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- Record Id:
- 032-002094757
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00013d
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16962
- Title:
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Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum CI-CL
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus's (commonly known as Cassiodorus, c. 485-c.585) exposition of the Psalms (Expositio psalmorum), composed in Sicily in the sixth century. The manuscript was likely produced in the late ninth century at Stavelot.
Contents:
ff. 2r-210v: Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum CI-CL with Cassiodorus's symbols for examples of the liberal arts, names and letters from the Hebrew alphabet for references to the Old Testament, and annotations in the margins.
Two foliated flyleaves (ff. 1 and 211) feature fragments of 1 and 2 Maccabees, with a partially legible note about the feast day of a saint (?10th-century).
Decoration:
Two large initials with Insular penwork decoration: f. 2r: large initial with green and red colours and a zoomorphic figure (a lion) below; f. 55v: large initial in red and brown ink. Small initials in brown or red ink throughout the manuscript; initials with green colour (ff. 193v-194r).
The insular penwork decoration in the initials shows the influence of the Benedictine Abbey of Luxeuil where St Remaclus, founder of Stavelot, was trained as a monk.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094757
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094757
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16962 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0875
- Date Range:
- c 850-c 875
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 325 x 230 mm (text space 260 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 210. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end, plus thirteen unfoliated parchment stubs: f. 4*, f. 7*, f. 12*, f. 15*, 20*, f. 23*, f. 114*, f. 90*, f. 93*, f. 139*, f. 155*, f. 117*, f. 208*).
Script: Carolingian minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600. Blind-tooled and stamped brown leather with two clasps (missing).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Stavelot).
Provenance:
The Benedictine Abbey of Stavelot: in a 12th-century hand: 'Liber s[an]c[t]i Remacli Stabulen[sis]' (f. 210v); in a 15th-century hand: 'lib[er] eccl[es]i[a]e s[an]c[t]i remacli in stabulans' (f. 1v); in a 17th-century hand: 'Liber s[ancti] Remacli in Stabulans' (f. 2r); the binding features two shields with 'ST' monogram (probably from Stavelot).
Thomas Rodd (b.1796, d. 1849), bookseller. Purchased from him by the British Museum for £26. (Minutes, Acquisitions: 1846-1848, p. 288): f. [i]r reads 'Purchased of Ths. Rodd, 22 May 1847 (Lot 270 of the Stavelot sale at Ghent, 2d part)'.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Expositio Psalmorum LXXI-CL, ed. by M. Adriaen, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 98 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1958), pp. 890-1332.
Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 12 vols (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1950–1980), 8: Supplementum (1976), p. 374.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998–2014), Teil II: Laon–Paderborn (2004), p. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)