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- Record Id:
- 040-002022575
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001396.0x0001cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30854
- Title:
- Pope Gregory, Dialogi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Dialogi (Dialogues), Books I-IV, with the rubric, 'Liber dialogorum beati Gregorii Romensis episcopi, quem Petro diacono interrogante disseruit', ending at Book IV, ch. 24.
ff. 1r-3r: List of chapters.
ff. 3r-50r: Book 1.
ff. 50r-96v: Book 2.
ff. 97r-160r: Book 3.
ff. 160r-182v: Book 4 (imperfect).
Copied by two scribes: 1st scribe, ff. 1-96, 2nd scribe, ff. 97-182 (see Boylan, 'Manuscript Illumination' p. 258).
Decoration: Decorated initials, some with interlace or knot patterns (e.g., f. 97r, 103v), outlined in red with orange under-drawing and filled in yellow, blue, green or purple. Display capitals in red and blue (f. 3r) or red and brown (f. 50r) at the beginning of books. Rubrics in orange (up to f. 118v) or red (f. 119 to end) or blue (f. 3r). An outline drawing of a bearded figure (f. 77v), pen trials and notes added in the margins (e.g., f. 44v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022564
040-002022575 - Is part of:
- Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain
Add MS 30854 : Pope Gregory, Dialogi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002022564[0011]/040-002022575
- Container:
- 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:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 165 mm (text space: 185 x 110/20 mm).
Foliation: ff. 182 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Visigothic minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Burgos (?Santo Domingo de Silos), northern Spain.
Provenance:
The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos: in two 13th century lists of manuscripts, one list inserted on a blank leaf in an Etymologies manuscript, now Paris, BnF, n.a.l. 2169, f. 16v; the other list inserted on a display folio, now part of Paris, BnF n.a.l. 235, f. B.
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 34; bought from them for 180 francs by Bernard Quaritch with 12 other Silos manuscripts.
Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought from them by the British Museum on 15 June, 1878 (a note on f.[i] r).
- 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. 121.
D. Marius Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1897), p. 269.
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. 317-18.
Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries), (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 257-59.
Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouvelle série, 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp. 83, 87).
Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), no. 118.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gregory I, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great', c 540-604,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451132,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667 - Related Material:
- From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1882):
'Liber dialogorum beati Gregorii Romensis episcopi, quem Petro diacono interrogante disseruit', Imperfect, ending in Bk. iv. ch. 24. Vellum f. 182. In Visigothic characters, with coloured initials. Xth cent. Small Quarto.'