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Add MS 18604
- Record Id:
- 032-002095192
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095192
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000267
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18604
- Title:
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St Augustine, De Trinitate
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the text De Trinitate (On the Trinity) by St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Although it was written in central France, one of the four scribes working on the manuscript was English (writing a short portion on f. 24r) [see Bougard and Petitmengin, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye (2012), p. 35].
ff. 1r-148r: St Augustine, De Trinitate, including capitula for each of the 15 books (ff. 1r-v), as well as capitula before the start of each separate book.
f. 148v: After a blank line, the subscript stemming from an exemplar written in Campania, Italy, in 559 is included. This subscript tends to occur only in Cistercian copies of De Trinitate [see Bougard and Petitmengin, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye (2012), p. 56]. The subscript reads: ‘Emendavi ut potui imperatore domno Justiniano anno XXXIII indictione VII. VI. kalendas Junias in provincia Campania, territorio Cumano, in possession nostra Acherusio.’
Decoration:
Medium or small initials mark the beginning of each book and its subdivisions, almost all in red (except for two that are green, ff. 46r-v), some with penwork flourishing. Rubrics in red throughout. A running header added: in black in the late 12th century (ff. 1v-52r), and in red in the second half of the 13th century (ff. 52v-148r).
A marginal pen-drawing of two human heads, one wearing a crown, in ink on f. 53v, and traced (mirrored) in lead-point on f. 53r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002095192
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002095192
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm (written area: 225 x 155 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 148 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red gold-tooled leather with marbled endpapers; gilt fore-edge; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'DIVVS AVGVSTINVS DE SANCTA TRINITATE’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Courgenay, Central France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of Vauluisant, near Courgenay, founded in 1127: 16th-century shelfmark ‘P XII’ (f. 1r), which matches item no. 97 of the inventory of the Abbey library made c. 1525 (now lost but known from 17th and 18th-century copies): ‘Augustinus de s. Trinitate. Pulp. XII. Litt. R.’; 17th-century shelfmark ‘55’ (f. 1r), which matches item no. 55 in the transcription made in 1680 of a now lost 17th-century inventory of the Abbey library: ‘Augustinus de trinitate’.
Gratien-Théodore Tarbé (b. 1770, d. 1848), French printer, bookseller, writer and editor active in Sens: part of his collection by 1828 when he sent a list of the medieval manuscripts in his collection to Gustav Friedrich Hänel (b. 1792, d. 1878), who included this list in his publication Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum qui in bibliothecis Galliae, Helvetiae, Belgii, Britanniae M., Hispaniae, Lusitaniae asservantur (Lepizig, 1830), as no. 18.
Jean-Baptiste Baillière (b. 1797, d. 1885), French publisher and bookseller: bought at the sale of the library of Gratien-Théodore Tarbé in 1849 for 32 francs [see Bougard and Petitmengin, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye (2012), p. 294].
Joseph Lilly (b. 1804, d. 1870), bookseller: acquired from Jean-Baptiste Baillière at some point before 12 April 1851, when the manuscript was bought from him by the British Museum for £11 11s, note on f. [i]verso: ‘Purchased of Jos. Lilly, 12th April 1851’.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the MSS of the British Museum in the Years 1848-1851 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 120.
André Wilmart, 'La Tradition des grands ouvrages de saint Augustin' in Miscellanea Agostiniana: Testi e Studi , 2 vols (Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1931), II: Studi Agostiniani , pp. 127 (n. 4), 274.
Franz Römer, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus , Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Sitzungsberichte, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 276 (Vienna: Böhlau, 1969-74), II/2: Grossbritannien und Irland. Verzeichnis nach Biblioteken (1972), p. 153.
A. Bondéelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques cisterciennes dans la France médiévale. Répertoire des abbeys d'hommes , Documents, Études et Répertoires, 50 (Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1991), p. 324.
Dominique Stutzmann, La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye cistercienne de Fontenay (Côte-d'Or): Constitution, organisation, dissolution (12e-18e siècle) (unpublished Master's thesis, l'École des Chartes, 2002) II, pp. 107-09.
François Bougard and Pierre Petitmengin, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye Cistercienne de Vauluisant: Historie et inventaires (Paris: CNRS, 2012), pp. 40, 87, 108, 124, 154-55, 176-77 (no. 10).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Baillière, Jean-Baptiste, publisher and bookseller, of Paris and London, 1797-1885
Lilly, Joseph, Bookseller, 1804-1870
Tarbé, Gratien-Théodore, printer, bookseller, writer and editor, of Sens, 1770-1848 - Subjects:
- Theology
- Places:
- Courgenay, France
- Related Material:
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Catalogue of Additions to the MSS of the British Museum in the Years 1848-1851 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 120:
‘B. AUGUSTINI, Hipponensis Episcopi, de Trinitate libri xv. Vellum; XIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 18,604.]'