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Add MS 26761
- Record Id:
- 032-002030534
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030534
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000247
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064357191.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26761
- Title:
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Origen, Commentary on Matthew (Chapter 36-end)
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains part of the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by the Church Father Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254). The manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. It was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by French revolutionary forces in 1790.
Contents:
ff. 2r-175r: Origen, Commentary on Matthew, Chapter 36-end, beginning ‘Incipiunt capitula omeliarum adamantij origenis presbiteri in evangelio mathei. Ab eo loco ubi ait venit ihesus in partes cesaree philippi . usque ad finem ipsius evangelij . numero triginta sex’ [ed. in Patrologia Graeca, 13, col. 933-1599 and 1599-1800].
[ff. 1r, 1v, 175v are blank].
Decoration:
2 large foliate interlace initials in red in frames of purple (ff. 2r, 20v); numerous large initials in blue or red with arabesque motifs in the same colours, 2 with pink or yellow added to the inside of their letters (ff. 10v, 53r); plain medium initials in blue or red, occasionally in green, some with minor penwork decoration and/or arabesque motifs in the same colour; plain small initials in blue, green and red. Rubrics in red. Roman numerals in red. Paraph markers in red. Quire marks in brown ink on last versos with minor penwork decoration in the same colour.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030534
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030534
- 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_100064357191.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 175 ( + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 1 is a modern parchment leaf.
Dimensions: 350 x 260 mm (text space: 235 x 165 mm, in 2 columns).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘ORIGENES HOMILIÆ IN EVANGELIUM S. MATTHÆI’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pontigny, Central France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, founded in 1114, extant until its dissolution by Revolutionary forces in 1790: their ownership inscription added in a 12th-century script, on f. 175r (‘Liber sanctae mariae pontiniacensis’) and f. 175v (‘Liber Sanctae Marie pontiniaci’); a decorated capital was added in the 2nd quarter of the 13th century by a scribe whose work can be found in several biblical commentaries from Pontigny Abbey; the manuscript is recorded in Pontigny’s manuscript catalogues from the 12th century onwards: as ‘A 94’, ‘C 117’, ‘G 80’ and ‘I 135’ (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 524).
The Public Library of Auxerre, from 1791 until 1825: Pontigny’s manuscripts were transferred to Auxerre in 1791 and sold in 1825 by François-Nicolas Comynet (b. 1791, d. 1848) (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), pp. 209-28); recorded in the 1792 catalogue of Pontigny manuscripts that were transferred to Auxerre (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 385, as ‘H 21’); and a catalogue created by Revolutionary commissioners in 1794 (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 431, as ‘I 135’).
Joseph-Félix Allard (b. 1795, d. 1831), clerk at the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, owned at some point between 1825 and 1829: his description of the manuscript’s contents in French and initials inscribed on f. 1r: ‘F. A. xx’ (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), pp. 229-31).
Edward O’Reilly (b. c. 1770, d. 1829), Irish lexicographer, in 1829: the sale of his library in 1830; purchased by James Henthorn Todd (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 231).
James Henthorn Todd (b. 1805, d. 1869), librarian at Trinity College in Dublin: his sale according to a note in the British Library’s sale catalogue of ‘A Valuable Collection of Patristic Writings on Vellum’, Sotheby’s, London, 1 June 1864, lot 159 (see also Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), pp. 231-32).
W. G. Warton (19th century), Esquire, in 1865: purchased from him by the British Museum on 8 July 1865 (note on f. [iv] recto: ‘Purchased of W. G. Warton, 8 July, 1865’) together with 3 other manuscripts for £22.0.0.
- 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 1864-1875, 2 vols (London: Longmans, 1877), II, p. 281.
Erich Klostermann and Ernst Benz, ‘Zur Überlieferung der Matthäus-Erklärung des Origenes’, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 47:2 (1931), 1-136 (p. 75).
Origenes Werke, ed. by Paul Koetschau and others, 12 vols (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1899-1955), 11 (1933): Origenes Matthäuserklarung II: Die lateinische Übersetzung der Commentariorum Series, ed. by Erich Klostermann and Ernst Benz, as ‘L’.
Charles H. Talbot, ‘Cistercian Manuscripts in England’, Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 272).
Charles H. Talbot, ‘Notes on the Library of Pontigny’, Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, 10 (1954), 106-68 (p. 159, no. 81).
Charles Reginald Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination: 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 109 n. 6.
Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 11 vols (Madrid: Casimiro, 1950-1980), IV (1954): Commentaria: Auctores N-Q, p. 155 (nos 6211 and 6212).
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Miller, 1996), II: Catalogue, p. 102 (no. 82).
Monique Peyrafort-Huin, with Patricia Stirnemann and Jean-Luc Benoit, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny (XIIe-XIXe siècles): Histoire, inventaires anciens, manuscrits, Documents, études et répertoires, 60 (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2001), pp. 19 n. 11, 20 n. 23, 76, 135-36 figs 7-8, 152 n. 37, 232 table 1 [‘A 94’], 524.
- 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.