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- Record Id:
- 032-002032298
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002032298
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x00012d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055991523.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 25014
- Title:
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Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christi et prebiter. Hystoriam gentis anglorum ecclesiasticam quam nuper edideram'. Book 1 (ff. 4r-26r), preceded by capitula (ff. 4r-v), beginning: 'Brittannia [the word quondam has been erased] Oceani Insula cui quondam Albion nomen fuit'; Book 2 (ff. 26r-45r), preceded by capitula (ff. 26r-v), beginning: 'His temporibus id est anno dominice incarnationis sexcentesimo quinto'; Book 3 (ff. 45r-69r), preceded by capitula (ff. 45r-v), beginning: 'At interfecto in pugna Eduuino suscepit pro illo regnum Deorum'; Book 4 (ff. 69r-92v), preceded by capitula (ff. 69r-v), beginning: 'In anno memorato prefate eclipsis et mox sequentis prestilentie'; Book 5 (ff. 92v-115r), preceded by capitula (ff. 92v-93r), beginning: 'Successit autem viro Dei Cudberchto', ending: 'et confiteantur memorie sanctitatis eius'; the epitome (ff. 115r-117r), beginning: 'Verum ea que distinctione tempororum (sic) latius digesta sunt', ending: 'et parere semper ante faciem tuam'; the work ends with the last paragraph of the preface (f. 117r): 'apud omnes fructum piae intercessionis inveniam'.
ff. 117r-118v: Cuthbert of Wearmouth (fl. 735), Epistola de obitu Bedae (Epistle on Bede's death), beginning: 'Dilectissimo in Christo lectori Cuthuuino Cuthbertus condiscipulus in Deo eternam salutem'.
f. 118v: Anonymous, a set of annals on the see of Whithorn commonly called de eo quod episcopi (Regarding why the Bishops), relating to the subjection of Whithorn to the archbishops of York, beginning: 'In hystoria et veteribus anglorum voluminibus de ecclesie candide case episcopis que alio vocabulo ab incolis hpltaerne (sic) nuncupatur'.
ff. 118v-119v: Anonymous, Memoriae Sancti Andrae in Scotia (Memorial to St Andrew in Scotland), beginning: 'Qualiter acciderit quod memoria sancti Andreæ Apostoli amplius in Scotia sit quam in ceteris regionibus. Andreas qui interpretatur secundum Hebream ethimologiam'; ending: 'Quorum corpora hic requiesciunt'.
f. 119v: Excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin), imperfect: 'Incipit prefatio Ambrosii Merlini de regibus Anglie. Coegit me Alexander Lincolnensis presul'; ending: 'et ut omnes philosophos totius Brittannie insule'. 'Gaufridi Monemutensis in prophetiam' (Geoffrey of Montmouth on prophecy) is written above the rubric.
Decoration:
Large initials in blue, red, or green, some with penwork decoration in the same colour at the beginning of books (e.g. ff. 3r, 4v, 26v, 45v, 69v). Smaller initials in red, blue and green. Rubrics and line fillers 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:
- 032-002032298
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002032298
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055991523.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm (text space: 230 x 150 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 119 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 1-2 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with an erased seal on the front cover showing evidence of a coat of arms which was probably highlighted in gold.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northumbria.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Newminster, founded in 1137: erased ownership inscription beginning 'Liber [...]' (f. 2v, upper margin), (see Colgrave, Bede's Ecclesiastical History (1969) and Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1964)); two notes, one in Old French and the other in English recording that Edward Balliol (b. c. 1281; d. 1364), claimant to the Scottish throne, paid homage to King Edward III at Newcastle-upon-Tyne 'in Novo Castro super Tynam in ecclesiam', 19 June 1334 (f. 2v); note on the damage done in the monastery by the Scots on 15 July 1333, who were nearly all killed at Berwick five days later (f. 2v).
John Bale (b. 1495; d. 1563), bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist and historian: wrote and signed a 8-line epitaph on Bede and a 12-line note on Bede (f. 2v).
Sir Francis St John (d. 1756), 1st baronet of Longthorpe: inscribed 'Jure me tenet Franciscus St John' (ff. 1r, 2r); probably written by him, notes on Cuthbert's epistle and on Simon of Durham (f. 2r; lower margin).
Sir Francis Palgrave (b. 1788; d. 1861), archivist and historian: his sale, 20 November, 1862, lot 90 purchased by the British Museum, inscription (f. [iii]).
- 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 MDCCCLIV-MDCCCLXXV (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 140.
Venerabilis Baedae opera historica, ed. by Charles Plummer, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1896), I, p. cvii (as A5).
Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Manuscripts of Caedmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937), p. 8.
M.L.W. Laistner and H.H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 97.
R. J. Brentano, 'Whithorn and York', The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 32, 114:2 (Oct., 1953), pp. 144-46.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, ed. by N.R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 134.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. by Bertram Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. xlix.
Gerald Bonner, Wearmouth, Bede, and Christian Culture: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at The Central Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland (Sunderland: [n. pub.], 1974), no. 13.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, 'The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts', in Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994), pp. 451-69 (p. 458).
Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), p. 75.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 216, 228, 231.
Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum, ed. by Michael D. Reeve and trans. by Neil Wright (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007), p. xxix.
Richard Gameson, 'Bede in Durham Cathedral Library: Notes on Material Exhibited on 7 August 2008' ([n.p.]: [n. pub], [n.d.]).
Richard Gameson, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), p. 60.
Peter Beal and others, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (London: Kings College, 2013) http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-25000.html [accessed 18 November 2016].
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 18 November 2016].
- 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.