, 44 (2001), 121-38 (p. 127 ns 29, 34, figs 6, 8).
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), p. 268 n.
Richard Gameson, 'La Normandie et l'Angleterre au XIème siècle: Le témoignage des manuscrits', in La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Moyen Âge, Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 4-7 octobre 2001, ed by. Pierre Bouet and Véronique Gazeau (Caen: CRAHM, 2003), pp. 129-59 (pp. 143-44, fig. 7).
La France romane au temps des premiers Capétiens (987-1152), Paris, Musée du Louvre, 10 March-6 June 2005 (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2005), no. 254 [with additional bibliography].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 75, fig. 62.
Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quantin's Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory (York: University of York Press, 2015), p. 196.
- 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.