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Add MS 16606
- Record Id:
- 032-002094387
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094387
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x0000c6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059053496.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16606
- Title:
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Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot was written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) or Gerard (1191-1210). The manuscript originally contained Gregory the Great’s Dialogi (Dialogues), a collection of sermons by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shorter texts were added at the end in the early 13th century. The manuscript was owned by Stavelot until the sale of its manuscripts in 1847.
Contents:
ff. 1r-90r, Gregory the Great, Dialogi (Books I-IV), beginning ‘Incipit liber primus Dialogorum Gregorij Pape’.
ff. 90v-94v: Ephraim the Syrian, De Die Iudicii (On the Day of Judgment), ‘De Adventu domini et de die iudicii Omelia beati Effrem diaconi [text:] Venite, dilectissimi fratres, exortationem meam suscipite’.
ff. 94v-98r: Ephraim the Syrian, De Iudicio Dei et Resurrection (On the Judgment of God and the Resurrection), beginning ‘Item omelia beati Effrem diaconi [text:] Gloria omnipotenti deo qui os nostrum superno nutu apparuit’.
ff. 98v-100v: Ephraim the Syrian, De Beatitudine Animae (On the Blessedness of the Soul), ‘Item Omelia beati Effrem diaconi [text:] Beatus qui odio habuit hunc mundum et sollicitudo et meditacio eius’.
ff. 100v-103r: Ephraim the Syrian, De Luctamine Spiritali (On the Spiritual Struggle), ‘Item omelia beati Effrem [text:] In luctaminibus huius seculi nullus sine agone certamine coronabitur’.
ff. 103v-106r: Ephraim the Syrian, De Poenitentia (On Penance), beginning ‘Dominus ihesus Christus qui de caelo descendit de sinu patris et factus est nobis via salutis super penitentia nos instruens’
ff. 106v-112r: Ephraim the Syrian, De Dilectione Dei (On God's Love), beginning ‘Color me compellit dicere et iniquitas commminatur mihi ut filei’.
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 112r: A prophecy about catastrophic events for the year 1229 attributed to John David of Toledo (fl. 12th century) (‘Magister Johannes david toletanus’), added by a 13th century scribe.
f. 112v: Henry V (r. 1099-1125), Holy Roman Emperor, Versus Heinrici Imperator V ad filium suum, added by a 13th-century scribe.
ff. 113r-115r: Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1030, d. 1112), Epistola ad Leodienses, added by a 13th-century scribe.
f. 115v: Responsory for the feast of St Gregory, ‘Fulgebat in venerando’, with music notation, added by a 13th-century scribe.
ff. 116r-116v: A 9th-century leaf from a Missal, written in Central Italy.
Decoration:
8 large initials with foliate decoration and zoomorphic figures in red ink (ff. 1r, 17v, 35v, 90v, 94v, 98v, 103v, 106v). 2 large initials in red ink (f. 63r and f. 100v). Small initials in red ink throughout the manuscript. Line-fillers in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094387
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094387
- 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_100059053496.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm (text space: 230 x 160 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 116 (+ 3 unfoliated paper leaves and 2 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper leaves at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘S. GREGORII DIALOGI. S. EPHRAEM HOMILIAE. ETC.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Stavelot, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, until 1847 (the sale of its manuscripts): a 12th-century inscription on ff. 15v-16r, 23v-24r, 31v-32r, 47v-48r, 55v-56, 63v-64r, 79v-80r, 85v-86r, : ‘Liber Sancti Remacli’; a 12th- or 13th-century note on f. 115v: ‘Iste liber pertinet monasterio sancti Remacly stabulensis’; the manuscript is recorded in a 15th-century catalogue of Stavelot’s manuscripts (see Halkin, ‘Inventaire’ (1897), pp. 442-43 (no. 1100)); a 19th-century note on f. 1r: ‘Liber Monasterij Stabulensis’; its sale at Ghent in 1847 according to a note on f. [v] recto: ‘(Stavelot sale, Lot 16.)’; purchased by Thomas Rodd.
Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: purchased from him by the British Museum (f. [v] recto: ‘Purchased of Thos. Rodd, 13 March 1847’) for £10.
- 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 1846-1847 (London: Woodfall and Kinder, 1864), pp. 290-91.
Joseph Halkin, ‘Inventaire des archives de l'abbaye de Stavelot-Malmedy’, Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire, 5th series, 7 (Brussels: Hayez, 1897), pp. 233-448 (pp. 442-43 (no. 1100)).
Marie-Rose Lapière, La lettre ornée dans les manuscrits mosans d'origine bénédictine, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège, 229 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1981), p. xxv.
Thomas Smith Pattie, 'Ephraem the Syrian and the Latin Manuscripts of 'De Paenitentia', The British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 1-24.
Fabian C. Lochner, 'La "notation d'Echternach" reconsidérée', Revue belge de Musicologie, 44 (1990), 41-55 (p. 46).
Charles Burnett, 'John of Seville and John of Spain: A Mise au Point', in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 44 (2002), 59-78 (pp. 73-74).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 96.
Tjamke Snijders, ‘Reconsidering Benedictine Manuscript Production in the Thirteenth Century: The Case of Stavelot-Malmedy’, Revue du Nord, 96.407 (2014), 781-809 (p. 793).
- 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.