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Add MS 21986
- Record Id:
- 032-002034449
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034449
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x000303
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060367145.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21986
- Title:
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258), bishop of Carthage.
Contents:
ff. 2r-97r: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Incipiunt epistolae sancti Cipriani cartaginensis episcopi et martyrii’.
[f. 97v is blank].
Decoration:
One large initial with interlace and arabesque decoration in red, blue, yellow, and green (f. 2v); 9 small inhabited initials showing human figures in red, green, and blue (ff. 23r, 26r, 40r, 46r, 49v, 55r, 59r, 60v, 61r); large initials, some with arabesque decoration (ff. 33v, 84v, 91r); small initials with arabesque decoration in red, blue, and green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034449
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034449
- 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_100060367145.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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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: 280 x 190 mm (text space: 210 x 130 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 97 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘S. CYPRIANI EPISTOLAE’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Liessies, Northern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Saint Lambert at Liessies, founded around 750: its ownership inscription (‘Liber Sancti Lamberti Lesciensis’) in a 12th-century hand on f. 97r; probably inscribed the title (‘Ep[isto]le Beati Cipriani Epi[scopi]’), written in a 12th-century script, on a parchment strip (that formerly belonged to the spine of the original binding) pasted on f. 1r; its ownership inscription (‘Liber monasterii S. Lamberti Laetiensis prope Avesnas in Hannonia cui restituendus est’) added in a 17th-century hand on f. 1v; inscribed by Etienne Baluze (b. 1630, d. 1718), scholar, when the manuscript was on loan to him: ‘Liber monasterii S. Lamberti Laetiensis in Hannonia restituendus infra tres menses per D[omi]n[u]m de Baluze, datus hac 18 Maii 1703’ (f. 2r) and ‘Liber Laetiensis infra tres menses restituendus 18 Maii 1703’ (f. 96v); the abbey probably owned the manuscript until it was dissolved by French Revolutionary forces in 1791.
John Payne and Henry Foss (fl. 1825-1850), London booksellers: London antiquarian booksellers: their sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 April 1857, Lot 110. Purchased by the British Museum.
- 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. 567.
Jean Leclercq, 'Les manuscrits de l'abbaye de Liessies', Scriptorium, 6 (1952), 51-62 (p. 57).
Pierre Petitmengin, ‘Un monument controversé, le « Saint Cyprien » de Baluze et Dom Maran (1726)’, Revue d’Histoire des Textes, 5 (1977), 97-136 (p. 128).
- 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.