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Add MS 16963
- Record Id:
- 032-002094758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094758
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00013e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059054187.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16963
- Title:
- John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni
- Scope & Content:
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This is a 10th- or 11th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia). It contains the life of St Gregory the Great (d. 604) by John the Deacon of Rome, also known as Johannes Hymonides (d. late 9th century), a popular work among monastic audiences. The manuscript remained at Stavelot until the sale of its manuscripts in 1847.
Contents:
ff. 2v-140r: John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni (The Life of Gregory the Great), beginning ‘Versus Joannis Levite’.
The manuscript contains two later additions:
ff. 1r-v: A fragment of a 12th-century Gradual, 'Beatus petrus apostolus vicit'.
ff. 2v-14v: A 15th-century copy of the opening of the Vita Gregorii Magni that replaces the opening of the text that probably had been copied in the 10th century as well but was lost at some point.
Decoration:
Large and small red initials and small brown initials throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094758
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094758
- 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_100059054187.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 10th century-11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (text space: 215 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 140 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 2r-10v are paper leaves; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 10 and f. 11; the lower half of f. 140 has been replaced with a new parchment leaf.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘VITA GREGORII PAPÆ’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Stavelot, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, owned from the last quarter of the 12th century until 1847 (the sale of its manuscripts at Ghent): a note on f. [iii] recto: ‘(Lot 273 of the Stavelot sale at Ghent)’; purchased by Thomas Rodd.
Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: purchased from him by the British Museum on 22 May 1847 (a note on f. [iii] recto: ‘Purchased of Thomas Rodd 22 May 1847’) for £8.80.
- Information About Copies:
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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. 332-33.
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister, 'Berichte über die im Auftrage der Kirchenvater-Commission unternommene Durchforschung der Bibliotheken Englands', Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 85 (Vienna: Gerold, 1877), p. 485-584 (p. 523).
Theodor Gottlieb, Über Mittelalterliche Bibliotheken (Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1890), p. 290.
John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii I papae (B.H.L. 3641-3642). Vol. 1: La tradizione manoscritta, ed. by Lucia Castaldi, Archivium Gregorianum, 1 (Florence: Sismel, 2004), pp. xlvi, l, 166-68.
- 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.