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- Record Id:
- 032-002030535
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030535
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000248
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059099223.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26762
- Title:
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Theological tracts
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of theological tracts. It was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the eldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The manuscript 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-21v: Ambrose, De Fide (About Faith) (Books I-II).
ff. 21v-58r: Ambrose, De Spiritu Sancto (About the Holy Spirit) (Books I-III).
ff. 58r-67v: Ambrose, De Incarnationis Dominicae Sacramento (About the Incarnation of the Lord's Sacrament).
ff. 67v-89v: Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate (Books I-VIII). Books I-VII were probably written by Eusebius of Vercelli (b. c. 283, d. 371), and book VIII possibly by Vigilius Thapsensis .
ff. 89v-90r: Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, Symbolum Fidei Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti (The Symbol of Faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
ff. 90r-101v: Vigilius Thapsensis (here unattributed), Contra Arianos , Sabellianos, Photinianos Dialogus (Against Arians, Sabellianists and Photians) (Books I-II).
ff. 101v-102v: Potamius Olisiponensis, Epistola ad Athanasium (Epistle to Athanasius).
ff. 102v-103v: Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistola II ad Luciferum (The Second Epistle to Lucifer).
ff. 103v-105v: Pseudo-Vigilius of Thapsus (here unattributed), Solutiones Objectionum Arianorum (Solutions to the Objections of the Arians).
ff. 105r-108v: Vigilius Thapsensis (here unattributed), Contra Arianos, Sabellianos, Photinianos dialogus (The Dialogue against Arians, Sabellianists and Photians) (Book III).
ff. 109r-119v: Fulgentius Ferrandus, Epistola 7, Ad Reginum Comitem Paraeneticus.
Decoration:
1 large historiated initial in red ink, containing a miniature of a king’s head (Solomon) against a green background (f. 2v). 1 large initial in imitation gold on f. 68r. Large decorated in red or blue and small initials in red, blue, green or black ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030535
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030535
- 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_100059099223.0x000001
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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.
Dimensions: 345 x 240 mm (text space: 245 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. 119 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 1 formerly was a flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘AMBROSII ET ATHANASII DE TRINITATE LIBRI. – FERRANDI DIACON. CARTHAG. AD REGINUM LIBER.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pontigny, Central France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, founded in 1114, from the 12th century until its dissolution by Revolutionary forces in 1790: a 12th-century ownership inscription on f. 119v: ‘Liber sanctae Mariae Pontiniacensis’; the manuscript is recorded in Pontigny’s manuscript catalogues from the 12th-century (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 254, no. 42), early 18th century (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 317, no. 34), 1778 (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 351, no. 92); the 1792 catalogue of Pontigny manuscripts that were transferred to Auxerre (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 386, no. 24); and a catalogue created by Revolutionary commissioners in 1794 (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 418, no. 10).
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).
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 initials inscribed on f. [iv] recto: ‘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, Sotheby’s, London, 1 June 1864, lot 164 (see Peyrafort-Huin, La bibliothèque médiévale (2001), p. 231).
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’).
- Information About Copies:
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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 1861-1875 (London: Longmans, 1877), p. 281.
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. 160, no. 93).
Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques des départements, 7 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1849-1885), I, ed. by Félix Ravaisson and Guillaume Libri, p. 702.
Monique Peyrafort-Huin, 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, 62, 76, 135 fig. 4, 186 n. 31, 215 n. 46, 232, 490, 525-26.
- 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.