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Add MS 19725
- Record Id:
- 032-002090002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002090002
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x000075
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055985644.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19725
- Title:
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A collection of anonymous sermons; Martyrology and Kalendar; Pseudo-Bede, computistical extracts; Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum; Gennadius of Marseille, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Capitula Parisiensia; Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum Miracula
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of pastoral texts compiled in the late 9th century.
Contents:
ff. 2r-4v: Unidentified sermons, beginning 'Cum igitur fere in omnibus paginis'.
ff. 5r-30r: Martyrology (imperfect) and Kalendar, extracted from Usuard (d. 877), beginning 'celebraret in media civitate iussit in eadem'.
ff. 30r-32r: Pseudo-Bede, Extracts from a computistical text.
ff. 32r-50r: Anonymous, Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum (Rules and Instructions of Bishops).
ff. 50v-63v: Gennadius of Marseille (fl. late 5th century), De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus (On Church Doctrines); a rubric on f. 63v has been erased.
ff. 63v-87r: Capitula Parisiensia, beginning 'Incipit expositio de XV capitula'.
ff. 88r-128v: Anonymous, Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum Miracula (A Book on the Miracles and Deeds of the Holy Fathers) in 25 chapters. A chapter list is given on ff. 88v-89r.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 1r-1v: A parchment fly-leaf from a tenth-century collection of extracts from papal letters and decretals. A paper pastedown on f.1v lists the contents and old pagination.
ff. 129r-129v: A parchment fly-leaf from a tenth-century collection of extracts from papal letters and decretals. This most likely belonged to the same manuscript as the fly-leaf at the beginning of the manuscript.
ff. 87v-88r: A 'Sunday Letter', supposedly written by Christ to encourage the Sabbath to be kept on Sundays. Interpolated in an eleventh century hand, beginning on f. 87v and continuing into the margins of f. 88r. The margins have subsequently been trimmed, removing part of the text.
ff. 5r, 8v, 37r, 40r, 41r and 42v: annotations in a hand datable to c. 1000 (see Kerff, ‘Frühmittelalterliche pharmazeutische Rezepte aus dem Kloster Tegernsee’, (1983)).
[ff. 1r, 1v are blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial, decorated with insular knot-work and red infill (f. 89r). Medium and small capitals, highlighted in red, and rubric capitals, found throughout the manuscript. Initials on ff. 101v, 105r, 113r have been decorated with human faces. On f. 31r a computus table is decorated with column bases. A pen trial, perhaps for a decorated initial, on f. 128v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002090002
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002090002
- 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_100055985644.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 155 mm (text space: 140 x 110mm).
Foliation: ff. 129 ( + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning); 4 parchment stubs between f. 4 and f. 5; 1 paper pastedown with bibliographic notes pasted on f. [i] recto; 1 paper pastedown with contents list written in a later hand on f. 1v. Original pagination ‘1-254’ in upper right corner (ff. 2-128v).
Script: Caroline Minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600. Fifteenth-century white leather over wooden boards with five metal bosses on the upper and lower cover and a metal clasp. A title is written on a piece of parchment pasted onto the upper part of the front cover. Another piece of parchment is pasted onto the spine, though the text is not clearly legible. The spine was inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'MARTYROLOGIUM CANONES ECCLESIASTICI DE MIRACULIS SANCTORUM ECT', 'MUS. BRIT. JURE. EMPI – 19,725', 'PLUT. CIXXI.G.'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Eastern France.
Provenance:
? A scriptorium in Eastern France: according to Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 98 (nos 2379, 2380).
The Benedictine Abbey of Tegernsee, founded in the 8th century: the contents list pasted onto f. 1v was written by Ambrosius Schwerzenbeck (d. 1508), librarian at Tegernsee monastery; the manuscript may have come to Tegernsee as early as c. 1000, as indicated by annotations on ff. 5r, 8v, 37r, 40r, 41r and 42v. A reference to the date of the Deposition of St Maximin of Trier on f. 14r suggests that the manuscript may have come to Tegernsee via Abbot Hartwig (d. 982), who had previously been a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of St Maximin in Trier. The manuscript may have been rebound in its current fifteenth-century German binding under the direction of librarian, Ambrosius Schwerzenbeck (see Kerff, ‘Frühmittelalterliche pharmazeutische Rezepte aus dem Kloster Tegernsee’ (1983)).
Edwin Tross (fl. 1860s), bookdealer in Paris: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 January 1854 (see note on f. [i] recto: ‘Purchased of E. Tross, Paris, 14 Jan. 1854.’) for £200.
- 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 1854-1860 (London: Woodfall, 1867), p. 2.
Henri Quentin, Les Martyrologes Historiques du Moyen Âge. Étude sur la formation du Martyrologe Romain (Paris: J. Gabalda & Co, 1908), pp. 26-27.
Charles Williams Jones, Bedae Pseudepigrapha:scientific writings falsely attributed to Bede (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1939), p. 2.
Peter Brommen, ‘Benedictus Levita und die “Capitula Episcoporum”’, Mainzer Zeitschrift, 70 (1975), 145-47 (p. 146).
W.R. Jones, ‘The Heavenly Letter in Medieval England’, Medievalia et Humanistica, 6 (1975), 163-78 (p. 173).
Franz Kerff, ‘Frühmittelalterliche pharmazeutische Rezepte aus dem Kloster Tegernsee’, Sudhoffs Archiv, 67:1 (1983), 111-16.
Reinhold Haggenmüller, Die Überlieferung der Beda und Egbert zugeschriebenen Bußbücher (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1991), p. 70.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 98 (nos 2379 and 2380).
Dorothy Haines, Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010), pp. 204-05.
Charles West, Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation Between Marne and Moselle, c. 800-c. 1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 37.
Rob Meens, Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 232.
Amnon Linder, ‘De Plaga que facta est in Hierusalem eo quod Dominicum diem non Custodiebant: History into Fable?’ in In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed. by Iris Shagir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 3-30 (p. 26).
- 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.