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Add MS 10943

Record Id:

032-002108758

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002108758

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x000347

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 10943

Title:

St Augustine, Epistolae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a selection of 144 of the Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), though several letters are only included in a highly abbreviated form. The order and selection of letters in the table of capitula at the beginning of the manuscript does not always match the order in the main text.

It was copied by the same scribe as Add MS 15603, at the abbey of Notre-Dame de La Charité [see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de La Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne (2000), p. 64].

ff. 1r-2v: Table of capitula.

ff. 2v-253r: St Augustine, Epistolae, beginning with Letter 137 to Volusianus, beginning: ‘Domino illustri et merito prestantissimo filio Volusiano’.

f. 253r: An inscription (possibly of ownership) in red below the end of the text has been completely rubbed or washed out and is now illegible.

[f. 253v is blank].

Decoration:

A large decorated initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork flourishing and a winged zoomorphic figure (f. 2v).

The start of subsequent letters is signalled throughout by medium initials (between 5 and 3 lines) in red, except for the first medium initial on f. 2v which is in blue, with penwork decoration in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002108758

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002108758

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1175

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 340 x 245 mm (written area: 165 x 185 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. 253 (+ 9 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 10 at the end); the lower margins of f. 132 and f. 133 have been cut.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house, 1837: light brown leather over wooden boards, subsequently repaired; the spine gold-tooled and inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'EPISTOLAE S.O AUGUSTINI. MUS. BRIT. JURE EMPTIONIS. 10,943. PLUT. CLXXXV. D.’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité, Eastern France.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de La Charité, Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité, founded in 1133: possible ownership inscription on f. 253r, now illegible; copied by the same scribe, and containing the same kind of decorated initials, as Add MS 15603, a manuscript demonstrably from Notre-Dame de La Charité [see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de la Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne (2000), p. 64]; cited in the Abbey's catalogue of 1757 by Guillaume Pinard as no. 14, ‘Un gros volume in-folio, en vélin, qui renferme les cent quarante-quatre épitres ou lettres du grand saint Augustine, acheté a Besançon en 1375 du sieur Pierre de Vilette, noble citoyen’ [see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de la Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne (2000), p. 122].

F. Gaudy, (fl. c. 1800-1837), legal professional (?): his ownership inscription is found in Add MS 10941 and Add MS 10942, and these two manuscripts were acquired from him by Mr Cochran before being sold, together with Add MS 10943, to the British Museum in 1837 by John Cochran [see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de la Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne (2000), p. 70].

John Cochran, (fl. c. 1820-1837), book-seller: bought from him by the British Museum in January 1837, note of purchase on f. [i]recto: ‘Purchased of Cochran, Jany 1837’.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), p. 23.

Jules Gauthier, 'Catalogue des manuscrits de l'abbaye cistercienne de La Charité au diocèse de Besançon', in Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, 42 (1881), 19-29 (no. 14, p. 22).

Léopold Delisle, ’Manuscrits de l’abbaye cistercienne de La Charité au Musée Britannique’, Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, 51 (1890), pp. 372-74.

A. Bondéelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques cisterciennes dans la France médiévale: répertoire des abbayes d'hommes (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1991), p. 149.

Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de La Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne. Collections cisterciennes et voies de transmission des textes (IXe-XIXe siècles), Documents, études et répertoires, 59, Histoire des bibliothèques médiévales, 10 (Paris: CNRS, 2000), pp. 62-63, 64, 70 122, pl. 9.

Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, 'Inventaire-Charité (La), Notre-Dame, O. Cist. (H)-1757', in Libraria: Pour l'histoire des bibliothèques anciennes (Paris: Institut de Recherches et d'Histoire des Textes, 2012) [accessed 20 January 2020].

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
Cochran, John, Bookseller

Places:

Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité, France

Related Material:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), p. 23:

‘S. AUGUSTINI Epistolarum liber, numero cxliv. Codex membranaceus, sec. xii. Folio. [10,943.]’