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- Record Id:
- 032-002031428
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031428
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003d4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059099031.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24145
- Title:
- Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot contains one of the more than forty extant copies of the world chronicle that Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1028, d. 1112), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Gembloux and St Vincent in Metz, wrote between c. 1086 and 1106. The world chronicle covers the period from 381 to his own time, with a continuation by Anselm of Gembloux (d. 1136), covering the years 1112-1135. The manuscript also contains additions relating to the history of Stavelot, added by different scribes: a calendar recording the obits of the monks at Stavelot as well as notes about events at Stavelot, and the monastery’s lands.
Contents:
ff. 2v-7r: Calendar of obits of the monks of Stavelot.
ff. 8v-75v: Sigebert of Gembloux (d. 1122), Chronica sive chronographia universalis, (the title added by a scribe writing in a 15th-century script: ‘Chronica sigeberti gemblacensis monachi’), with the continuation of Anselm de Gembloux (d. 1136) to the year 1131.
ff. 76v-79r: Copies of letters regarding the Third Crusade: a bull of Pope Gregory VIII calling for the Third Crusade, dated to 1187 (ff. 76v-77r); Henry of Marcy (d. 1189), Cardinal Bishop of Albano, to Emperor Frederic I, dated to 1187 (ff. 77r-77v); Thierry, Grand Preceptor of the Templars, to the Order, on Third Crusade, dated to 1187 (f. 77v); Henry of Marcy (d. 1189), Cardinal Bishop of Albano, address at Diet of Mainz in 1188 (f. 78v); Pope Adrian IV to Emperor Frederic I (f. 78v) and his reply, dated to 1159 (ff. 78v-79r).
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 2r: A note by the porter of Stavelot written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) on the lands surrounding the monastery
ff. 7v-8r: An astrological prognostication about the coming of a new sect and religious change in 1349, with an astrological diagram in the margin of f. 7r.
ff. 75v-76r: Notes relating to Stavelot, concerning events in 1232-1253, and the lands of the monastery, written by different scribes.
ff. 79r-79v: Notes relating to Stavelot, concerning events in 1238-1253, and the lands of the monastery, written by different scribes.
Decoration:
1 large foliate initial in red ink (f. 8v). Small initials in red and brown 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:
- 032-002031428
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031428
- 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_100059099031.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 215 mm (text space: 265 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. 79 ( + 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. [ii], [iii], [80] and [81] are modern parchment flyleaves; f. 1 is a 19th-century paper containing a description of the manuscript in French.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Green Morrocan leather, bound by Hippolyte Duru (b. 1803, d. 1884), Parisian bookbinder, in 1847 (print on f. [i] verso: ‘DURU 1847’); the spine was inscribed in gold by the British Museum: ‘SIGBERTI GEMBLACENSIS CHRONICA’; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Stavelot, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, founded c. 650, until 1847 (the sale of its manuscripts): a 19th-century note about the manuscript’s provenance (f. 1r); 12th-century obits of monks at Stavelot (ff. 2v-7r) and 12th- and 13th-century notes about events at Stavelot and the monastery's lands (ff. 2r, 75v-76r, and 79r-79v).
Thomas Boone (b. 1790, d. 1873) and William Boone (b. 1795, d. 1870), London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum on 18 May 1861 (note on f. [ii] recto: ‘Purchased of Messrs Boone 18th May 1861’) for £140.
- 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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Theodor Gottlieb, Über Mittelalterliche Bibliotheken (Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1890), p. 292.
Joseph Halkin, ‘Inventaire des archives de l'abbaye de Stavelot-Malmedy’, Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire, 5th series, 7 (Brussels: Hayez, 1897), 233-448 (p. 444 (no. 1107)).
Sylvain Balau, Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Âge: étude critique (Brussels: Lamertin, 1903), p. 263.
Ursmer Berlière, ‘Abbaye de Stavelot-Malmédy’, in Monasticon Belge, 8 parts in 23 vols (Maredsous: Maredsous Abbey, 1890-1993), II.1 (1928): Province de Liège, pp. 58-105 (p. 59)
Georg Waitz, ‘Notae Stabulenses (1232-1253)’, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum, 24 (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1879), p. 32.
John H. Pryor, ‘Two Excitationes for the Third Crusade: the Letters of Brother Thierry of the Temple’, Mediterranean Historical Review, 25:2 (2010), 147-68 (p. 148).
Nicolas Schroeder, ‘Villa, ban, court et mairie. Formation et définition des frontières locales dans les seigneuries de l’abbaye de Stavelot-Malmedy (XIe-XVe s.)’, in Reconnaître et délimiter l'espace localement au Moyen Âge, ed. by Nacima Baron and other, Limites et frontières (Lille: Septentrion, 2016), pp. 55-72.
- 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.