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Add MS 24143
- Record Id:
- 032-002031426
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031426
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003d2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055990398.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24143
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 2-5)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-59v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on the Book of Job) (imperfect), beginning at the end of chapter 52 (Book 2): '[...] concremare [est flamma eas] divini amoris incendere, ut totum cor in Dei amore ardeat'. Book 2 ends imperfectly in the middle of chapter 56 (f. 2v): 'sed quae virtutis'; one quire is lacking; Book 3 (ff. 3r-5r) begins in the middle of chapter 3 (f. 3r): 'non frustra percussus est'; ending (f. 5r): 'ut expositionis ramos postmodum prout singular expetunt loca producamus. Explicit Liber Tertius'; Book 4 (ff. 5v-41r), beginning: 'Qui textum considerat et sensum sacrae loquutionis ignorat', ending: 'Et servus liber a domino suo. Explicit Liber quartus'; Book 5 (ff. 41r-59v), beginning: 'Incipit Liber quintus. Cum valde occulta sint divina judicia'; the end is damaged and the text partially erased, ending with Book 5 chapter 45: 'ut bestialiter solus vivat'.
Decoration:
Decorated initials in brown, some with geometrical, zoomorphic or floral motifs, at the beginning of books and chapters, including an initial 'Q'(ui) at the beginning of Book 3 (f. 5v) with fish. Uncial initials in brown and rubrics in capitals in brown (ff. 5v). A circle containing text surrounded by dots (f. 3r-v).
Although the leaves have been cropped in the upper and lower margins, some quire signatures in medallions (e.g., f. 54v) and running titles (e.g., f. 13r) are still legible.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031426
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031426
- 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_100055990398.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0775
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm (text space: 220 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 59 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Blue leather binding with marbled paper for pastedowns.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Corbie, Northern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St-Pierre, Corbie: perhaps copied produced there, according to Jones, 'The Scriptorium at Corbie' (1947)'.
Bought by the British Museum for £15 from Messrs Boone booksellers on 18 May 1861 with 13 other manuscripts.
- 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 1854-1875, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1877), II, no. 24143.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1884), II, p. 51.
Wallace Martin Lindsay, Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin MSS. of the Early Minuscule Period (c. 700-850) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915) p. 385.
E. H. Zimmermann, Vorkarolingische Miniaturen, Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst: Malerei, 3 (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916), pp. 73, 207.
Wallace Martin Lindsay, Paleographia Latina, 2 vols (St Andrews: Humphrey Milford, 1922), I, pp. 12, 25, 39.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 170.
Leslie Webber Jones, 'The Scriptorium at Corbie: The Script and the Problems', Speculum, 22:3 (1947), 375-94 (p. 383).
G. I. Bonner, 'Latin Patristic Manuscripts of the British Museum', in Studia Patristica: Papers presented to the Second International Conference in Patristic Studies held at Christ Church, Oxford, ed. by Kurt Aland and F. L. Cross, 2 vols (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1957), pp. 15-23.
Louise P. M. Batstone, 'Doctrinal and Theological themes in the prayers of the Bobbio Missal', in The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul, ed. by Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 168-86 (p. 176).
Jesse Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages: The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400-900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 237.
- 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.