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Add MS 9046
- Record Id:
- 032-003354971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003354971
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037629722.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059142966.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 9046
- Title:
- Psalter in Tironian notes
- Scope & Content:
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This 9th-century manuscript is one of a few early medieval manuscripts that contain a Psalter written entirely in Tironian notes. This is a shorthand that was attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), a slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was at Benedictine abbey of Saint-Remi at Rheims and remained there most likely until the abbey was dissolved during the French Revolutionary period.
ff. 1r-100v: The Book of Psalms in Tironian notes, with introductions written in a Latin script
Decoration:
Rubrics and display script (Rustic capitals; uncial/half-uncial script) in red. Tironian notes highlighted in blue. The imprint of a rusty pen on ff. 43v, 44r, 72v, and 73r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003354971
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003354971
- Container:
- not applicable
- 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_100059142966.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 155 x 110 mm (text space: 120 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 100 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. [iv] and f. [102] have been mounted on paper guards and covered with green silk pastedowns from a previous binding; f. [101] has been mounted on a paper guard; the quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Uncial; Half-uncial.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house: Green leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘TIRONIAN PSALTER 9th CENT.’; rebound in 1976: the previous binding is kept in a folder with the manuscript: Post-1600. White calf leather, the spine inscribed in brown ink: ‘Tironianis MS’ and the letter ‘K’; with a detached green silk cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern France.
Provenance:
A scriptorium in Northeastern France: suggested by the script (according to Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 93 (no. 2356)).
The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Remi at Rheims: its ownership inscription and book curse added to f. 1r in a 10th- or 11th-century script: ‘Liber Sancti Remigii qui eum abstulerit anatema sit’; its ownership inscription added to f. 1v and f. 33v in a 13th- or 14th-century script: ‘Liber Sancti Remigii Remensis vol VIIxx et V’; the manuscript is listed as no. 'CXLV' in an early 13th-century manuscript catalogue from its library (see Dolbeau, ‘Un catalogue fragmentaire’ (1988), p. 215).
An unknown 19th-century French owner: added a description of the manuscript in French on f. [101] recto.
Thomas Thorpe (b. 1791, d. 1851), London bookseller: purchased from him by the British Museum in August 1832 (see note on f. [iv] verso).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 6666-10018 (unpublished volume at the British Library: n. pub., n. d.), p. 61.
Oskar Lehman, Das Tironische Psalterium der Wolfenbütteler Bibliothek (Leipzig: Teubner, 1885), p. 4.
A Guide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Charters, Seals, Illuminations and Bindings Exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the Grenville Library (London: Clowes, 1890), p. 49 (no. 49).
Paul Legendre, Études tironiennes: Commentaire sur la VIe églogue de Virgile tiré d'un manuscrit de Chartres, Bibliothèque de l'École practique des hautes études: Science philologiques et historiques, 167 (Paris: Champion, 1907), p. 54.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 59).
James Mearns, The Canticles of the Christian Church: Eastern and Western, in Early and Medieval Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914; repr. 2011), p. 80 ('L').
François Dolbeau, ‘Un catalogue fragmentaire des manuscrits de Saint-Remi de Reims au XIIIe siècle’, Recherches Augustiniennes et Patristiques, 23 (1988), 213-43 (p. 215).
Roger Gryson, Altlateinische Handschriften/Manuscrits vieux Latins: Deuxième partie: Mss 300-485, Vetus Latina: Die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel, 1/2B (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2004), p. 177 (no. 392).
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 (no. 2356).
- 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.