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Add MS 40074
- Record Id:
- 032-002091783
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091783
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0002ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058080348.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40074
- Title:
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Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis, Epistulae, Dialogi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r–24r: Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis (CPL 475). The copy includes additonal texts characteristic of the ‘Martinellus’ family: cf. Fontaine, Sulpice Sévère (1967), i. 219–21. Some contemporary interlinear glosses.
ff. 24r–34r: Sulpicius Severus, Epistulae (CPL 476)
ff. 34v–89v: Sulpicius Severus, Dialogi (CPL 477)
ff. 89v–93r Pseudo-Sulpicius, Tituli metrici de S. Martino (CPL 478; SK 17053)
f. 93r–v: Note on the basilica at Tours, ‘Basilica sancti martini abest e ciuitate passus quingentos gere et quinquaginta. habet in longo pedes. clx. et in lato pedes lx. … lege ut credas. crede ut uiuas in æternum;’
ff. 93v–94v: Symbolum ‘Clemens trinitas’, i.e. the ‘Confessio S. Martini’ (CPL 1748a), ‘Incipit liber sancti martini de sancta trinitate. Clemens trinitas est una diuinitas. … filius in patre in sancto spiritu in sancta ecclesia nunc et in inmortalia saecula sæculorum. Amen.’
Decoration:
New sections open with a two-line capital, alternating between green and red, occasionally using violet in place of red (ff. 72r–v, 74r). A red initial with blue penwork on f. 58r. Rubrics in rustic capitals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091783
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002091783
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058080348.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0960
- End Date:
- 1040
- Date Range:
- Late 10th century-Early 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 205 × 115 mm (written area 160 × 80 mm)
Foliation: ff. 94. Two 19th-century and two 18th-century paper flyleaves at the beginning (the latter foliated i–ii); at the end, one 18th-century and two 19th-century, unfoliated.
Collation: i8–1 (ff. 1–7; 1st cancelled), ii–vi8 (ff. 8–47), vii10 (ff. 48–57), viii8 (ff. 58–65), ix6 (ff. 66–71), x–xi8 (ff. 72–87), xii8–1 (ff. 88–94; 8th cancelled). Some quires include a signature in the text hand: f. 47v, ‘.f.’, 65v, ‘.h.’, 71v, ‘.i.’
Script: English Caroline minuscule, several hands.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: the script may resemble that of manuscripts associated with St Augustine's (see Dumville, English Caroline (1993), p. 98 n. 79).
Provenance:
Christopher Towneley (b. 1604, d. 1674), antiquary: his bookplace on f. i verso.
Sir Thomas Brooke (b. 1830, d. 1908), Baronet, of Armitage Bridge: his bookplate on f. ii recto.
Sir John Arthur Brooke (b. 1844, d. 1920), 1st Baronet of Almondbury: purchased from his estate at Sotheby’s, Brooke sale, 25 May–3 June 1921, lot 1315.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Sulpice Sévère. Vie de saint Martin, ed. by Jacques Fontaine, Sources chrétiennes, 133–135 (Paris: Cerf, 1967–1969).
D.N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950–1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1993), p. 98 n. 79.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 296.
The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours, ed. by Andre Mertens (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017), pp. 65, 66, 145.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)