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Add MS 16414
- Record Id:
- 032-002094178
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094178
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000043
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055974312.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16414
- Title:
- Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum; John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum; John Cassian, Collationes; John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-v: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum (Epistle to Cassian).
ff. 2r-47r: John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum (Institues of the Monasteries), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-v).
ff. 48r-193v: John Cassian, Collationes (Collations), preceded by a list of the collations (f. 48r) and a short text on Cassian's life (ff. 48r-v), beginning: 'Incipit de ortu et gestis ac fine beatissimi Patris Cassiani. Cassianus natione scita, Constantinopoli ab Iohanne magno episcopo diachonus ordinatus'; the Prologue of the Collationes (ff. 48v-49r), beginning: 'Debitum quod beatissimo pape Castori in eorum voluminum prefatione promissum est'; followed by capitula for Book 1 (ff. 49r-v); the first Collation begins (f. 49v): 'Cum in eremo Scitii', each collation is preceded by capitula.
ff. 193v-226r: John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium (On the Incarnation of God, against Nestorius).
Decoration:
One large decorated initial 'D' for 'Domino', with interlace and floriated motifs, partially filled with red and yellow, the rest remain uncoloured (f. 1r).
One large line-filler with interlace in red and blue (f. 1r).
Numerous decorated initials with interlaces and foliated motifs, coloured with red, green, blue and yellow (e. g., ff. 2r, 13v, 18v).
Two initials in red, one with penwork decoration (ff. 193v, 194r).
Numerous small initials in red.
Small initials highlighted in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094178
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094178
- 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_100055974312.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 210 mm (text space 270 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 226 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end), 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf between f. 47 and f. 48.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Southern Netherlands.
Produced in Northern France or Southern Netherlands, according to M. Gullick's unpublished notes.
Provenance:
Added, 12th-century marginal notes (e. g., ff. 2r-4r).
A 14th-century partially erased ownership inscription (f. 1r).
Added, 14th-century marginal notes and manicules (e. g., ff. 131v, 132v).
L. M. Rezzi (fl. 1st half of the 19th century) former Jesuit, book collector and librarian of the Barberini and Corsini Libraries in Rome: inscription (f. [iii] recto).
Purchased by the British Museum from Messrs Payne and Foss, 7 January 1847 (f. [iii] recto).
- 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 1846-1847 (London: British Museun, 1864), p. 204.
Iohannis Cassiani opera: De institutis coenobiorum, ed. by M. Petschenig (Vienna: C. Gerold, 1888), p. lxxii.
Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci, Storia della Letteratura Latina Cristiana (Turin: Società Editrice Internazionale,1955), p. 276.
Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second series XI Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian (New York: Cosimo, 2007), p. 195.
- 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.