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Add MS 6523
- Record Id:
- 032-002029072
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029072
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x00021b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059142473.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6523
- Title:
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Gospel of St Luke, glossed
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Luke with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It was probably produced in France (ex. info Michael Gullick), but was in England by the first half of the 16th century.
Contents:
ff. 1v-156v: The Gospel of Luke with marginal and interlinear Gloss, beginning with a prologue: ‘Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt, et Lucas evangelista testatur’.
[f. 1r is empty (except for a later addition)].
Decoration:
Large initials in red, blue or green, some with minor penwork decoration in blue or red. Small initials in blue or red. A marginal drawing of a human head on f. 155v (added by Richard Newport).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002029072", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 6523: Gospel of St Luke, glossed" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029072
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029072
- 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_100059142473.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm (text space: 215 x 165 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 156 ( + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper on carton boards, a brown leather spine inscribed in gold ‘EVANGELIUM SEC. LUCAM CUM COMMENT.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
Thomas Symmons, draper, of Newport, Shropshire, owned in 1549: Memoranda of indenture on f. 2r: ‘Thys indentur mad the xxxth day of desember in the thryd yere of the Reyne of our souerayn llord Edward the vith be the grace of god kyng of englond fraunce and eyrellond [etc.]’.
? Richard Newport (d. 1570) of High Ercall, English landowner and politician of Shropshire, owned in 1561: his name inscribed twice on f. 155v: ‘Rychard Newport 1561’ (twice), in a sixteenth century script; his inscription on f. 156v: ‘iusques a la mort / lameray Newport’. Newport also owned London, British Library, Add MS 6524; Hargrave 313; and Loan MS 61; and Oxford, Queen's College, MS 52.
An unknown (?) 17th-century English owner: inscribed financial notes on f. 31r.
Joseph Planta (b. 1744, d. 1827), librarian at the British Museum: presented the manuscript to the British Museum in 1821 (together with Add MS 6522 and Add MS 6524).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
- Peter Kidd, 'MS. 52' [accessed 27 March 2018] (on the owner Richard Newport).
- 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.