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Add MS 14250
- Record Id:
- 032-002036678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002036678
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0000b1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059052444.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14250
- Title:
- Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177
- Scope & Content:
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This is the only extant manuscript from the Augustinian priory of Saints Peter and Paul in Plympton. The manuscript contains a copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) that Bede (d. 673, d. 735), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, completed in 731. Bede's Historia has been complemented with annals from Plympton priory, listing details about its priors, the Province of Canterbury, the kings and queens of England, and astronomical phenomena.
Contents:
f. 2v: An excerpt from Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons), on the division of the world among the sons of Noah, beginning ‘Tres filii Noe diviserunt orbem in tres partes post diluvium’.
ff. 3r-148r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, beginning ‘Incipit Prefatio Bede Presbiteri De Hystoria Gentis Anglorum’ (Books I-V).
ff. 148v-150v: Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177.
[ff. 1r-2r are blank].
Decoration:
1 large puzzle initial in blue and green (f. 5r). 1 large red initial with penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 84v). Large and small initials in red, green or blue. Manicules in brown ink (added by different owners) 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:
- 032-002036678
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002036678
- 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_100059052444.0x000001
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 180 mm (text space: 205 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 150 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); three-quarters of f. 2 lacking but replaced with another parchment leaf; the quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house: brown half leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘BEDE HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA’. Gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Plympton, Southwestern England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian priory of Saints Peter and Paul in Plympton: a 14th(?)-century ownership inscription on f. 3r: ‘Liber domum Plympton’.
Unidentified English owners, 13th-17th century: their notes in Latin and English in the margins throughout the manuscript.
John Moore (b. 1646, d. 1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely: in a letter dated 30 August 1714, Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) writes to Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741) that a manuscript that can be identifies as Add MS 14250 (according to Wanley it contains ‘Bedae Histor. Eccles.’ and was ‘formerly belonging to the Monastery of Plympton’) is listed in Moore’s catalogue of manuscripts, but is either ‘lent out, mislaid, or lost’ (see Heyworth, Letters of Humfrey Wanley (1989), p. 301).
Jeremiah Milles (b. 1714, d. 1784), antiquary and dean of Exeter: possibly added the title on f. 1r: ‘Part of Venerable Bede Historia Anglia’; his sale Sotheby’s, London, 15 April 1843, lot 1168 (a note on f. 1v: ‘Purchased at the sale of Dean Milles’s library at Sotheby’s 15 April 1843 (Lot 1168)’) for £29.10.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: Woodfall, 1850), p. 48.
Thomas Duffus Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the End of the Reign of Henry VII, 3 vols (London: Longman, Roberts and Green, 1862-1871; repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), II (1865; repr. 2012): From A. D. 1066 to A. D. 1200, p. 409.
Felix Liebermann, Ungedruckte Anglo-Normannische Geschichtsquellen (Strasbourg: Trübner, 1879), pp. 25-30 (‘Annales Plymptonienses’).
Frances Rose-Troup, Exeter Vignettes: Clarembald and the Miracles of Exeter; Exeter in Norman Days; the Murder of the Precentor (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1942), pp. 25-26, n. 21.
Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner and Henry Hall King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 97.
Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd edition (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 152.
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. liii.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: British Museum Publications, 1979), I, no.103.
P. L. Heyworth, Letters of Humfrey Wanley: Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), p. 301.
Teresa Webber, ‘Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica as a Source of Lections in Pre- and Post- Conquest England’, in The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past, ed. by Martin Brett and David Woodman (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 47-74 (p. 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.