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- Record Id:
- 032-002094774
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094774
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00014b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058595676.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16979
- Title:
- Necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes); Regula Sancti Benedicti
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes) followed by the rule of St Benedict. The manuscript is ending with several added notes related to the abbey and its confraternity.
In addition to the monks of St Gilles, the necrology mentions Raymon IV of Toulouse and several supporters of the Gregorian reform as for example Aton, archbishop of Arles; Hugh of Semur, abbot of Cluny (see Mazel, 'L'invention d'une tradition' (2005), p. 342).
This manuscript was originally bound together with the martyrology of the abbey, now Add MS 16918.
ff. 1r-21r: A necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles in the diocese of Nîmes with several additions, beginning: 'KL. Ianuarii. Obiit Adalardus abbatus'; ending: 'II. obierunt Eudo abbas, Stephanus, Bermundus, Bernardus'.
ff. 21v-62r: Regula Sancti Benedicti (Rule of St Benedict), preceded by a prologue (ff. 21v-23v) and capitula (ff. 23v-24v), beginning of the prologue (f. 21v): 'Obsculta , O fili recepta magistri et inclina aurem cordis tui'; beginning of the text (f. 25r): 'Monachorum quatuor esse genera manifestum est'; ending: 'Facientibus hec regna patebunt superba. Ad honorem Sancti Egidii Petrus Guillelmus fecit hunc librum in tempore domini Petri abbatis anno incarnate verbi M[illesimo] C.XX.V.IIII regnante Lodovico rege'.
Decoration:
A miniature in colours on a gold ground at the beginning of the Regula, showing St Benedict giving his rule to St Maurus and two other monks (f. 21v). A framed initial 'M'(onachorum) on a gold ground with interlace in green, purple, blue and red (f. 25r). Decorated initials in colours and gold. (e.g., f. 25v). Initials in green, blue or red with penwork decoration in the same or another colour. Rubrics in red or green capitals. Initials and numbering in red or brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094774
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094774
- 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_100058595676.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 × 170 mm (text space: 185 × 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 63 (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. i is a parchment flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Saint-Gilles (Nîmes), Southern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Gilles, diocese of Nîmes: the scribal colophon by Petrus Guillelmus, dated 1129: 'Ad honorem Sancti Egidii Petrus Guillelmus fecit hunc librum in tempore domini Petri abbatis anno incarnate verbi M[illesimo] C.XX.V.IIII regnante Lodovico rege' (f. 62r); added obit of prior Betrand of St Martin, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (d. 1278) and other additions relating to the abbey of St Gilles (f. 62v); added, late 12th century or early 13th century, four commemorative notes (partially erased) on the abbey; the last note is related to the confraternity of the Benedictine abbey of La-Chaise-Dieu (Auvergne) under the abbot Pontius (f. 63v); added, early 13th century, a Bull of Pope Lucius III to Abbot Ermengaudus of St Gilles (the 1st of February 1183), prohibiting any appeal by the monks against punishments provided by their rule (f. 63r); added, late 13th-century, decisions from the general chapter related to the commemoration of benefactors for the years 1275 and 1276 under Abbot Peter II of Lunel (Petrus de Lunello), mainly erased (f. 63v).
? A Dominican abbey, Chambéry: see note by Frederick Madden on f. i recto, which states that the manuscript was in the possession of 'Friar Preachers at Chambéry'.
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss on 12 June 1847.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A. Molinier, Les Obituaires français au moyen âge (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1890), no. 260.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 336.
Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts and Inscriptions: First Series, ed. by E. A. Bond, 2 vols (London: William Clowes and sons, 1873-1883), I, pl. 62.
M. Schapiro, 'New Documents on Saint-Gilles', Art Bulletin, 17 (1935), 414-31.
S. Harrison Thomson, Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages 1100-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), no. 2.
C. Hohler, 'A Note on Jacobus', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 35 (1972), 53-54.
Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons des manuscrits occidentaux des origins au XVIème siècle. Tome V: Colophons signés: P-Z (Fribourg: Éditions Universitaires, 1979), no. 15,570.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: The British Library, 1979), I, no. 174.
Jean-Loup Lemaître, Répertoire des documents nécrologiques français, Recueil des historiens de la France, VII, 2 vols (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980), II, no. 3071.
Ulrich Winzer, S. Gilles: Studien zum Rechtsstatus und Beziehungsnetz einer Abtei im Spiegel Ihrer Memorialüberlieferung (Munich: Wihelm Fink, 1988), pp. 97-116; 146-390; 420-39.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no. 51.
Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 332.
Florian Mazel, ''L'Invention d'une Tradition' Les Monastères Saint-Victor de Marseille et Saint-Gilles à la Recherché du Patronage de Pierre (XIe-XIIe siècles', in Ecrire son Histoire: les Communautés religieuses régulières face à leur passé, ed. by Nicole Bouter (Saint-Etienne: C.E.R.C.O.R, 2005), pp. 337-67 (p. 342).
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), p.164. - 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.