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Add MS 14784
- Record Id:
- 032-002086450
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086450
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000150
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055970157.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14784
- Title:
- St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A table of contents.
f. 2r: Excerpt from St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2, chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum Valerium comitem'.
ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum (Epistle to Volusianus), beginning: 'Epistula Sancti Augustini ad comitem Valerium. Domino illustri et merito prestantissimo filio Volusiano'.
ff. 3r-45r: St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia (On Marriage and Concupiscence), beginning: 'Incipit liber Aurelii Augustini Ypponensis episcopi ad Valerium comitem de nuptiis et concupiscentia. Heretici novi dilectissime fili Valeri'; Book 1 (ff. 3r-19v); Book 2 (ff. 19v-45r).
ff. 45r-63v: St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis (On Man's Perfection in Righteousness), beginning: 'Incipit liber Aurelii Augustini Ypponiensis episcopi ad Paulum et Eutropium episcopos de perfectione iustitie hominis. Sanctis fratribus et coepiscopis Eutropio et Paulo Augustinus'.
ff. 64r-94r: St Augustine, De catechizandis rudibus (On Instructing the Unlearned), preceded by an excerpt from the Retractationes (Book II, chapter 14) that is related to this work (ff. 64r-64v), beginning: 'Est liber unus de catechizandis rudibus hoc ipso titulo prenotatus'. De catechizandis rudibus begins on f. 65r: 'Petisti a me frater Deogratias, ut aliquid ad te de cathecizandis rudibus'.
Decoration:
A full-page length initial 'P'(etisti) with interlace, floriated and zoomorphic decoration in red and blue (f. 65r). A large decorated initial 'I'(nter), with interlace, penwork decoration, and zoomorphic motifs, in red and green (f. 19v). A large initials with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures and penwork decoration in red, blue and green (ff. 3r, 45v). Decorated initials with penwork decoration, including zoomorphic and human figures, in red, green and blue, some with pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 24v). Initials with penwork decoration and/or pen-flourishing in red and green, throughout. Initials in red or green. A framed incipit with geometric motifs in green, red and yellow (f. 1r). A large decorated frame with the title of the work, added in the modern period (f. 64r). Instructions for the rubricator. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures in Roman numerals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086450
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086450
- 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_100055970157.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 195 mm (230 x 150 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 95 (+2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 95r is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Collation: Quires of 8 leaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold-tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Liessies, Northern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Lambert, Liessies, founded in 751: a 12th-century ownership inscription 'Liber Sancti Lamberti' (f. 1v), 'Ecclesie Letiensis' (f. 2r); a 15th-century ownership inscription with a book curse (anathema) dated to 1449: 'Iste liber pertinet ecclesie Sancti Lamberti Lessiencis si quis abstulerit anathema sit. Anno domini 1449 in festo Sancti Iohannis Baptiste', followed by another anathema written by the same hand (f. 95r).
John Payne and Henry Foss (fl. 1825-1850), London booksellers: purchased by the British Museum from them on 16 November 1843: inscribed (f. [ii] recto).
- 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 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 5.
A. Souter, 'Notes on the De Catechizandis Rudibus', in Miscellanea Agostiniana: Testi e studi publicati a cura dell'Ordine Eremitano di S. Agostino nel XV centenario dalla morte del santo dottore, 2 vols (Rome: Studi Agostiniani, 1930-1931), II, pp. 253-55.
J. P. Christopher, St Augustine: The First Catechetical Instruction [De Catechizandis Rudibus] (New York: Newman Press, 1946), p.10.
[St Augustine], De fide rerum invisibilium; Enchiridion ad Laurentium de fide et spe et caritate; De catechizandis rudibus; Sermo ad catechumenos de symbolo. Sermo de disciplina christiana; De utilitate ieiunii; Sermo de excidio urbis Romae; De haeresibus, ed. by M. P. J. van den Hout and others, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, 46 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1969), pp. xvi, 120.
Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, 11 vols (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2010), II.1 (1972): Grossbritannien und Irland: Werkverzeichnis, ed. by Franz Römer, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Corpus der Lateinischen Kirchenväter, 3, Österreichische akademie der wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historische klasse, 281, p. 148.
- 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.