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- Record Id:
- 032-002094768
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094768
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000148
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064567496.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16974
- Title:
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St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (books I-IV); Eusebius of Caesara, Chronicon (with additions); Stephen of Saint Trond, Miracula Sancti Trudonis; Passio Sancti Gorgonii; Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), the Chronicon (Chronicle), a universal history written by Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and two anonymous saints' lives. The manuscript may have been put together at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Trond (Sint-Truiden), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey, in two stages. According to Bischoff, ff. 1-56 were written in North Eastern France in the 3rd-4th quarter of the 9th century (see Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), p. 97). The texts on ff. 114r-129v were written in the last quarter of the 11th century. The manuscript may have remained at Saint-Trond until the Abbey's dissolution in 1798.
Contents:
ff. 1v-56v: St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (Books I-IV), with a prologue addressed to Eusebius of Cremona (d. 423), and a table of contents.
ff. 57r-113v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with additions from St Jerome, Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Marius of Avenches (b. 532, d. 596), and an anonymous author, to A.D. 623.
ff. 114r-127r: Stephen of Saint-Trond [Stepelinus Trudonensis], Miracula Sancti Trudonis.
ff. 127v-129r: Anonymous, Passio Sancti Gorgonii (The Martyrdom of St Gorgon).
ff. 129r-129v: Anonymous, Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape (The Martyrdom of St Cornelius).
[f. 1r is blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in brown ink with some red filling on f. 1v; 1 large initial in brown ink with interlace decoration (f. 41r); Large and small initials in red (some oxidized) or brown ink; small initials highlighted in red; display script (rustic capitals) in brown and red; rubrics in red; Roman numerals in red. Large crosses in red and brown ink in the margins of the Chronicon for events of the life and death of Christ (ff. 98r-98v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094768
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094768
- 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_100064567496.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century-4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 250 mm (text space: 240 x 200, in 2 columns [ff. 1v-59v]; 240 x 180-190, in 3-5 columns [ff. 60r-113v]; 270 x 200 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 114r-129v]).
Foliation: ff. 129 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 56 and f. 57; 1 paper pastedown on f. [ii] recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: Caroline minuscule (ff. 1v-113v); Protogothic (ff. 114r-129v).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘S. HIERONYMI COMMENTARII IN MATTHÆUM. EUSEBII LIBER CHRONICORUM CUM CONTINUATIONE. VITA S. TRUDONIS. PASSIONES SANCTORUM’; blue endleaves; green and red speckled fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ; Northeastern France and Sint-Truiden (Saint-Trond), Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Trond (Sint-Truiden), founded in c. 655: its (?) 12th-century ownership inscription ‘Liber monasterij sancti Trudonis’ on f. 1r; its shelfmark references ‘N 3’ and ‘K 3’ on f. 1r; possibly owned the manuscript until the abbey was dissolved by French revolutionary troops in 1798.
John Payne and Henry Foss (fl. 1825-1850), London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum on 12 June 1847 (see note on f. [iii] recto: ‘Purchased of Payne & Foss. 12 June 1847’) as part of a group of twelve manuscripts that were acquired for £350.0.0.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Chronique de l'Abbaye de Saint Trond, ed. by Camille de Borman, 2 vols, Société des Bibliophiles liégeois, 10 and 15 (Liège: Grandmont-Donders, 1877), II, p. 145.
Marii Aventicensis Episcopi Chronicon, a tempore, quo Prosper Aquitanus desinit, usque ad annum vulgaris æra 581, cum appendice incerti auctoris, ed. by Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt, (Leipzig: Veit, 1878).
Ex Miraculis S. Trudonis auct. Stepelino, ed. by O. Holder Egger, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores 15/2 (Hannover: Hahn, 1888), pp. 821-30.
Marii episcopi Aventicensis chronica a. CCCCLV-DLXXXI, ed. by Theodor Mommsen, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiquissimi, 11 (Berlin: Weidmann, 1894), pp. 225-39.
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Instrumenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 200.
Molly Miller, 'The Last British Entry in the 'Gallic Chronicles', Britannia, 9 (1978), 315-18.
M. E. Jones and J. Casey, 'The Gallic Chronicle Exploded?', Britannia, 22 (1991), 212-15 (p. 213 n. 31).
Catherine Morton, 'Marius of Avenches, the 'Excerpta Valesiana,' and the Death of Boethius', Traditio, 38 (1982), 107-36.
Brian Croke, 'Chronicles, Annals and “Consular Annals” in Late Antiquity', Chiron: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 31 (Munich: Beck, 2001), 291-331.
David Dumville, 'What is a Chronicle?', in The Medieval Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999, ed. by Erik Kooper, Costerus New Series, 144 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), 1-27 (p. 12).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 97 (no. 2374).
Benjamin Steiner, Die Ordnung der Geschichte: Historische Tabellenwerke in der Frühen Neuzeit (Cologne: Böhlau, 2008), p. 136 n. 17
Richard Burgess, 'The Gallic Chronicle of 452: A New Critical Edition with a Brief Introduction', in Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources, ed. by Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 52-84 (pp. 63, 65, 66, 83).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.