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Add MS 19961
- Record Id:
- 032-002090211
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002090211
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0000e6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061384378.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19961
- Title:
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Cassiodorus-Epiphanius, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript originates from the second half of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Zangemeister, ‘Bericht’ (1876), p. 44). It may have been produced in the Southern Netherlands (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Ganz, ‘Review’) or France (Jacob, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung (1954), p. 15). It contains the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita (Tripartite Ecclesiastical History). This is a collection of three Church histories by the historians Socrates Scholasticus (b. c. 380; d. c. 440), Sozomen (b. c. 400, d. c. 450), and Theodoret (b. 393, d. 458), that were compiled by Cassiodorus (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), and, under his direction, translated from Greek into Latin by Epiphanius Scholasticus (fl. early 6th century).
Contents:
f. 1r: A fragment of a theological text citing from the homilies of Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604).
ff. 1v-215v: Cassiodorus-Epiphanius, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita, Books I-XII, imperfect due to loss of folios throughout the manuscript and at the end.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 216r: A description of the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita, added in a ?13th- or 14th-century script.
[f. 216v is blank].
Decoration:
Large and small plain initials in red. Display capitals in red (some oxidized). Roman numerals in red and green.
An added marginal drawing in drypoint of a circle within a circle (f. 34r); the outline of a parrot in brown ink on f. 189v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002090211
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002090211
- 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_100061384378.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 220 mm (text space: 210 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 215 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 216 is a small parchment strip sewn into the lower left corner of f. 215v.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Gold-tooled and –stamped (grapevines) brown leather binding, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: ‘CASSIODORI HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands or France.
Provenance:
An unknown 13th- or 14th-century owner: added f. 216 with a description of the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita.
An unknown 19th-century French owner: added notes in French on f. 2r (‘9me manuscrit’ and ‘9me siecle’).
An unknown Continental owner, in 1854: a ‘foreign literary character’, his sale, London, Sotheby’s, 28 August 1854, lot 224 (see f. [ii] recto: ‘Purchased at Sotheby’s – 28th August 1854 Lot 224’). Purchased by the British Museum for £ 21.0.0.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), p. 22.
Karl Zangemeister, ‘Bericht über die im Auftrage der Kirchenväter-Commission unternommene Durchforschung der Bibliotheken Englands’, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 84 (1876), 485-584 (pp. 526-27).
Max L. W. Laistner, ‘The Value and Influence of Cassiodorus' Ecclesiastical History’, Harvard Theological Review, 41:1 (1948), 51-67 (p. 65).
Walter Jacob, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der sogenannten Historia tripartita des Epiphanius-Cassiodor, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 59 (Berlin: Akademie Velag, 1954), p. 21.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2004), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, pp. 98-99 (no. 2381).
David Ganz, ‘Review of History and Memory in the Carolingian World, (review no. 474)’, Reviews in History (2005), online at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/474 [accessed 21 February 2018].
Désirée Scholten, The History of a Historia: Manuscript transmission of the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita by Epiphanius-Cassiodorus (Unpublished MA thesis, Utrecht University, 2010), p. 67.
- 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.