Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Stowe MS 4
- Record Id:
- 040-001952780
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x00021a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059474693.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 4
- Title:
- Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
- Scope & Content:
-
This manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica (Scholastic History) by the theologian Petrus Comestor (d. 1187). The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle Ages. It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum (The Chronicle on the Three Chief Conditions of History) by Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141).
Contents:
ff. 1r-266v: Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, imperfect at the beginning, lacking chapters 1-2 of the Book of Genesis, and, at the end, lacking the chapters of the entire Book of Acts, beginning: ‘habet pro super ferebatur incubabat’.
ff. 267r-272v: Excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum by Hugh of Saint-Victor, beginning: ‘post diluvium quartum primum in humano genere regna’.
Decoration:
Large initials in red, some with penwork decoration. Numerous marginal annotations with decorated borders in red ink. Rubrics in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Quire signatures with simple decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952776
040-001952780 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 1-9 : CLASS I.BIBLE, WITH BIBLE HISTORIES, GOSPEL HARMONIES, ETC.
Stowe MS 4 : Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0001]/036-001952776[0004]/040-001952780
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059474693.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm (text space: 250 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 272 ( + 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1 is a paper flyleaf.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century red leather with elaborate gilt tooling, including birds and bees; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Eastern France.
Provenance:
? A scriptorium in Lorraine: the script is characteristic of the region of the duchy of Lorraine (see Harrison, 'The Reception' (2002), p. 24).
? 'John King', owned in 1647: inscribed with his name 'King 1647 John King' (f. 130r).
Ralph Palmer III (b. 1712, d. 1755), barrister, of Little Chelsea: inscribed with ‘Bibliotheca Palmeriana, / Londini, 1747', now partially erased (f. 1r).
Ralph Verney (b. 1714, d. 1791), 2nd Earl Verney, politician, Palmer’s cousin: bookplate with his arms (inside upper cover).
An unidentified 18th-century owner: entered the note 'Texts of the Old + New Testaments M S wrote in the 11th Cent.' (f. 1r).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham; inscribed with the press-mark 'Pres 3 No. 29' (f. 1r) corresponding to his catalogue, see O’Conor, Bibliotheca (1818-1819), pp. 34-35.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold the manuscript to Lord Ashburnham in 1849.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex: purchased the manuscript from Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville in 1849.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Publications:
-
Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, pp. 34-35.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, pp. 3-4 (no. 4).
Lars B. Mortensen, 'Hugh of St Victor on Secular History: A Preliminary Edition of Chapters from his Chronica', Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin, 62 (1992), 3–30 (p. 3 (n. 2)).
Julian Harrison, ‘The English Reception of Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Chronicle’, The Electronic British Library Journal (2002), 1-33 (pp. 3, 24-25).
- 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.