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- Record Id:
- 040-002031478
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031475
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000117.0x000300
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055990750.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24193
- Title:
- Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the collection of poems (Carmina) of Venantius Fortunatus (d. after 600), bishop of Poitiers, with accompanying letters including his two acrostic figure-poems. Two flyleaves originally belonging to this volume were removed after the 12th century and are now Columbia, University of Missouri Library, F. M. 1 and F. M. 2 (see Voigts, ‘A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscripts’ (1988) p. 83).
Contents:
ff. 2r-158v: Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina (Poems) with accompanying letters in eleven books, beginning: ‘Domino sancto et dote meritorum sacris altaribus’ preceded by the prefatory letter to Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604) [ff. 2r-3r] and a table of contents [ff. 3v-5v].
ff. 158v-159r: Anonymous poem, beginning: ‘Felicis patriae praeconanda fertilitas’.
[f. 159v is blank].
Decoration:
Two brown and red rectilinear acrostic figure-poems (ff. 19r, 30r), of which one (f. 30r) bears a titulus forming a tympanum decorated with a cross. One large simple red initial (f. 2r). Large red initials, mostly oxidised. Some large black capitals. Red oxidised capitals throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031475
040-002031478 - Is part of:
- Add MS 24191-24202 : St. Martin in the Fields Manuscripts
Add MS 24193 : Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina - Hierarchy:
- 032-002031475[0003]/040-002031478
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 24191-24202
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055990750.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 190 mm (text space: 230 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 159 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Full olive green morocco with doublures over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Orléans, Central France.
Provenance:
? A scriptorium near Orléans: suggested by the script (see Bischoff, Katalog II (2004), p. 101 (no. 2392)).
An unknown English owner: 3rd quarter of the 10th century: ff. 2r-16v, 159r-159v are replacement leaves written in two English caroline minuscule hands (see Hunt, 'Manuscript evidence' (1979), p. 279).
An unknown 11th-century owner: a marginal note added by an 11th-century scribe on f. 65r (see Hunt, ‘Manuscript evidence’ (1979), p. 280).
An unknown 12th-century owner: inscribed ‘Non dominus’ and ‘Est minimus psalmus, virtus non distulit almus’ on f. 1r.
An unknown 14th-century owner: inscription and pen trials added by a 14th-century scribe on f. 1v.
An unknown 15th-century owner: an inscription in a 15th-century script on a piece of parchment: ‘Hoc volumen continet versarium Fortunati de diversis materiis et prosaica [expositionem] dominice orationis et simboli. Precii ii s’ pasted on f. 1r.
Thomas Tenison (b. 1636, d. 1715), Archbishop of Canterbury: acquired by him or his library in London, founded in 1684; sale of his library, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1 July 1861, Lot 36; purchased by the British Museum for £78.0.0.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1877), II, p. 19.
Wilhelm Meyer, 'Über Handschriften der Gedichte Fortunat’s', in Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1908), pp. 82-114 (pp. 82-84).
Richard W. Hunt, 'Manuscript Evidence for Knowledge of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus in Late Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England, 8 (1979), 279-95 (pp. 279-80).
Linda E. Voigts, 'A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri', Anglo-Saxon England, 17 (1988), 83-92 (pp. 83, 85).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 101 (no. 2392).
Richard Gameson, 'The Material Fabric of Early British Books', in The History of the Book in Britain, I. c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 11-93, p. 64 (no. 224).
Richard Gameson, 'The Circulation of Books between England and the Continent, c. 871-c. 1100', in The History of the Book in Britain, I. c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 344-72, pp. 348 (no. 14), 350, 352-3 (no. 34).
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), p. 218 (no. 284).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.