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Add MS 69999
- Record Id:
- 032-002043437
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002043437
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0002d2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 69999
- Title:
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Anthology of popular tales and fables
- Scope & Content:
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An anthology of approximately 380 popular tales and fables, used by preachers and others to illustrate moral points. The texts are arranged under subject headings, resembling in this respect the Speculum Laicorum of John of Hoveden (d. 1272-75).
See Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, III, pp. 370-414. In its citation of sources the present manuscript resembles Harley MS 495 (Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, III, p. 534).
Major sources for the collection include Gregory the Great's Dialogues, Cassian's Collationes, Boethius's De Disciplina Scolarium, Cassiodorus's Tripartite History, Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, Valerius Maximus, Jerome's Epistles, William of Malmesbury's De Gestis Anglorum (f. 28r), Alexander Neckam's De Naturis Rerum (ff. 19v, 127r) and numerous Vitae. These include extracts from the Lives of St Cuthbert, St Willibrord, St Wilfrid and St Godric.
Contents:
ff. 1r-131v: Anthology of 380 popular tales and fables, arranged under subject headings.
Decoration:
Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or blue with red pen-flourishing. Large plain initials in red.
Running-titles and marginal notes in red frames and cartouches.
Paraph marks in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002043437
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002043437
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_69999 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1340
- Date Range:
- Early 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm (written space: 110 x 67 mm), written in single columns of 25 lines.
Foliation: ff. 131.
Collation: i-viii16, ix4.
Horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive (cursiva anglicana libraria media), written below the top line.
Binding: Pre-1600. Contemporary binding of bevelled oak boards, laced on to three split cords, covered with kermes-dyed pink leather (damaged) and with remains of a single strap and pin clasping mechanism.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern England. Many of the Vitae have a North-Eastern English emphasis.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Library at Sotheby's, 5 December 1989, lot 90.
- Publications:
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J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. III (London, 1910), pp. 370-414, 534.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1986-1990 (London: British Library, 1993), pp. 562-63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)