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Add MS 22278
- Record Id:
- 032-002034751
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034751
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0003be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059056902.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22278
- Title:
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St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of Liessies in Northern France, which owned the manuscript in the 12th century, possibly until around the mid-19th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r-122r: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, Books 11-18.
Decoration:
8 large initials with pen-work in red and green, containing foliate decoration, knot-work and zoomorphic figures, against a background in green, red, purple and imitation gold (ff. 1r, 15r, 29r, 43v, 58v, 71v, 87r, 103v). 1 medium initial with foliate decoration in green and red against a background in red and imitation gold (f. 1v). Small initials in red and green with green or red pen-work throughout the manuscript, two with human heads drawn in brown ink: one without colours (f. 7v), and one with colours (f. 64r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002034751", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 22278: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034751
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034751
- 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_100059056902.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 255 mm (text space: 270 x 175 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: (+ 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: 14th-century (see Weale and Taylor, Early Stamped Bookbindings (1922), p. 8) blind-tooled brown leather binding, rebacked and the spine inscribed in gold by the British Museum: 'HIERONYMI COMMENTARIORUM IN ISAIAM PROPHETAM. LIBRI XI-XVIII.'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Liessies, Northern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Lambert in Liessies, in the 12th century, perhaps owned until the first half of the 19th century: a 12th-century note on the inside of the upper cover: ‘Liber · Sancti · Lamberti ·’; a 12th-century note on f. 1r: ‘Letiensis’.
Mortiaux-Denoël (‘Le fonds’ (1991), no. 171) attributes this manuscript to the Benedictine abbey of St James in Louvain, but there is no evidence to support this.
Thomas Boone (b. 1790, d. 1873) and William Boone (b. 1795, d. 1870), London booksellers: purchased from them (note on f. [i] recto: 'Purchased of Messrs Boone 9 January 1858') by the British Museum as part of a group of 5 manuscripts (for the sum of £70) on 9 January 1858.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Antonius Sanderus, Bibliotheca belgica manuscripta, sive Elenchus universalis codicum MSS. in celebrioribus Belgii cænobijs, Ecclesijs, urbium, ac privatorum hominum bibliothecis, adhuc latentium, 2 vols (Lille: Le Clercq, 1641-644), II, p. 24.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), pp. 622-23.
W. H. James Weale and Lawrence Taylor, Early Stamped Bookbindings in the British Museum; Descriptions of 385 Blind-stamped Bindings of the XIIth-XVth Centuries in the Departments of Manuscripts and Printed Books (London: Longmans & Green, 1922), p. 8 (no. 17).
Christine Mortiaux-Denoël, ‘Le fonds des manuscrits de l'abbaye de Saint-Jacques de Liège’, Revue bénédictine, 101 (1991), 154-91.
Christine Mortiaux-Denoël et É. Guillaume, ‘Le fonds des manuscrits de l'abbaye Saint-Jacques de Liège. II. Dispersion et localisation actuelle’, Revue bénédictine, 107 (1997), pp. 352-80 (no. 171).
Angela M. Lucas and Peter J. Lucas, ‘Lost and Found: Some Manuscripts from Liège now in Maynooth’, Scriptorium, 58.1 (2004), 83-99 (p. 87 n. 22).
Roger Gryson, Scientiam salutis: quarante années de recherches sur l’antiquité chrétienne, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, 211 (Louvain: Peeters, 2008), p. 582.
- 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.