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Egerton MS 2818
- Record Id:
- 040-001984875
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000116.0x0003c4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056031357.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2818
- Title:
- Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (imperfect); John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consist of two parts bound together immediately after their execution at Pontigny. It was likely intended for the office of St Thomas, which was celebrated at Pontigny from 1174. The order of the two text were revised probably in the early modern period.
The Passion of St Thomas Becket was composed by John of Salisbury between 1173 and 1176 and the Passion and Miracles of St Thomas Becket was written by Benedict of Peterborough between 1172 and 1179. Both parts were copied shortly after the writing of these texts around 1180 (see Peyrafort, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny (2001) no. 80).
Contents:
ff. 2r-70v: Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (Passion and Miracles of St Thomas Becket), imperfect, ending: 'aliis qui astabant ut presbyter'. The table of the third book is incomplete due to the loss of one folio between folios 32-33. A bifolium has been misbound between ff. 62-63.
ff. 71r-78r: John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome (Passion of St Thomas Becket). Directions for twelve numbered lessons included in the margins (ff. 71-73r).
Decoration:
Four large initials in colours with foliate decoration at the beginning of some books or prologues (ff. 2r, 13v, 48v (x2)). Large initials alternating in red or blue, some with penwork decoration, at the beginning of chapters. Small initials in blue or red in the chapter lists. Quire signatures. Two red monochrome initials with palmettes (f. 71r).
The four large initials in Benedict of Peterborough's Passion and Miracles were decorated by the illuminator of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Marianus, Auxerre, also responsible for the decoration of Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipal, ms. 11. The other initials are the work of a scribe from the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny; also the red initials with palmettes in the second part (f. 71r) were produced at Pontigny but by another scribe according to Stirnemann, 'Le témoignage des manuscrits' (2001), p. 66.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984874
040-001984875 - Is part of:
- Egerton MS 2818-2824 : Sir Thomas Phillipps Manuscripts
Egerton MS 2818 : Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (imperfect); John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome - Hierarchy:
- 032-001984874[0001]/040-001984875
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton MS 2818-2824
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056031357.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 325 x 230 mm (text space: 240 x 170 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 78 ( + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end; f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled; half bound, with the Phillipps label '10227' on the spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pontigny, Central France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Pontigny: note by Phillipps in pencil 'Ex Abb. Pontigniaci, Auxerre' (f. 1r); cited in six 18th century catalogues (see Peyrafort, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny (2001), no. 80).
Bound together with a collection of historical documents: described in the modern catalogues (see above). Transferred to Auxerre at the beginning of the Revolution and was separated from this collection after 1794.
?John Thorpe (b. 1715/16, d. 1792) antiquary: owner (see Peyrafort, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny (2001), no. 80).
?Joseph-Félix Allard (b. 1795, d. 1831) priest of St Eustache's parish, bibliophile: sold to Philips (see Peyrafort, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny (2001), no. 80).
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and manuscripts: his shelfmark in pencil 'B24.736' (upper pastedown) and manuscript number 'Phillipps MS. 10,227' (f. 1r); his sale, 5 June 1899, lot 136, bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), no. Eg. 2818.
[C. H. Talbot], 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 272).
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1022 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 109.
P. Ambrosius Schneider, ‘Deutsche und französische Cistercienser-Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken’, Cistercienserchronik, 61/62 (1962), 43-54 (p. 46 no. 11).
La bibliothèque médiévale de l’abbaye de Pontigny (XIIe-XIXe) siècles: histoires, inventaires anciens, manuscrits. Documents, études et répertoires, 60, Histoire des bibliothèques médiévale, 11, ed. by Monique Peyrafort-Huin, with Patricia Stirnemann and Jean-Luc Benoit, (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001), no. 80, pl. 22. [with additional bibliography].
Patricia Stirnemann, 'Le témoignage des manuscrits: scribes et enlumineurs (1140-1220)’, in La bibliothèque médiévale de l’abbaye de Pontigny (XIIe-XIXe) siècles: histoires, inventaires anciens, manuscrits. Documents, études et répertoires, 60, Histoire des bibliothèques médiévale, 11, ed. by Monique Peyrafort-Huin, Patricia Stirnemann and Jean-Luc Benoit (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001), pp. 55-78 (pp. 65-66, 77).
Michel Staunton, Thomas Becket and his biographers. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 28 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2006), p. 220.
Anne Duggan, 'The Santa Cruz Transcription of Benedict of Peterborough's Liber miraculorum beati Thome Porto, BPM, cod. Santa Cruz 60', in Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Ashgate: Variorum, 2007), p. 34 [article no. XIII].
Anne Duggan, 'A Becket Office at Stavelot: London British Library Additional 16964', in Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Ashgate: Variorum, 2007), p. 161 [article no. XI].
- 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.