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Add MS 23211
- Record Id:
- 032-002097188
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002097188
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x000304
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058079177.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23211
- Title:
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Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early modern book.
Folio 1 was taken out of the codex in the 1990s for exhibitions. When it was replaced, it put back in the codex with the former verso as the recto, and vice versa, which reveals an extra line of text at the bottom of the genealogies that had previously been obscured by the paper guard.
The manuscript includes:
f. 1r (formerly f. 1v, before 1997): 1 West Saxon and 3 East Saxon royal genealogies;
f. 1v (formerly f. 1r, before 1997): Latin verses entitled 'Versus de lun.' and 'De lun. accend.' and the title 'versus de diebus';
f. 2: fragment of the Old English Martyrology, covering April 14, 18, 21, and 23.
Decoration: coloured initials surrounded by dots and red titles throughout; 1 initial with colour and penwork decoration (f. 2r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002097188
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002097188
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058079177.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 135 x 180 mm (text block: 100 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 2 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, 1 between ff. 1 and 2 and 10 at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Kingdom of Wessex), late 9th century: the West Saxon regnal list ends with Alfred and the script is not inconsistent with a date in Alfred's reign.
Provenance:
The two parchment leaves were cut down to an octavo size and formed the pastedown of a printed book in the British Museum collections: a note on the front flyleaf states 'Received from the Dept of Printed Books, 31 March 1859', although it is not currently known from which book these fragments were taken.
- Information About Copies:
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A. N. Doane, 'London, British Library, Add. 23211', in Saints' Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual 'Rule of St. Benedict, British Library, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 19 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010), pp. 1-4.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 848.
The Oldest English Texts, ed. by H. Sweet, Early English Text Society, original series 83 (London, 1885), pp. 177-8
Cecilia Sisam, ‘An Early Fragment of the Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies, 4 (1953), 209-20 (pp. 210-12, 216).
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 127.
G. Kotzor, ‘St Patrick in the Old English Martyrology: On a Lost Leaf of MS. C.C.C.C. 196', Notes and Queries, 21 (1974), 86-87.
Raymond Page, 'Anglo-Saxon Texts in Early Modern Transcripts', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6 (1977), 69-83 (p. 76).
Das altenglische Martyrologium, ed. by G. Kotzor, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., ns 88.1-2, 2 vols (Munich, 1981), II [includes edition] .
Barbara Yorke, 'The kingdom of the East Saxons', Anglo-Saxon England, 14 (1985), 1-86 (pp. 9-10, 13, 15, 16, 18).
Jennifer Morrish, ‘Dated and Datable Manuscripts Copied in England during the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Mediaeval Studies, 50 (1988), 512-38 (p. 531).
Karen Quinn and Kenneth Quinn, A Manual of Old English Prose (New York: Garland, 1990), no. 603.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 30 [exhibition catalogue].
David Dumville, Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural, and Ecclesiastical Revival (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1992), p. 92 n. 182, pl. IV-V.
English Historical Documents I, c. 500-1042, ed. by Dorothy Whitelock, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1979, reprinted 1996), p. 151.
The Transformation of the Roman World, AD 400-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Michelle P. Brown (Berkley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 218-19.
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 25-27, 35.
David Dumville, 'English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century' in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto, 2005), I, pp. 305-25 (p. 319).
Jane Roberts, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 45.
Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), p. 80, pl. 58.
David Pratt, The Political Thought of Alfred the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 183.
The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, ed. by Christine Rauer (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013), pp. 1, 19, 311-12 [inculdes edition].
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 282.
Christine Rauer, The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography, Electronic book, https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cr30/martyrology/index.htm [accessed 18 December 2015].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)