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Add MS 21164
- Record Id:
- 032-002091538
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091538
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x00028d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055986585.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21164
- Title:
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Lexicon Tironianum
- Scope & Content:
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This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The lexicon is preceded by a description on the shorthand by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) in his Etymologiae (Etymologies).
Contents:
ff. 2r-2v: A prologue entitled ‘De Notis Vulgaribus’: excerpt from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, book 1 (1.22-25), beginning ‘Vulgares notas Ennius primus mile et centum invenit’.
ff. 3r-77v: Lexicon Tironiarum (Lexicon of Tironian Notes).
Decoration:
One large initial with penwork decoration in brown ink (f. 3r). Medium initials in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091538
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002091538
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055986585.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 160 mm (text space: approximately 165 x 120, in 1 column [ff. 2r-2v]; 160 x 110 mm, in 3 or 4 columns [ff. 3r-20r]; 160 x 120 mm, in 3 columns [ff. 20v-77v]).
Foliation: ff. 77 ( + 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1 is a modern paper flyleaf.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled dark green Morocco leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘LEXICON TIRONIANUM’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France (f. 2); Western France (ff. 3-77).
Provenance:
Pierre Pithou (b. 1539, d. 1596), French lawyer and scholar, or his namesake son (Pierre Pithou II) or newphew (Pierre Pithou III): his name insribed on f. 3 (‘P Pithou’), in a 16th- or 17th-century script; his notations on ff. 2r (‘Isidorus’), 3r and 77v.
Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile (b. 1789, d. 1870), Duchess of Berry, in 1837: her bookplate (‘Bibliotheque de Rosny’) pasted on f. [iv] recto with ‘No. 2431’ written on it; her sale: see f. 1r: ‘De Rosny sale, in 1837. Lot 2431’ and Catalogue de la riche Bibliothèque de Rosny (Paris: Huzard, 1837), p. 218.
Edwin Tross (fl. 1850s-1860s), book dealer in Paris, owned in 1855: perhaps his 19th-century description of the manuscript in French on f. 1v: his sale catalogue, vol. 19, no. 1945 (‘Dictionarium Tironianum’); purchased from him by the British Museum on 13 October 1955 (see note on f. 1r: ‘Purchased of M. Edwin Tross of Paris, 13 Oct. 1855’) for £ 56.0.0.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue de la riche Bibliothèque de Rosny (Paris: Huzard, 1837), p. 218 (no. 2431).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), p. 332.
Wilhelm Schmitz, Commentarii Notarum Tironianarum (Leipzig: Teubner, 1893), p. 8 (Lo).
Paul Chatelain, Introduction à la lecture des notes tironiennes (Paris: Chatelain, 1900), pp. 231-32, pl. 17.
Un manuel tironien du Xe siècle, publié d'après le manuscrit 1597 A de la Bibliothèque nationale, ed. by Paul Legendre (Paris: Champion, 1905) passim [for an edition from another manuscript].
Paul Legendre, Études tironiennes: Commentaire sur la VIe églogue de Virgile tiré d'un manuscrit de Chartres, Bibliothèque de l'École practique des hautes études: Science philologiques et historiques, 167 (Paris: Champion, 1907), p. 52 (no. 10).
Martin Hellmann, Tironische Noten in der Karolingerzeit am Beispiel eines Persius-Kommentars aus der Schule von Tours (Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2000), p. 236.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 99 (nos 2382, 2383).
'London, British Library, Add. 21164 (fol. 2)', at 'Innovating Knowledge', ed. by Evina Steinová ((Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, 2021), online at https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/#detail/M0171 [accessed 28.01.2022].
- 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.