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Add MS 24142
- Record Id:
- 032-002031425
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031425
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003d1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059153451.0x000001
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- Add MS 24142
- Title:
- Bible ('Bible of St Hubert', ‘Codex Hubertianus')
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This is one of the six extant copies of the thorough critical revision of St Jerome’s text of the Vulgate carried out around the year 800 by Theodulf (d. 821), bishop of Orléans and abbot of Fleury (c. 798-818). Arranged in three columns and written in a small hand more often used for glossing. Imperfect, wanting much of Genesis, the Minor Prophets, the Catholic Epistles, and all of the Acts and Book of Revelation. The manuscript is closely related to Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9380; Le Puy, Cathédrale, s.n., and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 11937 (Mostert, 'Library of Fleury' (1989), p. 105).
Contents:
f. 1r: Genesis, imperfect. Incipit: ‘in consilio eorum non veniat’ [49:6]. Explicit: ‘Explicit lib(er) Bresit id est genesis’.
ff. 1r-9r: Exodus, with capitula.
ff. 9r-15v: Leviticus, with capitula.
ff. 15v-24r: Numbers, with capitula.
ff. 24r-31v: Deuteronomy, with capitula.
ff. 31v-32r: St Jerome, prologue to Joshua. Heading: ‘Incipit secundus ordo prophetarum’.
ff. 32r-36v: Joshua, with capitula.
ff. 36v-42r: Judges, with capitula.
ff. 42r-42v: Ruth.
ff. 42v-43r: St Jerome, prologue to 1 Samuel.
ff. 43r-56r: 1-2 Samuel, with capitula.
ff. 56r-70v: 1-2 Kings, with capitula.
ff. 70v-71r: St Jerome, prologue to Isaiah.
ff. 71r-81v: Isaiah.
f. 81v: St Jerome, prologue to Jeremiah.
ff. 81v-95r: Jeremiah, with Baruch 1-5. [Incipit in different/later hand: ‘hic legitur dominica ante palmas’.]
ff. 95r-95v: Epistle of Jeremiah (Baruch 6).
ff. 95v-97r: Lamentations.
ff. 97r: St Jerome, prologue to Ezeckiel.
ff. 97r-108r: Ezeckiel.
f. 108r: St Jerome, prologue to Hosea.
ff. 108r-108v: Hosea. Imperfect: missing folios at the end. Explicit: ‘civitas operantium idolum subplantata’ (Hosea 6:8).
ff. 109r: St Jerome, prologue to Job.
ff. f. 109r-115r: Job, in verse lines.
ff. 115r-115v: Pseudo-Jerome, prologue to Psalms. Incipit: ‘In hebreo libro psalmorum’.
ff. 115v-131r: Psalms, iuxta Hebraeos.
ff. 131r-131v: St Jerome, extract from commentary on Ecclesiastes as preface for Proverbs. Rubric: ‘Incipit praefatio in Salomone(m)’. Incipit: ‘Tribus nominibus vocatum fuisse Salomonem’.
ff. 131v-136v: Proverbs.
ff. 136v-138v: Ecclesiastes.
ff. 138v-139v: Song of Songs.
f. 139v: St Jerome, prologue to Daniel.
f. 139v: Pseudo-Jerome, another prologue to Daniel. Incipit: ‘Danihel interpretatur iudiciu(m) d(e)i’.
ff. 139v-144r: Daniel.
f. 144v: St Jerome, prologue to 1-2 Paralipomenon. Incipit: ‘Si septuaginta interpraetum’.
f. 144v: Another prologue to 1-2 Paralipomenon. Rubric: ‘Item alia praefatia’. Incipit: ‘Eusebius Hieronimus domnioni et rogatiano’.
ff. 144v-157v: 1-2 Chronicles.
ff. 157v-158r: St Jerome, prologue to Ezra.
ff. 158r-163r: Ezra–Nehemiah.
ff. 163r-165v: Esther. Explicit: ‘Explicit tertius ordo agiograforum’.
ff. 165v: Isidore of Seville, prologue to Wisdom. Heading: ‘Incipit quartus ordo eorum librorum qui in veteri testamento extra canonem aebraeorum sunt’.
ff. 165v-169r: Wisdom.
f. 169r: St Jerome, prologue to Ecclesiasticus.
ff. 169r-178v: Ecclesiasticus with capitula.
ff. 178v: Isidore of Seville, prologue to Tobias.
ff. 178v-181r: Tobias.
f. 181r: St Jerome, prologue to Judith.
ff. 181r-184r: Judith. Addition of omitted passage (11:8-21) by slightly later hand in bottom margin.
f. 184r: Pseudo-Jerome, prologue to Maccabees.
ff. 184r-191v: 1 Maccabees.
ff. 191v-196v: 2 Maccabees.
f. 197r: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus. Incipit: ‘Beato pape Damaso’.
ff. 197r-197v: St Jerome prologue to the Gospels. Incipit: ‘Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt’.
ff. 198r-201r: Canon tables.
f. 202r: Prologue to Matthew. Incipit: ‘Mattheus ex Iudaea sicut in ordine’.
ff. 202r-209r: Matthew, with capitula.
f. 209r: Prologue to Mark. Incipit: ‘Marcus evangelista dei et Petri in baptismate’.
ff. 209r-213v: Mark, with capitula.
f. 213v: Prologue to Luke. Incipit: ‘Lucas syrus natione antiochensis’.
ff. 213v-221v: Luke, with capitula.
ff. 221v: Prologue to John. Incipit: ‘Tres evangeliste in his rebus’.
ff. 221v-227v: John, with capitula.
ff. 227v-229r: Prefatory matter for the Pauline Epistles: three prologues (ff. 227v-228r); Pope Damasus I, Versus in laudem Pauli apostoli (f. 228r); Peregrinus, Prooemium in epistulas Pauli, incipit: ‘Prologum subter adiectum sive kanones’ (f. 228r); the capitula for the Pauline Epistles (ff. 228r-229r).
ff. 229r-247r: Pauline Epistles, each preceded by capitula and argumentum, and excerpts from the anonymous Testimonia veteris testamenti in epistolis Pauli allegata inserted before the text of the epistle.
ff. 247r-247v: Pseudo-Jerome, prologue to the Catholic Epistles. Incipit and blank space for another prologue (247v).
ff. 247v-248r: James.
ff. 248r-248v: 1 Peter, with incipit and blank space for capitula. Imperfect, ending at 1 Peter 4:3.
[f. 201v is blank].
Decoration:
Canon tables with geometric and curvilinear decoration (ff. 198r-201r).
8 small rectangular borders (some three-sided) with simple foliate decoration around explicits and incipits in black or black and red (ff. 9v, 43v, 70v, 81v, 139v, 157v, 178v, 222r)
Small initials in black and sometimes red throughout, marking the start of texts and capitula. For Psalms (ff. 115v-131r), Gospels (ff. 202r-227v), and the Pauline and Catholic Epistles (ff. 230r-248v), larger initials with highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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A parchment codex
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 325 x 235 mm (text space: 265 x 200 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 248 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); numerous folios with lower or outer margins replaced with new parchment strips.
Collation: Mostly in quires of 10 leaves, but also some quires of 8 or 12, and three irregular quires: i-vi10 (ff. 1-60), vii10 (the fourth and seventh leaves are singletons; ff. 61-70), viii-x10 (ff. 71-100), xi8 (ff. 101-108), xii-xv10 (ff. 109-147), xvieleven (ff. 149-159), xvii8 (ff. 160-167), xviii12 (ff. 168-179), xix8 (ff. 180-187), xx10 (ff. 188-197), xxi4 (ff. 198-201), xxii-xxiv10 (ff. 202-231), xxvseven (ff. 232-238), xxvi10 (ff. 239-248).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown polished leather, re-backed at British Museum, blind-tooling and blind-stamped coat of arms.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Hubert, Ardennes (diocese of Liège), founded in 687: 17th-century ownership inscription, 'Mon[aste]rii S. Huberti in Ard[venna] cat[alogo] insertus' (f. 1r); same inscription, unabbreviated, on binding, front cover.
Purchased by the British Museum from Thomas and William Boone (fl. 1815-1870), antiquarian booksellers, on 18 May 1861 for £120, together with ten other items.
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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 1854 – 1875, II, (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 14.
Leopold Delisle, ‘Les bibles de Theodulfe’, Bibliotheque de l’Ecole des chartes, 40 (1879), 5-47 (pp. 30-31).
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, pp. 5-8, pl. 45.
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 4th edn, ed. by Edward Miller, 2 vols (London: George Bell, 1894), II, p. 68.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1900), no. XV.
British Museum Bible Exhibition 1911: Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version (London: British Museum, 1911), no. 15.
Biblia Sacra iuxta latinam vulgatam versionem ad codicum fidem, ed. by Francis Gasquet, 18 vols (Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1926-1995), sigla ΘH.
Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, rev. by A. W. Adams, with intro. by G. R. Driver (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1958), p. 260.
Bonifatius Fischer, ‘Bibeltext und Bibelreform unter Karl dem Grossen’, in Karl der Grosse, Lebenswerk und Nachleben, 4 vols, II, ed. by Wolfgang Braunfels (Düsseldorf: L. Schwann, 1965), pp.176, 178-82 (sigla ΘH).
Elisabeth Dahlhaus-Berg, Noua antiquitas et antiqua nouitas: Typologische Exegese und isidorianisches Geschichtsbild bei Theodulf von Orléans, Kölner historische Abhandlungen, 23 (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1975), pp. 40, 42, 49-50, 52, 55-57, 68, 71, 74.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Aus der Geschichte der lateinischen Bibel, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 52-53, 94, 96, 136, 138,140-46, 150, 181, 240A, 324, 376.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols, I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13 (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), p. 23*.
Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West (Notre Dame & London: Notre Dame University Press, 1993), no. 6.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 101 (no. 2391).
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 35, fig. 22.
Paul Saenger with Laura Bruck, ‘The Anglo-Hebraic Origins of the Modern Chapter Division of the Latin Bible’, in La fractura historiográfica: Las investigaciones de Edad Media y Renacimiento desde el tercer milenio, ed. by Javier San José Lera, Javier Burguillo and Laura Maier (Salamanca, 2008), pp. 177-202 (p. 189).
Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, 'The Latin Bible, C. 600 to C. 900', in The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2, ed. by Richard Marsden and E. A. Matter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 69-92 (p. 83).
H. A. G. Houghton, The Latin New Testament: A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 86, 130, and esp. 269-70.
Eyal Poleg, Approaching the Bible in Medieval England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), p. 124.
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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- 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.