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Add MS 36668
- Record Id:
- 032-002055146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x000084
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064358245.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36668
- Title:
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St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is entirely dedicated to the Commentary on Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). An inscription added at the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin in Trier shows that it was in that monastery shortly after its production. Added corrections, punctuation, marginal notation, practice alphabets, and marginal outline drawings (such as the lion in the bottom margin on f. 109r) suggest that it was well used by both novices and more fully educated monks. It was apparently still considered an important text by the 14th century, when five folios were added to supplement the lost ending of the text. The text has been printed in Patrologia Latina 25, ed. Jacques-Paul Migne, pp. 491-583.
Contents:
ff.1v-117r: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, beginning: ‘Contra profetam Danielem’.
[f. 1r is blank.]
Decoration:
5 medium penwork initials with simple interlace decoration, some also with zoomorphic decoration, marking the start of divisions of the text (f. 4r, f. 59v, f. 79r, f. 109v). Small penwork outline initials at the start of other divisions of text (for example f. 15v). 1 simple initial in red (f. 115r). Small initials and capital letters marked in red throughout ff. 113r-117v. Explicit and ownership inscription in red on f. 117v. Greek words and quotations are marked by a line above the word or phrase.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055146
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002055146
- 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_100064358245.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm (written area: 155 x 105 mm).
Collation: i-ii6 (ff. 1-12), iii-xiv8 (ff. 13-106), xv8-3 (ff. 107-112, 6th, 7th and 8th leaves lacking after f. 112); last five folios are a later addition to supplement the lacking leaves, consisting of a regular quire of four + a singleton. Quire signatures are regularly used throughout ff. 1-112.
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 3 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); previous sequence of foliation that counted f. 44 twice crossed out and the correct number added throughout; f. [118]recto, note of examination; the margins of ff. 58, 64, 88, 99, and 100 contain significant parchment repairs.
Script: Caroline minuscule (ff. 1-112v); Gothic (ff. 113r-117v).
Binding: Post-1600. Red Morocco leather with blind-tooled foliate decoration; bound by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (b. 1816, d. 1886), his name gold-stamped on the inside of the upper cover; the spine was inscribed in gold at the British Museum, 'HIERONYMI TRACTATUS IN DANIHELEM, MS. SEC. IX.'; red fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Southern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Maximin in Trier, founded in the sixth century: a 10th-century ownership inscription on f. 3r, ‘ CODEX SANCTI MAXIMINI’; a 14th-century added text (ff. 113r-117v) and ownership inscription from the same abbey on f. 117v, ‘Codex monasterii sancti Maximini archiepiscopi Treverorum’.
Henry White (d. 1900), merchant, magistrate, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries: sale of his library at Sotheby’s, 21 April – 2 May 1902, lot 1055 (see note on f. [i]recto); purchased by the British Museum for £76 (according to the auctioneer’s sale catalogue), together with nine other manuscripts.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), p.180.
Gerald I. Bonner, 'The Latin Patristic Manuscripts of the British Museum', Studia Patristica I, ed. by Kurt Aland and F. L. Cross, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 63 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1957), pp. 15-22, (p. 21).
Christopher de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon, 2001), p. 105.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 102 (no. 2402).
Régis Courtray, ‘Nouvelles recherches sur la transmission du De Antichristo de Jérôme’, Sacris Erudiri, 43 (2004), pp. 33-53, (p. 42).
- 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.