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Add MS 47674
- Record Id:
- 040-001780153
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104019
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00012d
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47674
- Title:
- Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), with parallel Latin text
- Scope & Content:
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Psalms and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), followed by the Athanasian Creed, with parallel Latin text throughout.
The manuscript includes several additions, corrections and annotations by the Paduan grammarian Pietro da Montagnana:
f. 1v: An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, title: 'Nicolaus de Lyra de provincia francie de ordine minorum in commentariis suis super psalmos loquitur in hunc modum', incipit: 'Sciendum quod beatus hieronimus.'
f. 2v: (lower margin): An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, 'Nicolaus de Lyra super psalterio', incipit: 'Apprehendire disciplinam.'
f. 3r: (lower margin): An excerpt from Jerome, 'Hieronymus in suo breviario super psalterio', incipit: 'Apprehendire disciplinam.'
f. 70v: (lower margin): An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, 'Nicolaus de Lyra ita glosat hunc passum', incipit: 'Misit in eos.'
f. 106v: An excerpt form Peter Lombard ('magister sententiarum'), incipit: 'In hoc autem psalmo.'
ff. 130v-131: Canticle of Isaiah 'Confitebor' in Greek and Latin.
f. 140v: An apocryphal Psalm 151 'Pusillus eram' in Greek and Latin.
f. 141r: Hebrew alphabet.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104019
040-001780153 - Is part of:
- Add MS 47672-47683 : HOLKHAM HALL MANUSCRIPTS.MSS. 47672-47683 formed part of the Library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.…
Add MS 47674 : Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), with parallel Latin text - Contains:
- Add MS 47674, ff 2r-130v : Psalms of David in the Septuagint version, not including Psalm 151, with parallel Latin text.
Add MS 47674, ff 131r-140r : Canticles and Athanasian Creed in parallel Greek and Latin texts.
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- 032-002104019[0003]/040-001780153
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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142 folios
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1215
- End Date:
- 1235
- Date Range:
- c 1220-c 1230
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 142 (+ 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end; f i is a paper pastedown; ff ii-iv are loose modern paper leaves; f 149 is a blank parchment leaf; ff 1, 141-142 are added leaves).
Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm.
Ruling: 200 x 135 mm, 32 lines per page. Leroy J 00E2.
Collation: i8+1 (ff. 1-9; f. 1 is an added singleton); ii-x8 (ff. 10-81); xi8+1 (ff. 82-90); xii8-1 (ff. 91-97); xiii-xvii8 (ff. 98-137); xviii3 (ff. 138-140); xix2 (ff. 141-142). Quire signatures (numbers).
Binding: Mid-19th century leather binding with tooled and gilt decoration; gilt ostrich stamp of the Coke family on the upper cover.
Script: Latin text written in Gothic script.
Decoration: 8 pairs of illuminated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of the divisions of the Psalter, historiated at the beginning of the Latin text and decorated with foliate scrolls at the beginning of the Greek text (ff. 2r, 22r, 34v, 46v, 58v, 73v, 87r, 101v). Pen-flourished initials at the beginning of the Psalms: blue with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of the Greek text and red with blue pen-flourishing at the beginning of the Latin text. Verse initials in blue and red. Line-fillers in blue and red.
The subjects of the historiated initials are:
f. 2r: Initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing his harp and David killing Goliath (Psalm 1).
f. 22r: Initial 'D'(ominus) of David pointing at his eyes with Christ (Psalm 26).
f. 34v: Initial 'D'(ixi) of David pointing at his mouth with Christ (Psalm 37).
f. 46v: Initial 'D'(ixit) of David and a fool (Psalm 52).
f. 58v: Initial 'S'(alvum) of David in waters and Christ Pantocrator above (Psalm 68).
f. 73v: Initial 'E'(xultate) of David playing the bells (Psalm 80).
f. 87r: Initial 'C'(antate) of two prophets holding books (Psalm 97).
f. 101v: Initial 'D'(ixit) of the Throne of Grace (Psalm 109).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Pietro da Montagnana (d. 1478), humanist, grammarian and rector of the parish of S. Fermo in Padua: additions and annotations in his hand (see ff. 1v, 130v, 131r, 140v, etc., see Content); bequeathed by him to the Canons Regular of the Lateran of S. Giovanni di Verdara where he retired in 1457 with his entire library (see Hunt (1973)): inscription dated 1478 recording the bequest: 'Liber hunc can[noni]cis Regu[lari]bus lat[er]an[ensis] in Mon[asterium] Divi Joannis Baptiste de viridaria Padue agentibus vir venerabilis ac devotus Christi sec[er]dos que bonar [illegible word] cultor grece latine hebraice eaque p[er]itissimus D. Petrus Montagnana optime fide pietatis studio pro que salute adsc[ri]psit atque donavit que quibusque [illegible word] p[ro]ficiat p[ri]mu[m] d[ominu]m sit gracias MCCCCLXXVIII' (f. 142v). For a similar inscription see Harley MS 2454, f. 85v.
The monastery of the Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Giovanni di Verdara, Padua: listed in the catalogue of the library of S. Giovanni, see Tomasini (1639), p. 29; purchased from the Canons with other manuscripts from their library by Thomas Coke in 1717.
Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (b. 1697, d. 1759), politician, architect, and art collector, included in his collection in Holkham Hall.
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham (b. 1754, d. 1842), politician and agriculturist: his bookplate (f. i); included in the library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, as MS 22; ff. ii-iv include notes on the manuscript, the first in the hand of Rev. Charles Warbuton James, librarian at Holkham.
- Former External References:
- Holkham Hall, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 22
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased 5 April 1952 along with other manuscripts from the Holkham Hall library.
- Administrative Context:
- France (Paris): The illumination of this manuscript has been located by Branner (1977), in the circle of the Parisian workshops working on the Bibles moralisées in Vienna (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ms. 1179 and ms. 2554) and Toledo, Tesoro de la Catedral. The corpus of other manuscripts illuminated by this artist has been established by de Floriani (1990), named as the Master of the Albenga Psalter, and expanded by Frońska (2007).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts]
Select digital coverage available on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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G. F. Tomasini, Bibliothecae Patavinae Manuscriptae publicae et privatae, Udine, 1639, p. 29
L. Dorez, Les manuscrits a peintures de la bibliotheque de Lord Leicester a Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Paris, 1908, pp. 32-33, pl. XXII.
G. Haseloff, Die Psalterillustration im 13. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden, Kiel, 1938, pp. 21-27, 104-105
T. C. Skeat, 'Manuscripts and Printed Books from the Holkham Hall Library, part II: The Manuscripts', British Museum Quarterly 17 (1952), pp. 25-33 (no. 8).
W. O. Hassall, The Holkham Library, London, 1970, p. 23.
R. W. Hunt, 'Pietro da Montagnana: A Donor of Books to San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua', Bodleian Library Record 9 (1973-1978), pp. 17-22.
R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles, Berkeley, 1977, pp. 48-49, 206.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Library, 1951-1955, London, 1982, pp. 43-44.
A. de Floriani, Miniature parigine del duecento: Il Salterio di Albenga e altri manoscritti, Genua, 1990, pp. 51-54 and passim.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 264.
John Lowden, The Making of the 'Bibles Moralisées', 2 vols, University Park 2000, I, pp. 312-13, n. 72.
S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture, London, 2007, p. 98, fig. 85.
J. Frońska, 'Fonctions et usages des images dans les manuscrits juridiques: Le Digestum Vetus de Justinien de la Bibliothèque de Kórnik, BK 824', 2 vols, unpublished doctoral disseration, University of Poitiers, Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale and Univerity of Warsaw, 2007, I, pp. 79-89, II, Appendix II.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)