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032-002041932

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Add MS 12213

Title:

Pilgrims' Guide to Compostela; Turpin's Chronicle; Liturgical and other texts relating to St James

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-111r: Book I, Liturgy of St James: texts for the Office and Mass of his feasts, preceded by a prologue in the form of a letter of Pope Calixtus, 'Epistula Beati Calixti Pape', and list of 31 chapters.

ff. 111r-126v: Book II, Miracles associated with St James, preceded by a prologue and list of 22 chapters.

ff. 126v-132v: Book III, Translation of St James; a leaf is missing after f. 132, perhaps containing a miniature and the opening of Book IV.

ff. 133r-159v: Book IV: Pseudo Turpin's Chronicle, including an account of the Battle of Roncevaux, preceded by a list of 26 chapters.

ff. 159v-180v: Book V: Pilgrim's Guide to Compostela; the long version with colophon, preceded by a list of 11 chapters.

ff. 180v-182v: Hymns, including the Pilgrims' Hymn.

ff. 182v-183v: Part of a Mass, beginning, 'Rex inmense pietatis deus suscipe hanc oblacionem'; a false bull of Pope Innocent II.

f. 183v: Alberic of Vezelay's Miracle of 1139; Alleluia in Greek, followed by a colophon in a different hand, 'Iam liber est scriptus: qui scripsit sit Benedictus; Qui scripsit scribat. Et semper cum domino vivat - laborans; Et a domino Petro donum promissum no admittat'.

ff. 184r-190r: An added commentary on Job in Spanish, with biblical quotations in Latin, written in a late 14th-century cursive script.

This is one of only four illustrated copies of the text, of which the earliest is the 12th century 'Codex Calixtinus', Santiago de Compostella, Cathedral Archive (no shelf number).

Decoration:

A large drawing of James appearing to a Charlemagne in a dream, in ink with colour washes preceding the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle (f. 132v). A small drawing of James in ink, with purple and red (f. 3v). A marginal drawing of the castle and lion of Castilla y Leon in red (f. 1r). A large initial in blue surrounded by penwork decoration in red, and red and blue penwork decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). Initials in red with penwork decoration in purple, or in blue with penwork decoration in red, some with pen-flourishing, forming marginal fish (f. 40v). Rubrics in alternating letters of red and brown, with vertical red lines in the letters (f. 1r). Other rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin
Spanish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 155 mm (text space: 165 x 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. 191 (f. 191 is a parchment flyleaf + 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation: i-vii¹², viii⁸, ix-xi¹², xii^12-1, xiii-xiv⁸.

Script: Gothic and gothic cursive.

Binding: British Library in-house (rebound in 1980).

Custodial History:

Origin: ?Santiago de Compostela, Western Spain.

Provenance:

Added colophon: 'Iam liber est scriptus: qui scripsit sit benedictus/Qui scriptsit scribat semper cum domino vivat laborens/Et a domino Petro donum piissimum non admittat' (f. 183v).

Text in Spanish written in a 14th-century cursive hand on ff. 184r-190v; added to the manuscript by 1375 as it was described in Luna's catalogue of that date (see below).

Pedro de Luna, [anti-] Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1328, d. 1423): in the catalogue of his books made in 1375 when he became cardinal: '1556. Item epistola beati Calixti pape, cooperta de viridi, incipit in secundo folio: magna, et finit in penultimo: sepulcro'; and no 13 in the list of books in his special library (1405-1407); no 575 in the earliest inventory of his Great Library at Peniscola near Valencia (1412-1415) and no 559 in the inventory made at Peniscola on his death in 1423 (see Stones, Pilgrims Guide (1998) p. 110).

Magistro Subirats, possibly given to him by the court in lieu of fees in connection with de Luna's estate: a note in the 1423 inventory states, 'Fuit traditus liber iste magistro Subirats pro provisione' (see Stones, Pilgrims Guide (1998) p. 110).

Numerous marginal notations in a hand of the 18th century.

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: an extract from his printed catalogue, p. 21, lists the manuscript as item 54, priced at £3 3s (paste-down to f. [iii]r); purchased from him by the British Museum on 4 December, 1841: a note on f. [iii]r.

Publications:

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 562-71.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 53.

Alison Stones, 'Four Illustrated Jacobus Manuscripts' in The Vanishing past: studies of medieval art, liturgy and metrology presented to Christopher Hohler, ed. by Alan Borg and Andrew Martindale, BAR International Series 111 (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1981), pp. 197-222 (p. 215).

Alison Stones and others, The Pilgrim's Guide: A Critical Edition, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1998), I, 109-13, and passim, as 'A', pls 47-51. [with extensive additional bibliography].

Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their Sacred Texts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 212 [exhibition catalogue].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Benedict XIII, Antipope, 1328-1423
Calixtus II, Pope, Guy of Burgundy, r. 1119-1124
Rodd, Thomas, bookseller, 1796-1849

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1883):

'CALIXTI Papæ II. [A.D. 1119 to 1124.] Liber de vita, passione et miraculis S. Jacobi, Galleciæ Patroni, partim ex Hieronymi, Ambrosii, Augustini, Gregorii, Bedæ, Maximi, Leonis et aliorum scriptis compilatus, et in v. libros distributus; præmissa Epistola ad conventum Cluniacensem, Guillermum, Patriarcham Hierosolymitanum, et Didacum, Archiepiscopum Compostellanensem. In the fourth book is incorporated the fabulous history of Turpin, and in the fifth is some valuable topographical information on the different modes of travelling to Compostella. At the close of the volume are some Homilies, in Spanish, added by a later hand. On vellum, written in a Spanish hand of the xivth century. Quarto.'