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Add MS 18332
- Record Id:
- 032-002028850
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028850
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x0000bd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165144922.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18332
- Title:
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A collection of theological works and excerpts of works by Augustine, Pseudo-Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, and Pseudo-Ambrose
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Added inscriptions and pentrials on an originally blank folio, from late 9th to the 13th century, the main inscription being the opening words of the midnight mass at Christmas: ‘Grates nunc omnis reddamus’.
ff. 1v-10v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Consolatione mortuorum (On the consolation of the dead), with list of capitula, beginning: ‘Praebete silentium, fratres ne vos transeat sermo utilis’ (see Clavis patristica pseudepigraphorum I: 111-112).
ff. 10v-20v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Consolatione mortuorum, sermo secundus (On the consolation of the dead, second sermon), beginning: ‘Superiori cuidem perstrinximus breviter de consolatione mortalitatis’.
ff. 20v-23v: Pseudo-Augustine, excerpt with the header ‘De edendo cinerem’, beginning: 'Beatissimus propheta David sic locutus est'.
ff. 23v-60r: St Augustine (b. c. 354, d. 430), De Perfectione iustitiae hominis (On man's perfection in righteousness) (see CPL 347).
ff. 60r-75v: St Jerome (b. c. 345, d. 420), Adversus Vigilantium (Against Vigilantius), beginning: ‘Multa in orbe monstra generata sunt’.
ff. 75v-80v: St Jerome, Epistola 112:11, Ad Algasiam (To Algasia).
ff. 80v-88r: Excerpts from St Augustine, De Cura pro mortuis gerenda (On care to be had for the dead), chapters 10-16 (or from Eugippius (b. c. 460, d. c. 533), Excerpta ex operibus Augustini (Excerpts from the works of Augustine), chs. 300-301; see Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions (2015), p. 232), beginning: ‘Narrantur visa quaedam quae huic disputatio’.
ff. 88r-95r: Excerpt from St Augustine, De Octo Dulcitii quaestionibus (On the eight questions of Dulcitius), part 2 and 3 beginning: ‘Si quidem legamus quod in inferno’.
ff. 95r-101v: Excerpts from St Augustine, De Civita Dei (The city of God): bk 20, ch. 20, beginning: ‘Sed hic apostolus tacuit’ (ff. 95r-98v); and bk. 20 ch. 10, beginning: ‘De qua re in hoc opere’ (ff. 98v-101v) (or Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus Augustini, chs.132, 128, 470, 472, 133; see Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions (2015), p. 232).
ff. 101v-104r: St Augustine, Sermon 172 (see CPL 284).
ff. 105r-110v: St Ambrose (b. c. 340, d. 397), De Salomone (On Solomon), beginning: ‘Mirum satis est, dilectissimi fratres’.
ff. 111r-122v: St Ambrose, De Mysteriis (On the Mysteries).
ff. 123r-126v: Excerpt from St Ambrose, De Spiritu Sancto, bk. 1, beginning: ‘Hierobahalcum sub arbore, ut legimus’.
ff. 127r-148v: St Ambrose, De Nabuthae (On Naboth).
ff. 149r-176r: St Ambrose, De Apologia prophetae David (On the apology of David the prophet).
ff. 176v-178v: Pseudo-Ambrose, Sermo de mysterio Paschae (Sermon on the mystery of Easter), beginning: ‘De fide omnibus credentibus’.
Decoration:
Small initials in brown or red ink.
Rubrics in red, now oxidised in several places.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028850
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028850
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165144922.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0825
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century-3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 145 mm (written area 135 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 178 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end.
A strip from a pre-modern paper flyleaf with a now faded inscription is pasted on f. [ii recto].
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600. Light brown and blind-tooled leather on wooden boards; remains of a clasp on both upper and lower boards; possible remains of an attachment for a chain of lower cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy.
Provenance:
The Cistercian monastery of Viktring, in Carinthia (Austria), founded in 1142, the abbey church dedicated to St Mary: ownership inscription written vertically in the outer margin in the 13th century, 'Iste liber est sancte Marie’ (f. 80r) (see also Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 98).
Purchased from Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller, and friend of Anthony Panizzi (b. 1797, d. 1879) by the British Museum in 1850.
- 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), pp. 99-100.
Augustinus, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, De gestis Pelagii, De gratia Christi, De nuptiis et concupiscentia, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 42, ed. by Carl F. Urba and Joseph Zycha (Vienna: Tempsky, 1902), p. v [MS siglum ‘B’].
Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, 11 vols. (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2010), II.2: Grossbritannien und Irland, Corpus der lateinischen Kirchenväter, 4, ed. by Franz Römer (1972), p. 152.
Alain J. Stoclet, 'Le "De civitate Dei" de saint Augustin. Sa diffusion avant 900 d'après les caractères externes des manuscrits antérieurs à cette date et les catalogues contemporains', Recherches Augustiniennes et Patristiques, 19 (1984), 185-209 (p. 198).
Michael M. Gorman, 'The Manuscript Tradition of St Augustine', Congresso Internazionale su S. Agostino nel XVI centenario della conversione, Studia Ephemeridis 'Augustinianum', 24, 3 vols (Rome: Institutum Patristicum 'Augustinianum', 1987), I, 381-412 (p. 398).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 98, no. 2377.
Jesse Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages: The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400–900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 86 ns. 46-47, 232.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)