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Add MS 8091
- Record Id:
- 032-002029098
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029098
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000230
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059142824.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8091
- Title:
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Gospel of St John with glosses
- Scope & Content:
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This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria. The Gloss is a commentary on the Bible that was compiled under the auspices of the French theologian Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) in the late 11th or early 12th century. Since the size of the Gloss prevented its transmission in a single volume, it always travelled in parts for single or groups of biblical books. The Gloss for the Gospel of John, surviving in more than two hundred European manuscripts from the 12th to the 16th century, was among the most popular glossed biblical books. The largest numbers survive from Northern France and England (see Andrée, ‘The Glossa ordinaria’ (2008), 109-34 and 289-333). This manuscript is thought to have been produced in France or England. Originally, it was part of a larger manuscript, as is suggested by medieval foliation running from f. 90 to f. 141 on each of the manuscript’s versos. A section (ff. 17r-24v) of Add MS 8092 contains the same medieval foliation (foliated as ff. 150-157), indicating that it was part of the same manuscript. The original manuscript probably was separated after the Middle Ages, since both Add MS 8091 and Add MS 8092 were owned by Sir William Betham (b. 1779, d. 1853) until 1830, when the manuscripts were purchased by the British Museum.
Contents:
ff. 1r-51: The Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a glossed prologue by St Jerome, beginning ‘Hic est iohannes evangelista unus ex discipulus’.
Decoration:
2 large initials in yellow with foliate interlace outlined by brown ink, with fillers in red, green and purple (f. 1r and f. 2r); incipits and capitals rubricated between ff. 1r-3r only.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029098
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029098
- 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_100059142824.0x000001
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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: 225 x 160 mm (text space: 170 x 120 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 51 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); medieval foliation on the versos throughout the manuscript (ff. 90-141); 1 parchment stub between f. 141 and f. [142]; f. 1 was cut in half and repaired with a paper strip on f. 1v.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding with a blind-stamped full border inside a gold-tooled and –stamped full border, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: ‘EVANGELIUM S. JOHANNIS CUM SCHOLIIS ET GLOSS. INTERLIN.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or France.
Provenance:
Sir William Betham (b. 1779, d. 1853), antiquary, Ulster king of arms, owned in 1830: perhaps his shelf-mark on f. [ii] recto: ‘No 7’; his sale Evans, London, 6 July, lot 436; purchased by the British Museum (see note on f. [ii] recto: ‘Purchased at the sale of Mr William Betham’s MSS by Evans, Pall Mall, June [sic], 1830’) for £2.0.0. The British Museum also purchased Add MS 8092 at his sale, which contains a section that was part of the same manuscript as Add MS 8091.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 666-10018, Egerton Manuscripts 1-600 (unpublished British Museum copy, n. pub., n. date), p. 31.
Alexander Andrée, ‘The Glossa ordinaria on the Gospel of John: A Preliminary Survey of the Manuscripts with a Presentation of the Text and its Sources’, Revue bénédictine, 118 (2008), 109-34 and 289-333 (p. 324).
- 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.