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Add MS 15418
- Record Id:
- 032-002087177
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087177
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000282
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165143204.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15418
- Title:
- Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Liber divinorum operum (Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. Hildegard originally composed the work between 1163 and 1173. It is arranged in three parts and provides details of ten mystical visions she experienced. For a further discussion of the manuscript and this copy of the text, see Embach, Die Schriften Hildegards von Bingen (2003), pp. 168-69.
Other surviving manuscripts of the Liber divinorum operum include Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 241; Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, MS 1942; and Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, MS 683.
Contents:
f. 1r: An added ownership inscription relating to John Jackson, citizen of London, dated 1781.
ff. 2r-98r: Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum, arranged in three parts, beginning with a prologue (f. 7r), and with capitula preceding each of the three main sections; the prologue beginning, 'Et factum est in sexto anno...'
The text is imperfect, lacking at least 6 folios between ff. 31 and 32; ff. 72, 75, and 76 have been removed and replaced, with the missing text added in a later hand imitative of the rest of the manuscript.
ff. 1v and 98v are ruled but unwritten.
Decoration:
11 large decorated initials in colours and gold, with foliate borders, marking major textual divisions (ff. 7r, 9v, 23r, 28v, 52v, 54r, 71r, 73r, 80v, 81v, 86r).
Decorated initials in gold on blue and red grounds, with foliate extensions into the margins. Small initials in gold with pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Blue paraph marks.
Catchwords in scrolls, some with foliate decoration (ff. 14v, 22v, 30v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v). Some line-fillers in pen-and-ink, with foliate decoration (e.g. f. 6v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087177
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087177
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165143204.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410 x 300 mm (written space: 305 x 195 mm), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 98 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 72 + 2 unfoliated parchment stubs after f. 74 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Catchwords. Quire signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Half-leather binding; marbled covers and endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Jackson of London, 1781: inscribed, 'Liber Johannis Jackson / Civis Londinensis / A.D. / 1781 ' (f. 1r).
Augustus Frederick (b.1801, d.1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial bookplate, inscribed, 'VI.E.a.5' (inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller: inscribed, 'Purchased of Tho. Rodd / 18 Jan. 1845 / Super Sale lot 247' (f. 1r).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), no. 15418.
Hildegardis Bingensis Liber divinorum operum, ed. by Albert Derolez and Peter Dronke, CCCCM 102 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996), pp. cix-cx.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, 'Hildegard and the Male Reader: a study in Insular Reception', in Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-medieval England, ed. by Rosalynn Voaden (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 1-18 (p. 2).
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, 'Prophecy and Suspicion: Closet Radicalism, Reformist Politics, and the Vogue for Hildegardiana in Ricardian England', Speculum, 75.2 (2000), 318-41 (p. 323 n. 21).
Michael Embach, Die Schriften Hildegards von Bingen: Studien zu ihrer Überlieferung im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003), pp. 159-60, 168-69, 229 n. 1, 401.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)