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Add MS 9381
- Record Id:
- 032-002737386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002737386
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022564071.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174219850.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 9381
- Title:
- Gospel-book with added Cornish records of manumissions ('The Bodmin Gospels' or 'St Petroc Gospels')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The four Gospels. The text of the Gospels displays Irish variants with the interpolation of Mass formulae common in Breton gospel-books (Cohen and Teviotdale, 'Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves' (1999), p. 67).
ff. 2r-5v: Epistles and prologues;
ff. 5v-7v Preface and chapter list to St Matthew's Gospel;
ff. 9r-13v: Canon Tables;
ff. 14r-47v: St Matthew's Gospel;
ff. 48r-49r: Chapter list and preface to St Mark's Gospel;
ff. 50r-71v: St Mark's Gospel;
ff. 71v-73v: Chapter list and preface to St Luke's Gospel;
ff. 74r-107r: St Luke's Gospel;
ff. 107r-108r: Preface and chapter list to St John's Gospel;
ff. 109r-132v: St John's Gospel;
ff. 132v-140v: Liturgical calendar and Gospel readings, 'Capitulare evangeliorum de anni circulo'.
51 records of grants of manumission at St Petroc's, Bodmin (Cornwall), in Latin and Old English, added between the 2nd quarter of the 10th century and the 1st quarter of the 11th century on blank leaves (ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 141r) and in blank spaces and margins (ff. 2r-7v, 13r, 133v). Some entries now erased (ff. 6v, 108r-v).
Decoration:
Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 9r-13v). A frame with five roundels (f. 108v), probably intended for a Majestas (Christ in Majesty) composition (Wormald, Early Breton Gospel Book (1977)). Initials with zoomorphic and interlace decoration in brown or red and brown (ff. 14r, 14v, 50r, 74r, 109r). Initials, rubrics and running titles in red. Drawing of a man's head in profile (f. 75r). Anglo-Saxon neumes have been added at the top margin of versicles and responses at the beginning of the Gospel of St Luke (ff. 77v-78r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002737386
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002737386
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174219850.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 1025
- Date Range:
- 875-1025
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm (text space: 210 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 141 + f. 13* (f. 13* is a blank parchment leaf, ff. 1 and 141 are parchment flyleaves; + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 3 parchment flyleaves at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule, hybrid minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600. The boards and endleaves are probably from the 12th century. The upper board has a deep central recess and both boards have the remains of a red-dyed skin cover of uncertain date. Refurbished in the late 19th century, when the box was probably made.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Brittany.
Provenance:
The Benedictine (later Augustinian) priory of St Petroc, Bodmin, by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the names of three bishops of Cornwall, Comoere, Wulfsige and Burhwold, and possibly a fourth, Athelgard, which is partially illegible). Some records are erased but 51 remain, dated 941 to 1043 (ff. 1, 8, 13 and 141).
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller.
Bought by the British Museum from Rodd in May 1833.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Davies Gilbert, The Parochial History of Cornwall, 4 vols (London: Nichols and Son, 1838), III, pp. 408-15, available online at http://access.dl.bl.uk/lsidyv3e680130 [accessed on 15th March 2012], [a transcription of the text of the manumissions].
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 34.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 59).
H. Jenner, 'The Bodmin Gospels: Presidential Address of the Spring Meeting of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 23rd May, 1922', Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (1923), 97-145.
E. R. Forster, 'Die Freilassungsurkunden des Bodmin-Evangeliars' in A Grammatical Miscellany offered to Otto Jespersen (London: Allen and Unwin, 1930), p. 77.
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 28.
Theodor Klauser, Das Römische Capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. XLIX.
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), p. 190.
Cecilia Sisam and Kenneth Sisam, The Salisbury Psalter, edited from Salisbury Cathedral MS. 150, Early English Text Society, 242 (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 30.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 126.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 10.
Graham Pollard, 'Some Anglo-Saxon Bookbindings' The Book Collector, 24 (1975), 130-59, (p. 158).
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), p. 73.
Francis Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel Book, ed. by Jonathan Alexander (Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1977), pp. 11, n. 4, 13, n. 1.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 17*.
Patrick McGurk, ‘The Disposition of Numbers in Latin Eusebian Canon Tables’, in Philologia Sacra: Biblische und patristische Studien für Hermann J. Frede und Walter Thele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Roger Gryson (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 242-58 (p. 254).
Olivier Szerwiniak and Patrick McGurk, 'Des recueils d'interprétations de noms hébreux (suite)', Scriptorium: revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 50 (1996), 117-22 (p. 121, 122, n. 25).
Richard Marsden, 'Ask What I am Called: The Anglo-Saxons and Their Bibles', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 145-76 (p.175).
Adam Cohen and E.C. Teviotdale, 'The Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves and New Testament illustration around the year 1000', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 53.1 (1999) 36-81 (p. 67, n. 22).
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 279.
Richard Gameson, 'The Insular Gospel Book at Hereford Cathedral', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 56 (2002), 48-79 (p. 52, n. 24).
Louis Lemoine, 'Autour du Scriptorium de Landévennec' in Corona monastica: melanges offerts au pere Marc Simon, ed. by Louis Lemoine et Bernard Merdrignac, Britannia Monastica, 8 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004), pp. 155-64 (pp. 156, 158-64).
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 118.
Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 62.
Helen McKee, 'Script in Wales, Scotland and Cornwall', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 1400-1557 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 167-73 (p. 170, n. 15).
Rebecca Rushforth, 'Latin Script in England: Caroline Minuscule' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 1400-1557 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 197-224 (p. 202-03).
Michael Gullick, 'Bookbindings' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), I: 1400-1557 (2011), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 294-309 (p. 295, n. 50).
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 150 [exhibition catalogue].
Beatrice E. Kitzinger, 'Representing the Gospels Beyond the Carolingian Center', in Imago libri: représentations carolingiennes du livre, ed. by Charlotte Denoël, Anne-Orange Poilpré, and Sumi Shimahara, Bibliologia, 47 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 151-61 (pp. 159-60), pl. 63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)