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Add MS 26760
- Record Id:
- 032-002030533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030533
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000246
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058422599.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26760
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35.
Decoration:
One large decorated initial 'P'(refacionem) with interlace, floriated motifs and zoomorphic elements, in a multi-coloured frame, with green, red, yellow and blue (f. 1r). Nine large decorated initials with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic elements, interlace and floriated motifs, green, red, yellow, blue and sometimes gold (ff. 13r, 34v, 50v, 66v, 77v, 94r, 110v, 132v, 163r). Two large initials with penwork decoration, in red and blue (ff. 25r, 175v). Initials highlighted in red. Quire signatures in Roman numeral. Running titles.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002030533", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 26760: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030533
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030533
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058422599.0x000001
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 240 mm (text space: 260 x 185 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 187 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled green Moroccan leather over wooden boards; marbled endpapers; red fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Rangéval, Eastern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Rangéval: a 12th-century ownership inscription in the colophon 'Hic liber est Sancte Marie Magdalene de Rengis Valle. Si quis eum abstulerit anathema sit'(f. 187v).
Bought by the British Museum from W. G. Warton, 8 July 1888 (f. [iv] recto).
- 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 1861-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 281.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.