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Record Id:

040-002022571

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002022564

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Add MS 30850

Title:

Antiphonal of the Roman Liturgy, including the office for Abbot Santo Domingo of Silos

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Leaves from a liturgical work with the text erased and the Dedication Rite for a church written over this.

ff. 5r-222v: Antiphonary, imperfect: the offices of the latter part of September and the beginning of October are missing (one quire is perhaps lacking after f. 170).

ff. 223r-226v: Office of Santo Domingo.

ff. 227r-234v: Offices of other saints.

ff. 235r-241v: Tonal with parts of the Office of Martin written over.

The texts date from the period when the Spanish liturgy had been replaced by the Franco-Roman rite.The musical neumes are Visigothic and the melodies are from the Gregorian repertoire.

Decoration:

23 large initials with zoomorphic, interlace and foliate decoration and display capitals in red and brown, some with blue or yellow (ff. 6r, 6v, 22v, 31v, 51v, 63r, 76v, 80r, 89v, 93r, 105v, 123v, 127r, 129v, 132v, 145r, 158r, 161v, 168r (unfinished), 171v, 186r, 188v, 206v).

Initials with penwork decoration in colours, some with zoomorphic elements (e.g., f. 101v, 112r).

Display capitals in brown and red or brown and blue.

Numerous small initials in red, brown or blue. Spaces left for initials.

Musical notation.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002022564
040-002022571

Is part of:

Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain

Add MS 30850 : Antiphonal of the Roman Liturgy, including the office for Abbot Santo Domingo of Silos

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032-002022564[0007]/040-002022571

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper (ff. 242-243 only).

Dimensions: 330 x 245 mm (text space: 240 x 170/5 mm), written in one column.

Foliation: ff. 243 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Visigothic minuscule.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Silos, Northern Spain.

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, contains the office of Santo Domingo, Abbot of Silos (r. 1041-1073), who was cannonised in 1076 (ff. 223-26); kept in cupboard no 8: labelled 'Cajon 8' on f. 6, in the catalogue compiled by Ibarette in 1770; with a table of contents added (ff. 242-243) and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992)).

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 it 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 16 000 pesetas to raise money for the rebuilding of the Benedictine Abbey of Silos (see Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination' ( 1990), pp. 27-29).

Bachelin-Deflorenne, Parisian booksellers, in their sale of 55 manuscripts and 14 incunabula from the library at Silos,1 June, 1878, lot 17.

Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought for 1750 francs, together with 13 other Silos manuscripts; purchased by the British Museum, 15 June 1878: a note on (f [vi] recto).

Information About Copies:

Antiphonale silense: British Library Ms. Add. 30.850, ed. by Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología, 1985) [Facsimile].

Select digital coverage, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

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: Léroux,1897), pp. 276-77.

D. J. Martial Blesse, 'Histoire d'un dépot littéraire', Revue Bénédictine, 4 (1897), 210-25.

Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de livres rares et de manuscrits du Ixe au XVIIIe siècle (1878), pl. 6.

Initials and miniatures of the IXth, Xth and XIth centuries, from the Mozarabic Manuscripts of Santo Domingo de Silos in the British Museum, ed. by Archer Milton Huntington (New York: n.p., 1904).

Meyer Schapiro, 'From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos', Art Bulletin, 21 (1939), 313-74 (p. 368 n. 197).

Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta, ‘Notas paleograficas al antifonario silence del Museo Britanico (Mss Add. 30,850)’, Homenaje a fray Justo Perez de Urbel 1, Studia Silensia, 3 (Burgos: University of Burgos-Abadia de Silos, 1976), 233-56.

François Avril and others, Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule ibérique (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1982), pp. 19, 24.

Antiphonale silense: British Library Ms. Add. 30.850, ed. by Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología, 1985) [Facsimile].

Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries)', (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 127, 247-50,

Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouvelle série, 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp 69, 71, 72, 90, 92).

Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain, (London: British Library, 1998), p. 79.

Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, p. 87; II: Album, no. 114.

Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 49-50.

José Manuel Ruiz Asencio, 'Codices Pirenaicos y Riojanos en la Biblioteca de Silos en el Siglo XI' 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. 177-210 (p. 193).

Ann Boylan, 'The Silos Beatus and the Silos Scriptorium, in Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams, ed. by Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 26 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 173-233 (p. 178).

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. 278-79.

Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy, Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants. Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 315, 317, 322, 324.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1882):

'MOZARABiC ANTIPHONAL for the year, with musical notation throughout. Latin. Vellum; ff. 241. In Visigothic characters, finely written, with large coloured initials of interlaced and other patterns. xith cent. Quarto.'