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Add MS 37777
- Record Id:
- 032-002054211
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002054211
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0003b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37777
- Title:
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Bible fragment from the Book of Kings (the 'Greenwell leaf' of the 'Ceolfrith or Ceolfrid Bible')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A folio from a Bible in the Vulgate version, containing part of the third book of Kings, 11:29-12:18. The running title 'Malachim' is in capitals in the upper margin of the recto. Incipit: 'Et invenirat eum athias silonites' (recto); explicit: 'Misit igiture rex roboam' (verso).
Decoration:
First line of each chapter in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002054211", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 37777: Bible fragment from the Book of Kings (the 'Greenwell leaf' of the 'Ceolfrith or Ceolfrid Bible')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002054211
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002054211
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 parchment folio
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37777 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0715
- Date Range:
- 0700-0715
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 450mm x 320mm (text space 360/70 x 240/55mm).
Foliation: 1 folio mounted in modern cardboard frames with 1 cardboard leaf at the beginning and 1 at the end.
Script: Uncial.
Layout: Written in two columns of 44 lines. Per cola et commata.
Binding: Post-1600. BL/BM in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A folio from one of three large Bibles (another being the Codex Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS. Amiatino I) probably copied in the Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow or Wearmouth, on the orders of Abbot Ceolfrith (r. 690-716) (see Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, ed. by Ivor Atkins and Neil R. Ker (1944), p. 77).
Provenance:
Perhaps from the 'Great Bible' recorded at Worcester Cathedral, to which Bishop Wulfstan II ordered copies of the cathedral's important documents to be added during the late 11th century (see Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, ed. by Ivor Atkins and Neil R. Ker (1944), pp. 77-79). Added notes in red ink, probably from a monastery in the Midlands (first half of the 14th century). The same markings are found in Add MS 45025.
An erased title, partly visible under ultraviolet, reads 'Dr....privileges' (see research by Christopher de Hamel noted in The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers, ed. by Ralph Hannah and Thorlac Turville-Petre (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010) , p. 122.
Reverend William Greenwell, Librarian of Durham Cathedral, FRS (b. 1820, d. 1918): purchased by him in 1882 from Robinson's of Newcastle, found 'in the binding of an old register, dated 1780'; presented by him to the British Museum in 1909.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 37777, FOLIO ONE
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., First Series, 2 vols, ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others (London: New Paleographical Society, 1903-1912), I, pls 158-59 [bound as nos 60-61].
C.H. Turner, 'Iter Dunelmense', Journal of Theological Studies, 10 (1909), 540-44.
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the years 1906-1910 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912), 136-37.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 177.
H.I. Bell, 'Leaves of an early Bible MS', British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1938), 39-40.
E.A. Lowe, English Uncial (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), pp. 8, 19, no. X.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N.R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 104-05, 207.
Gerald Bonner, Wearmouth, Bede, and Christian Culture: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at The Central Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland (Sunderland: [n. pub.], 1974), no. 1.
J.J.G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 1 (London: Harvey Miller, 1978), p. 33.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 383.
Joyce Irene Whalley and Vera C. Kaden, The Universal Penman: A Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980), no. 6.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 19, 21, 23-24, 67-69, 247, 249.
Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Phaidon Press, 1986), pp. 18-19, pls. 10-12.
Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 153 no. 20.
Bernhard Bischoff, Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. and ed. by Michael Gorman, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 14, n. 88a.
Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West, The Medieval Book, 1 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), no. 3.
Richard Marsden, 'The Old Testament in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Preliminary observations on the Textual Evidence', in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 101-24 (pp. 103, 123).
Patrick McGurk, 'The Oldest Manuscripts of the Latin Bible', in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 1-23 (pp. 2, 3 n. 12).
Richard Marsden, 'Ask What I am Called': The Anglo-Saxons and Their Bibles', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 145-76 (p. 171).
Richard Gameson, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), pp. 35-37.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), under no. 293.
Richard Gameson, ‘Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 28-44 (pp. 28 n. 2, 38).
Joanna Story, ‘Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 66-85 (p. 72).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)