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Add MS 14813
- Record Id:
- 032-002086480
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086480
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00016b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165142303.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14813
- Title:
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Four Gospels, with list of lections (‘The Erfurt Gospels’)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: An added 13th-century ownership inscription, now partially obscured or smudged.
ff. 1v-2r: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus I).
ff. 2r- 117r: The Four Gospels, with readings for major feasts marked throughout.
f. 117v: List of Gospel lections, incomplete.
Decoration:
1 full-page miniature in colours and gold, with a full border (f. 4v): Christ in Majesty surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists in the upper register, and Sts Peter and Paul holding closed books, with two tonsured monks in supplication beneath their feet in lower register.
4 large miniatures of the Evangelists in colours and gold, with a full border: (f. 6r: St Matthew; f. 38v: St Mark; f. 56v: St Luke; f. 91v: St John).
2 large historiated initials in colours and gold: Initial ‘I’(ntravit) composed of the Virgin Mary as orante (f. 72r); initial 'I'(ngressus) composed of the figure of Ecclesia, crowned and holding a sceptre and a shield (f. 81v).
24 large initials in gold and/or silver and colours, mainly on blue grounds with clasps and foliate forms, at the beginning of prologues and readings for particular feasts (ff. 1v, 5v, 6v, 7r, 9r, 22r, 23v, 32v, 36r, 37r (two initials), 37v, 56r, 57v, 58r, 58v, 59r, 59v, 88v, 90r, 93r, 93v, 107v, 109v).
Numerous smaller (2-3 lines) initials in blue with red pen-work decoration, in red with blue pen-work decoration, or red with reserved designs or pen-work decoration in red.
Silk curtains in different colours, stitched only on one side, have been added in front of the full-page miniature, most of the miniatures of the evangelists, the historiated initials and numerous large (e.g. f. 6r) and small initials (e.g. f. 7r).
Small initials in red, some with pen-work decoration.
Capitals in brown. Rubrics and highlighting of words in red. Decorated quire signatures in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086480
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086480
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165142303.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 190 mm (written area 235 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 117 ( + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Decorated quire signatures in roman numerals (e.g., ff. 12v, 20v, 28v, 36v).
Coloured silk curtains are sewn into the manuscript, covering most miniatures and many illuminated initials.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Blind-stamped 15th- or 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards; remains of metalwork clasps; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Erfurt, Germany.
Provenance:
The Benedictine monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul, Erfurt: ownership inscriptions, 'Liber sancti Petri in Erefocdia' (f. 1r); "Liber sci Petri in erpeffurt' (f. 5r), in a 13th-century hand.
Inscribed: 'Testamentum Novum Evangelia 12th Century', in a 19th-century hand (f. 1r).
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss, booksellers, on 16 November 1843, as lot 170, for £31, 10 shillings: inscription (though giving the wrong year), ‘Purchased of Payne and Foss, 1844’ (f. [iv 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. 9 [under ‘List of additions in 1844’].
Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 7.
Bernhard Wirtgen, Die Handschriften des Klosters St. Peter und Paul zu Erfurt bis zum Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts (published doctoral thesis, Berlin, 1936), pp. 47-49, 108, 127, pls. 15, 16a, 16b, 17a.
Beate Braun-Niehr, Der Codex Vaticanus Rossianus 181. Studien zur Erfurter Buchmalerei um 1200 (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1996), pp. 18 n. 20. 29-30, 32-33, 40, 49-52, 54-56, 64-65, 145, 163-66, 170-72, figs. 10, 13-15, 74, 76.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 78, fig. 65.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)