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Add MS 18298
- Record Id:
- 032-002028816
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028816
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x00008b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059055875.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18298
- Title:
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Psalter with gloss in Latin
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript from the second half of the twelfth century contains a Psalter and Canticles with an interlinear and marginal gloss that has been attributed to the circle of Anselm of Laon (d. 1117).
Decoration:
ff. 1r-2r: A Prologue to the Psalter, beginning (after a 'Nota'): 'Prophetia est aspiration divina'.
ff. 2v-185v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses, beginning: 'Hic ostenditur immunis ab Omni malo'.
ff. 186r-195r: Canticles with interlinear and marginal glosses.
f. 196r: A tract on curing hemorrhoids ‘Cura emorroydarum’ (in a contemporary script).
[f. 195v and f. 196v are blank].
Decoration:
10 large initials with foliate decoration and zoomorphic figures, in red, blue, green and yellow (ff. 2v, 30r, 47r, 63v, 64r 81r, 102r, 122r, 124v, 143v), creating a ten-fold Psalter division. 1 large red initial with a zoomorphic figure against a green background (f. 162v), marking the first of the fifteen Gradual Psalms (Psalm 119). Numerous small initials in blue, green or red, some with red penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028816
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028816
- 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_100059055875.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- 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: 240 x 165 mm (text space: 165 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 196 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 36 and f. 37; f. 38 and f. 39; f. 84 and f. 85; f. 86 and f. 87; f. 110 and f. 111; f. 134 and f. 135; f. 158 and f. 159; f. 180 and f. 181; f. 182 and f. 183.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather, the spine was inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘PSALTERIUM GLOSSATUM.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Southern Germany or Eastern France.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of St Georgenberg-Fiecht, Tyrol (Austria), founded in 1138: according to a pencil note in the British Museum's 'Minutes of Acquisition', the manuscripts that were acquired from Adolphus Asher on 8 October 1850 (see below) ‘chiefly come from the Monastery of Mount St George [….] above Schwaz in the Tyrol, of the Benedictine Order. Founded in the 12th century’.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, ‘Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi’, The British Library Journal, 23 (1997), 131-53): purchased from him as part of a batch of 90 manuscripts on 8 October 1850 (‘note on f. [ii] recto: ‘Purchased of Messrs Asher, 8th October 1850’).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: Woodfall and Kinder, 1868), p. 96.
- 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.