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Add MS 23934
- Record Id:
- 032-002097577
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002097577
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x00037b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23934
- Title:
- Glossed Gospel of St John
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Park near Louvain. It contains the Gospel of St John with Glossa Ordinaria.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: A prologue with glosses, beginning ‘Hic est Johannes evangelista unus ex discipulis dei qui virgo electus’.
ff. 3r-95r: The Gospel of John, with Glossa Ordinaria.
[f. 95v is empty].
Decoration:
1 large initial in red, green, yellow (imitation gold) and blue with red penwork (f. 1r). 1 large initial in blue and ochre with red penwork (f. 3r). Small display capitals in red and green on f. 1r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002097577", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 23934: Glossed Gospel of St John" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002097577
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002097577
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_23934 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1130
- End Date:
- 1170
- Date Range:
- Mid 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm (text space: 165 x 140 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 95 ( + 1 unfoliated modern paper leaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding, containing an erased bookplate on the upper and lower binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘EVANGELIUM JOANNIS GLOSSA’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Leuven, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
The Premonstratensian abbey of Park near Louvain, in the 17th or 18th century: its pressmark ‘J. Theca II’ on the inside upper cover; its binding stamp on the upper and lower cover, erased by Antoine-Ferdinand Geets (b. 1805), a Louvain bookseller, who obliterated all the provenance marks in Park Abbey’s manuscripts for the sale of their library: Louvain, 28 October, 1829, p. 38, no. 15 (Coppens, ‘The Incunabula of Parc Abbey’ (2010), p. 31); a note in pencil on f. [i] recto: ‘From the Monastery of the Park near Louvain’.
Joseph Thomas Hand (fl. 1834-1837), until 1837 (?): a bookplate with his shield (argent a chevron azure between three sinister hands appaumé couped at the wrist and erect gules, surmounted by the crest of a stag trippant proper over a torse) and initials (erased) pasted on the inside of the upper cover; perhaps his partially erased signature with the year ‘1835’ on f. [i] recto.
Henry Holland (b. 1775, d. 1855), London architect: his sale Sotheby’s, London, 31 July 1860, lot 1953; see the note on f. [i] recto, and Sotheby’s and Wilkinson’s Catalogue of the Valuable and Important Libraries of Lancelot Holland, Esq. of Langley Farm, Beckenham and of his brother Henry Holland, Esq. of Montagu Square (1860), p. 140 (no. 1953), where the manuscript is described as ‘Evangelium secundum S. Joannem, cum Glossa’. Purchased by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), p. 920
Christian Coppens, ‘The Incunabula of Parc Abbey (Heverlee, Leuven)’, De Gulden Passer, 88.2 (2010), pp. 23-70 [on Park Abbey’s library, without a reference to this manuscript].
Emile Van Balberghe, Les manuscrits médiévaux de l'Abbaye de Parc: recueil d'articles, Documenta et Opuscula, 13 (Brussels: Ferraton and Van Balberghe, 1992), p. 163.
- 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.