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Add MS 48039/1
- Record Id:
- 032-003725657
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003725657
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112459424.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 48039/1
- Title:
- A medieval bifolium, previously used as binding for Add MS 48039
- Scope & Content:
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This bifolium was previously used as the cover of Add MS 48039: Papers of Robert Beale relating to religious affairs, c. 1584-1591.
Contents:
This unfoliated bifolium contains hitherto unidentified fragmentary sections of the Franciscan teacher Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349)’s Postilla super epistolas Pauli. The first leaf contains his commentary on 1 Corinthians 1 (incomplete at the beginning and end). The second leaf contains commentary on 1 Corinthians 3 (end only), 4, and 5 (beginning only). The text on the two folios is non-consecutive, but only a relatively small portion of 1 Corinthians is missing in between. This indicates that the bifolium immediately followed the innermost bifolium [containing 1 Corinthians 1 (ending only), 2 (entirely), 3 (beginning only)] of a quire in the original manuscript from which it was removed.
Decoration:
2 large (4-line) blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. Blue and red paraphs and underlining in red throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003725657", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 48039/1: A medieval bifolium, previously used as binding for Add MS 48039" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003725657
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003725657
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 bifolium
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 480 x 330 mm (text space: 330 x 210 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: 2 unfoliated leaves that are part of a single parchment sheet, originally folded in half to create a bifolium for a medieval manuscript; after the bifolium had been removed from its original manuscript, its outer corners were cut off and outer and lower margins folded in order to match its dimensions with that of another book, perhaps the late 16th-century herbal for which it served as a cover before it was attached to Add MS 48039. At the middle of the sheet, there are holes for the sewing on Add MS 48039. The two leaves are heavily damaged and torn.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England or France.
Provenance:
This bifolium was taken from a 14th-century manuscript produced in England or France, and re-used as a cover/binding for 16th-century books and manuscripts, including Add MS 48039. Perhaps Robert Beale (1541-1601), whose papers are collected in Add MS 48039, added the bifolium himself. However, it is uncertain whether his papers were bound together during his life-time. The bifolium was certainly attached to Add MS 48039 when Beale's papers descended through the family of Sir Henry Yelverton (b. 1566, d. 1630): the Yelverton pressmark ‘44’ is twice written (upside down) in the lower margin of the verso of the bifolium's second leaf.
A late 16th- or early 17th-century inscription (‘Herbariu[m] Turniseri [? Lat.]’) on the inner margin of the verso of the second leaf indicates that the bifolium was first used as the binding for another book. The Yelverton Manuscripts (1994), p. 141 suggests that this may have been a book of William Turner (d. 1568). However, this was almost certainly the printed herbal of the alchemist Leonhard Thurneysser (b. 1531, d. 1596): Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer, Elementischer und Natürlicher Wirckungen Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen [Historia sive Descriptio Plantarum omnium] (Berlin, 1578). The folded bifolium perfectly matches the dimensions of the 1578 edition.
- Publications:
- The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: The Yelverton Manuscripts: Part 1: Description (London: British Library, 1994), p. 141.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nicholas of Lyra, c 1270-1349,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455664189 - Places:
- England
France - Related Material:
- Add MS 48039: Papers of Robert Beale relating to religious affairs, c. 1584-1591.