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Title:

Homiliary and Penitential with Latin and Spanish glosses

Scope & Content:

A Homiliary and Penitential from theMonastery of Santo Domingo de Silos in northern Spain. The content and languageof the glosses in the Penitential indicate that it was copied from an originalproduced in the twin monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla (now in la Rioja),and may have been partially copied there.

ff. 1r-v: A paper leaf with a list of contents in an 18th-century hand.

ff. 2r-308v: Homiliary, with musical notation added in the margins in the 12th century (ff. 175v, 222v and 261r); considered the most important collection of homilies from the Spanish liturgy of the Visigothic period, sometimes known as the 'Toledo Homiliary'.

ff. 309r-324v: Penitential, with glosses in Latin and in an early form of Spanish, beginning with a table of family relationships in the male and female line and followed by the rubric in capitals, 'Incipiunt capitulationes penitentiarum de diversis criminibus'. The names of four saints most-venerated at Silos have been added in a 12th-century hand among the list of sins at the beginning: 'Dominicus beatus, beatus Sebastianus, beata Maria, sanctus Martinus' (f. 309v). The sermons and letters include a letter purporting to be from Jesus Christ to Pedro, Bishop of Nimes (r.1080-1090), beginning, 'Incipit epistola sancti Salvatoris que directa sancti domino et inuenta est super altare sancti Bauduli [Baudelii] in eivitate Nimaso' (ff. 231r-232v).

Decoration:

Four large initials with decoration in green, yellow or black (ff. 167v, 261v, 267v, 272v). Initials in red or brown with human figures (ff. 44v, 112v, 273r), zoomorphic decoration including a horse and a dog being bitten by a snake on the nose (ff. 8v, 17v) and fish. Initials with foliate and interlace decoration in red or colours at the beginning of each homily or sermon. A table with interlace decoration in brown or red (f. 309r). Initials, numbers and rubrics in red.

Copied and illuminated by a number of scribes and artists (see Boylan,'Manuscript Illumination', 1990).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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032-002022564
040-002022574

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

Add MS 30853 : Homiliary and Penitential with Latin and Spanish glosses

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032-002022564[0010]/040-002022574

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Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin
Spanish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

11th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 280 x 190 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 324 (+ 4 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation: 41 quires of 8 folios with some folios lacking (see Gomez (1996), p. 163).

Script: Visigothic Minuscule.

British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin: Burgos (?Santo Domingo de Silos or San Millán de la Cogolla), northern Spain.

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos; names of saints most venerated at Silos, added in a 12th-century hand (f. 309v); kept in cupboard no 7: inscribed 'Caj 7' on f. 2; in the 13th-century book list inserted in Paris BNF nouv. Acq. lat. 2169, f. 16v (Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992) p. 81, nos 16 and 28); with a table of contents (ff. 1r-v) and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (Boylan, p. 92, no. 15).

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. [vi]).

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 121.

Liber Comicus, sive Lectionarius Missæ, quo Toletana Ecclesia ante annos mille et ducentos utebatur, ed. by D. Germanus Morin, Anecdota Maredsolana, 1 (Maresdous,1893), pp. 406-52.

Meyer Schapiro, 'From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos', Art Bulletin, 21 (1939), 313-74 (p. 344 n. 109).

D. Marius Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1897), pp. 258, 271.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), nos. 323, 324, 327, 535.

François Avril and others, Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule ibérique (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1982), p. 23.

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. 274, 317, 405.

Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries)', (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 253-57.

Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, new series, 3 (1992), 59-102, (pp. 81, 92).

Miguel C. Vivancos Gómez, Glosas y notas marginales de los manuscritos visigóticos del Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos, Studia Silensia, 19 (Silos: Abadía de Santo Domingo, 1995), pp. 55, 163-84.

Miguel C. Vivancos Gómez, El Scriptorium Silense y los Origines de la Lengua Castellana (Junta de Castilla y León, 1995), pp. xxx, 4, 5 [exhibition catalogue].

Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain, (London: British Library, 1998), p. 88.

Agustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, pp. 88-89, II: Album, no. 117.

Jose 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, Historia, p. 191.

Soledad de Silva y Verastegui, 'La miniatura en los códices de Silos' 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), IV, Arte, pp. 211-54 (pp. 239-40).

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).

Joseph B. Solodow, Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 312-19.

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. 51, 55.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian, bookseller and publisher, 1819-1899

Places:

Nîmes, France

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions, 'Homilies for the year and for particular occasions, from St. Augustine and others. Latin. Included also are:-

1. " Epistola beati Clementis episcopi directa sancto Iacobo episcopo Ihrosolime": a passage, " cauere et anteuenire--uite premia peruenire," from the first of the " Epistolæ decretales (Migne, Patrologia Græca, vol. i., coll. 466 D-468 C). f. 222 b.

2. " Incipit epistola sancti Saluatoris que directa cat a domino et inuenta est super altare sancti Bauduli [Baudelii] in eiuitate Nimaso [Nîmes]," beg. " Amen dico uobis, quia misi super populum brucos et locustas." Cf. Baluze, Capitularia regum Francorum, Paris, 1677, vol. ii., col. 1396; and Amaduzzi, Anecdota Litteraria, Ronle, 1773, vol. i., p. 61. The genuineness of the letter is attested by "Petrus episcopus de ciuitate Nimaso"; but the first bishop of Nîmes of this name appears to have been Pierre Ermengaud, circ. 1080-1095. f. 231.

3. " Incipiunt capitulationes penitentiarum de diuersis criminibus a penitential, beg. " i. de ebrietate uel cuomitum (sic). Si quis Episcopus aut aliquis ordinatus ebrietatis uitium habuei.it." Imperfect, about half the number of chapters being missing. See Berganza, Antiguedades de España, Madrid, 1719-1721,vol. ii, p. 666. f. 309.

Vellum; ff. 324. In Visigothic characters, with delicately drawn coloured initials. xith cent. Small Folio.'