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Add MS 30849
- Record Id:
- 040-002022570
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001396.0x0001ca
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30849
- Title:
- A Breviary of the Roman liturgy with calendar and musical notation
- Scope & Content:
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A Breviary of the Roman liturgy in which the format is Canonical rather than Monastic, as each office consists of 3 or 9 rather than 12 readings. The text is imperfect, beginning in the middle of the service for the first Sunday in Advent. The calendar and the last two quires (ff. 294-308) are copied in a later hand by a different scribe, who also annotated ff. 84, 88 and 275, and they contain musical notation (see (Vezin, 'El codice British Library', 2003).
Contents:
ff. 2r-4v: A Calendar of the twelfth century containing important Benedictine feasts and with some feast days from the Mozarabic liturgy.
ff. 5r-308v: Breviary with feasts of 56 saints.
ff. 310r-v: Index of 1772.
Decoration:
One large inhabited initial ‘P’(erdominica) in brown containing a man in profile with his foot in the mouth of alion-like creature, stabbing a spiralling dragon through the head (f. 1r).Initials in red or brown, some with decoration or with highlighting in blueand/or yellow. Musical notation in brownwith some red (ff. 84r, 232r, 273r,276v, 294r-308v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022564
040-002022570 - Is part of:
- Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain
Add MS 30849 : A Breviary of the Roman liturgy with calendar and musical notation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002022564[0006]/040-002022570
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 30844-30857
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1086
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 11th-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 205 mm, with some pages cropped to 280mm (text space: 230/45 x 140 mm) written in two columns (with the exception offf.143-182 and ff. 232-239).
Foliation: ff. 310 (ff. 309 and 310 areadded leaves + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at theend).
Script: Caroline minuscule with someVisigothic letters.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather overwooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Catalunya, Spain
Provenance:
A note on f. 232r with the date of 1086.
A calendar (ff. 1r-4v) and the last two quires (ff. 294-308) copied in a hand of the 12th, century that also added notes on ff. 84, 88 and 275 (see Vezin, ‘British Library Add. 30849’ (2003), p. 217).
The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos; an index added and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernández in 1772 (Boylan, ‘The Library’ p. 92, no. 31).
Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, last Abbot of Silos (1790-1875) hid some of the books in the neighbouring villages and kept some with his personal archive after the dissolution of the monastery in 1835, when the archives were transferred to the provincial library at Burgos, according to Férotin, (Histoire de l'Abbaye (1897)).
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 25.
Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought by them for 500 francs; purchased from Quaritch by the British Museum, 15 June 1878 (a note on f. [i] recto).
- 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. 120.
D. Marius Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1897), no. 42, p. 272.
Meyer Schapiro, 'From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silo', Art Bulletin, 21 (1939), 313-374 (p. 363, 368 n. 196).
A. Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouv. sér.,3 (1992), 59-102 ( pp. 75, n. 120, 94).
Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain, (London: British Library, 1998), pp.48 -51,
Jean Vezin, 'El Códice British Library Add. 30849 y la Introducción de la Carolina en España' in Silos. Un Milenio: Actos del Congreso Internacional sobre la Abadía de Santo Domingo de Silos, ed. by José A Fernández Flóres, 4 vols (Burgos: University of Burgos, 2003), II, pp. 211-22.
Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy, Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants. Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013), p. 324.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1882):
‘MOZARABIC BREVIARY for the year; preceded by a calendar. Latin. Imperfect, beginning in the middle of the service for the first Sunday in Advent. The musical notation is found only in the last two quires. Vellum; ff. 308. xiith cent. Folio’.