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Add MS 30844
- Record Id:
- 040-002022565
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001396.0x0001c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165148269.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30844
- Title:
- Mozarabic Liturgy: Liber misticus and Liber canticorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Contains parts of two manuscripts, bound together:
ff. 1r-172v: Liber misticus (imperfect).
ff. 173r-177v: Leaves from a Liber Canticorum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022564
040-002022565 - Is part of:
- Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain
Add MS 30844 : Mozarabic Liturgy: Liber misticus and Liber canticorum - Contains:
- Add MS 30844, ff 1-172 : Liber Misticus, Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy from the feast of Mary to Pentecost
Add MS 30844, ff 173-177 : Liber canticorum (fragment)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 30844 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002022564[0001]/040-002022565
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 30844-30857
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165148269.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 10th century or 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 390 x 300 mm (text space: 280 x 220 mm (ff. 1-172); 275 x 215 mm (ff. 173-177), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. ii + 179 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end); ff. i and ii are leaves from a paper bifolium attached to the third flyleaf; a paper bifolium numbered ff. 178 and 179 has been attached to the second flyleaf at the end.
Script: Visigothic minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Burgos, Northern Spain (ff. 1-172); Castile, Central Spain (ff. 173-177).
Provenance:
The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos: in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772, no. 30 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992)); an 18th-century list of contents is attached (ff. i, ii) and an inscription written in Spanish in Add MS 30845, f. 1 states that the present manuscript was at Silos and was part of a set with Add MS 30845, 'Es de sanctos, el de las Dominicas es de este mismo cuerpo y letra y esta aqui en Silos'.
Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, last Abbot of Silos (1790-1875): he hid some of the books in the neighbouring villages and kept some in his personal archive after the dissolution of the monastery in 1835, when the archives were transferred to the provincial library at Burgos.
The Benedictine abbey of San Martin de Madrid, a dependency of Silos: the personal archive of Echevarria was entrusted to them on his death in 1875 (see Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye (1897). In 1877, 69 manuscripts and incunabula including the present manuscript were sold to a Madrid bookseller for 16000 pesetas (see Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination' (1990), pp. 27-29).
Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris: in their sale of 55 manuscripts from the library at Silos on 1 June, 1878, lot 18 bought from them by Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, with the companion volume, Add MS 30845 for 1,700 francs, together with 12 other Silos manuscripts.
Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought from them by the British Museum (a note on f. [i] recto).
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 119-20.
D. J. Martial Blesse, 'Histoire d'un dépot littéraire', Revue Bénédictine, 4 (1897), 210-25.
F. Cabrol, H. Leclerq and M. Férotin, Le Liber Mozárabicus Sacramentorum et les Manuscrits Mozarabes, Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica, 6 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912), cols. 804-20.
Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum, 2 vols (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), nos 35, 325, 537, 543, 639, 641, 642, 655.
Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta and Constancio del Alamo, ‘Fragmento de un salterio visigótico con notación musical’ in Revista de Musicología, 2.1 (1979), pp. 9-18.
Clyde W. Brockett, Antiphons, Responsories, and Other Chants of the Mozarabic Rite, Musicological Studies, 15 (New York: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1968), no. 9, pp. 35, 36.
Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Codices visigoticos en la monarquia leonesa (Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro C.S.I.C., 1983), pp. 402-04, 421.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, p. 19*.
Michelle Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 15.
Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries), (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 237-39.
Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouvelle série, 3 (1992), 59-102, pp. 70, 93.
Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain, (London: British Library, 1998), p. 259, passim.
Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, pp. 85-86 ; II: Album, no. 109.
Soledad de Silva y Verastegui, 'La miniatura en los códices de Silos' in Silos. un Mileno: Actos del Congreso Internacional sobre la Abádia de Santo Comingo de Silos, ed. by José A Fernández Flóres, 4 vols (Burgos: University of Burgos, 2003), IV, Arte, p. 223.
Hispania Vetus: Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th-12th Centuries), ed. by Susana Zapke (Bilbao: BBVA Foundation, 2007), pp. 298-99.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)