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Add MS 18338
- Record Id:
- 032-002028856
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x0000c3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055985354.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18338
- Title:
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Isidore of Seville, De Ecclesiasticis Officiis; Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis (About the Church Offices) by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) and De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber (Book about the Virtues and Vices) by Alcuin of York (b. 735, d. 804). It was produced in the 10th century, possibly in Lorraine (see Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), p. 98 (no. 2378)).
Contents:
f. 1r: A page with liturgical song, largely erased, beginning ‘Accessit ad pedes iesu peccatrix’, possibly written in the 10th century.
ff. 2v-66v: Isidore of Seville, De Ecclesiasticis Officiis, with tables of contents.
ff. 67r-93r: Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber, with a table of contents.
Decoration:
Large and small initials in brown or red ink, one with a cross (f. 83r) and one with a flower motif (f. 93r) inside their letters. Rubrics throughout the manuscript (some oxidized).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028856
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028856
- 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_100055985354.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 100 (text space: 140 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 94 ( + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1 is a modern paper leaf.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Red gold-stamped and tooled leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘ISIDORI EPISCOPI LIBER OFFICIORUM. ALCUINI BREVIARIUM.’; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Eastern France.
France:
? A scriptorium in Lorraine: suggested by the script (see Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), p. 98 (no. 2378)).
Unknown 13th- or 14th-century owner: added a title on f. 1r: ‘liber officiorum sancti [...]’.
Nikolaus Gottfried Kränner (b. 1771, d. 1847), German merchant and art collector, in the first half of the 19th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘Nicol. Gottf. Kraenner’.
?The Benedictine abbey of St Georgenberg-Fiecht, founded in 1138 in the Tyrol (Austria): according to a note in the British Library’s Minutes of Acquisition, the manuscripts that the British Museum 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’. It is not certain that this manuscript came from this abbey as well.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853, in 1850: purchased from him by the British Museum on 8 October 1850 (note on f. 1r: ‘Purchased of Mesr Asher, 8th October 1850’).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://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. 100.
Jack David Angus Ogilvy, Books Known to the English, 597-1066 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1967), p. 56.
Paul E. Szarmach, ‘A Preliminary Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Alcuin’s Liber de virtutibus et vitiis’, Manuscripta, 25:3 (1981), 131-40 (p. 137).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 98 (no. 2378).
- 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.