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- Record Id:
- 032-002108257
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x0003d2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055965026.0x000001
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- Add MS 10459
- Title:
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Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orléans (b. c. 760, d. 843), Bishop of Orléans, servant at the court of Louis the Pious (b. 778, d. 840) and advisor to his son, Pepin I of Aquitaine (b. 797, d. 838). The second text is a previously unidentified copy of the Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa (Letter of the Council of Aachen to King Pepin) by Jonas of Orléans. Both are works of religious instruction, particularly aimed at clerical authorities and kings. The manuscript, according to Bernhard Bischoff, may have been produced in Northeast France, in the second third of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 93).
Contents:
ff. 1r-105v: Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali, Books 1-2, imperfect due to illegible text on f. 1r and loss of some text (the final section of Book 2, Chapter 29) at the end [see Patrologia Latina, 106: 121-278].
ff. 106r-130r: Jonas of Orléans, Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa, Books I-III [see Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Conc. 2.2].
ff. 131r-165v: Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali, Book 3, imperfect (ends in Chapter 19).
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 2r, 4v, 5r, 71r, 107r, 129v: Latin inscriptions, some not legible, added in the (?) 9th century.
f. 130v: An office for St Crispin and St Crispinian, added in the (?) 9th century.
[f. 5v and f. 88v are empty].
Decoration:
Medium initials in brown or red. Rubrics and Roman numbers in red (sometimes oxidized). A drawing of a cross has been added in dry-point to the upper margin of f. 86r; a zoomorphic figure in brown ink to the right margin of f. 95r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002108257
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002108257
- Container:
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- 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_100055965026.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 195 mm (text space: 185 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 165v; 1 parchment stub f. 108 and f. 109; two thirds of f. 88 have been removed (no loss of text); The lower margins of ff. 1, 11, 48, 59, 63, 65, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75, 77, 84, 100, 102, 104, 105, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 137, 155, and 158 have been removed (no loss of text); the left margins of ff. 21, 26, 44, 54, 56, 66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 75, 78, 81, 87, 97, 99, 103, 104, 110, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 127, 133, and 138 have been removed (no loss of text); a hole has been cut in f. 6.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600. White leather over wooden boards with holes on the upper and lower covers indicating that bosses and a clasp were once present, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘JONÆ AURELIANENSIS EPISCOPI INSTITUTUIO LAICALIS’; a parchment pastedown on the binding flap on lower part of the upper cover, inscribed in a (?) 15th-century script: (?) 'euuangelior[um]'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Northeastern France.
Provenance:
An unknown French owner: a former owner's name may be inscribed in brown ink in a (?) 17th-century script on the inside upper cover: (?) 'Bo[n]gar[d]'.
Henry Speyr-Passavant (b. 1782, d. 1852), bookdealer of Basel: perhaps his notes in pencil on the inside cover ('31.0[1].1828') and on f. 162v ('B 162 Anfang A x B163') and f. 163v (B163); his sale, London, Evans, 27 April 1836, lot 16 (this number is also inscribed in pencil on the inside upper cover); purchased by John Payne and Henry Foss for £ 19.0.0 (The British Library’s annotated copy of Evans’s Catalogue 55).
John Payne and Henry Foss (fl. 1825-1850), London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum in May 1836 (note inside upper cover: ‘Purchased at Evans’s / May, 1836 (Speyr-Passavants MSS.)’).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: Woodfall, 1843), p. 39 (1836).
[Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), II: Latin, p. 52.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 59).
'Instruction des Laïcs': Introduction, Texte, Traduction et Notes, ed. by Odile Dubreucq, Sources Chrétiennes, 549-50, 2 vols (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012) [on the text].
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 93 (nos 2358-2359).
- 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.