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Add MS 21914
- Record Id:
- 032-002034380
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034380
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0002c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055986811.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21914
- Title:
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Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia; A glossary of Hebrew names (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript from the first third of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 100) was written at the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. The manuscript contains the Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia (Collections of Readings on the Epistles and Gospels), also known as the Expositio Libri Comitis by Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), a monk from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Mihiel near Verdun. The work contains biblical lections with commentaries from patristic sources organised to the liturgical year. Although the manuscript may have been used in the liturgy of the Divine Office, the many (erased) marginal annotations also suggest that it was used for study purposes as well. The manuscript remained at Luxeuil for at least nine centuries, which is indicated by the early 18th-century notes that were added by Luxeuil’s subprior Victor Perrin (d. 1740). The manuscript most likely remained at Luxeuil until the abbey’s dissolution during the French Revolution.
Contents:
ff. 5r-6r: A table of contents, imperfect.
ff. 6r-179r : Smaragdus, of Saint-Mihiel Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia.
f. 179v: A glossary of Hebrew names, imperfect, beginning ‘Incipiunt interp[retationum] nominum hebraicum’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
ff. 2r-4v: A description of the manuscript by (‘Notes sur ce Manuscrit’) by Victor Perrin.
[f. 1v is blank].
Decoration:
Medium initials in brown ink, some highlighted in yellow (f. 7v) or green (f. 136r). Medium initials in red. Display capitals and rubrics in red, some highlighted in green (f. 135v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034380
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034380
- 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_100055986811.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm (text space: 215 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 179 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); ff. 1-4 are modern paper leaves; 2 paper pastedowns (with bibliographical notes) on f. [ii] recto; a paper with an old shelf-mark (‘5 M 9 S’) in a red frame pasted on f. 1r; pagination in Roman numerals throughout the manuscript. The outer margins of ff. 40, 41, 44, 45, 47, 80, 88, and 112 have been replaced; the lower margins of ff. 88, 92, 95, 98 have been replaced; the lower half of f. 120 has been replaced with new parchment. Numerous other parchment repairs throughout the manuscript.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house: gold-tooled brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘COMMENTARIUS IN EPISTOLAS ET EVANGELIA.’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Luxeuil-les-Bains, Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, owned until the early 18th century: as suggested by the Luxeuil script and notes by Victor Perrin; its marginal notations (erased) throughout the manuscript; added neumes on f. 28r.
Victor Perrin (d. 1740), monk and subprior at the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil: his notes on the manuscript (ff. 2r-4v).
'Baron Marguery': his sale at Paris, 27-28 February 1857, lot 2 (see f. [iv] recto: 'Sale at Paris 27-28 Feb. Lot 2'; and Jones, ‘Dom Victor Perrin’ (1939), p. 173).
Thomas Boone (b. 1790, d. 1873) and William Boone (b. 1795, d. 1870), London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum on 14 March 1857 (see f. [iv] recto: ‘Purchased of Boone 14 March 1857’) for £ 15.0.0.
- 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 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), p. 557.
Karl Zangemeister, ‘Bericht über die im Auftrage der Kirchenväter-Commission unternommene Durchforschung der Bibliotheken Englands’, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 84 (1876), 485-584 (pp. 529-30).
Leslie Webber Jones, ‘Dom Victor Perrin and Three Manuscripts of Luxeuil’, The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 23:1 (1939), 166-81 (pp. 167, 168-74, 174, 178).
Fidel Rädle, Studien zu Smaragd von Saint-Mihiel, Medium Aevum, Philologische Studien, 29 (Munich: Fink, 1974), p. 121.
Robert G. Babcock, ‘Angelomus and Manuscripts from the Luxeuil Library’, Aevum, 74: 2 (2000), 431-40 (p. 433 n. 9, 437, 440).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2004), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 100 (no. 2388).
- 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.