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Add MS 24144
- Record Id:
- 032-002031427
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031427
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055990657.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24144
- Title:
- Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments)
- Scope & Content:
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This is a collection of fragments of a copy of the Historiae Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans) by Paulus Orosius (fl. 5th century) that was written in the 1st quarter of the 8th century. The palaeographical features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Northern Italy, but it was cut and used for binding purposes at the Benedictine monastery of St Remaclus in Stavelot (Wallonia) in the 16th century. 13 fragments of the text survive: 7 in Add MS 24144; 2 in Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 19609; 2 in Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS II 7478; 1 in Hanover, Kestner-Museum CUL. I. 42; 1 in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. MS 10399 (fol. 3); and 3 that were in Brussels as early as 1826. These last ones appear to be lost. The London leaves were removed from the binding of Add MS 28106 and Add MS 28107 (The Stavelot Bible, vol. 1 and vol. 2).
Contents:
ff. 1r-7v: Fragments of Paulus Orosius, Historiae Adversus Paganos.
Decoration:
Large and small capitals in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031427
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031427
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment fragments
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055990657.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0724
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 130/290 x 100/235 mm (text space: 245 x 200 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 7 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1-7 have been foliated as ff. '8-14' and old foliation (ff. ‘1-7’) has been crossed out; a modern unfoliated paper leaf has been inserted between each folio; ff. 10, 11, and 13 have been mounted on paper guards; a booklet of 7 paper leaves with a description of the fragments has been inserted and mounted on a paper guard between f. [iii] and f. [iv].
Script: Uncial.
Binding: Post-1600. Red half leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘FRAGM. COD. OROS.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Northern Italy or ? Stavelot, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The manuscript may have been produced in Northern Italy or at the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, founded c. 650 (see Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, II (1935), p. 15 (no. 171); V (1950), p. 22 (no. **171); X (1963), p. 31 (no. **171); Supplement (1971), p. 9 (no. **171)).
The Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, owned from at least the 15th century century until the sale of its manuscripts at Ghent in 1847: two 15th-century ownership inscriptions (f. 1v: ‘liber ecclesie divi Remacli in Stabulans’; f. 5v: ‘liber ecclesie sancti remacli in stabulensis’). The London leaves were used as binding materials for Add MS 28106 and Add MS 28107 (The Stavelot Bible, vol. 1 and vol. 2). The fragments were removed from the binding and bound together after the sale of Stavelot’s manuscripts in 1847 and before their purchase by Thomas and William Boone in 1861.
Thomas Boone (b. 1790, d. 1873) and William Boone (b. 1795, d. 1870), London booksellers, in 1861: purchased from them by the British Museum (a note on f. [iii] recto: ‘Purchased of Messrs Boone 18th May 1861’) for £35.0.0.
- 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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Matthieu Lambert Polain, 'Notice sur un fragment de manuscrit de la fin du VIe ou de la première Moitié du VIIe siècle', AcadémieRoyale de Belgique (Brussels: n. pub., 18xx, n. d.), pp. 3-7.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: Clowes, 1877), p. 15
Elias Avery Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century, 11 vols + supplement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1971), II (1935), p. 15 (no. 171); V (1950), p. 22 (no. **171); X (1963), p. 31 (no. **171); Supplement (1971), p. 9 (no. **171).
Leslie-W. Jones, ‘Ancient Prickings in Eight-Century Manuscripts’, Scriptorium, 15 (1961), 14-22 (p. 16).
J. M. Bately and D. J. A. Ross, ‘A Checklist of Manuscripts of Orosius “Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri Septem”’, Scriptorium, 15 (1961), 329-34 (p. 331, no. 81).
Lars Boje Mortensen, ‘The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List Of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts’, Filologia Mediolatina, 6-7 (2000), 101-200 (pp. 121, 132).
- 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.