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Add MS 40107
- Record Id:
- 032-002091820
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091820
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0002fe
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- Add MS 40107
- Title:
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Leaf from the Codex Palatinus
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Leaf from the Codex Palatinus (codex 'e') of the Old Latin (pre-Vulgate) version of the Gospels, containing Matthew 14:11-22, written in silver on purple dyed parchment. For an edition of this leaf, see Souter 1922.
The majority of the manuscript (228 folios) is in Trent, Museo Nazionale (Castello del Buonconsiglio), s.n. (formerly Vienna, Biblioteca Palatina Cod. 1185). Another leaf from this same manuscript (containing Matthew 13:13-23) is now Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 1709. Included with the leaf is a letter regarding its provenance (ff. i recto-2 verso) dated 20 January 1771, from Frederick Augustus Hervey (b. 1730, d. 1803), fourth Earl of Bristol (from 1779) and Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry, to John Garnett (b. 1707/8, d. 1782), Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher, as well as two copies (ff. iv recto and v recto) of brief passages from comparable purple parchment manuscripts, the Codex Brixianus and Codex Veronensis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002091820
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002091820
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 parchment folio
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40107 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0499
- Date Range:
- 5th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 355 x 260 mm (text space: 220 x 175 mm).
Foilation: f. vi + 1.
Script: Uncial.
Binding: Unbound.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Probably North Africa or Italy.
Provenance:
Cristoforo Sizzo de Noris (b. 1706, d. 1776), Bishop of Trento, 1771: gave the leaf to Frederick Hervey (see below).
Frederick Augustus Hervey (b. 1730, d. 1803), fourth Earl of Bristol (from 1779), Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry, 1771: received the leaf from Cristoforo Sizzo de Noris, on a visit to the latter's castle in Trento (Castello del Buonconsiglio): a letter dated 20 January 1771, from Hervey to John Garnett: 'my friend the bishop of Trent [Cristoforo Sizzo de Noris] with whom I have pass'd a fortnight [...]: it was from among his archives that I was indulged with the Inclosed leaf, which [...] form'd part of a Manuscript of the four Gospels discovr'd about nine years ago by a Soccolantifriar [observant friar] among the old rubbish of the Castle' (f. i recto).
John Garnett (b. 1707/8, d. 1782), Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher, 1771: received the leaf from Frederick Hervey (see above).
? John Grimston (b. 1724, d. 1780), of Grimston Garth and Kilnwick: perhaps to be identfied with the 'J. G.' who received the leaf from Garnett in 1776: note regarding provenance (f. iii recto): 'given by the Bishop of Darry to the Bishop of Clogher and by him to JG. 1776'; the manuscript was later found at Kilnwick Hall, Yorkshire.
Edward Luttrell Grimston Byrom (b. 1885, d. 1944), of Kilnwick Hall: sold the manuscript to the British Museum on 8 October 1921.
- Administrative Context:
- Probably North Africa or Italy.
- Publications:
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Evangelium Palatinum Ineditum, ed. by C. Tischendorf, (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1847), [edition of the Trent manuscript, without the missing leaves].
A. Souter, 'A Lost Leaf of Codex Palatinus (e) of the Old-Latin Gospels Recovered' Journal of Theological Studies, 23 (1922), 284-86 [includes an edition of this leaf; on f. 1r, col. 2, l. 2, read 'pedestrae' for 'pedesirae'].
E. A. Lowe, 'On the African Origin of Codex Palantinus of the Gospels (e)', Journal of Theological Studies, 23 (1922), 401-04 [on the origin of manuscript as a whole].
Heinrich Joseph Vogels, Evangelium Palatinum: Studien zur Ältesten Geschichte der Lateinischen Evangelienübersetzung (Münster: Aschendorffschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1926), p. 4.
Leslie Webber Jones, 'Where are the Prickings?', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 75 (1944), 71-86 (p. 76).
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 32-33.
Patrick McGurk, Latin Gospel Books from A. D. 400 to A. D. 800 (Paris: Érasme, 1961), no. 104.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 2nd edn, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), II: Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 17, 50 [unnumbered].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)