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Add MS 24199
- Record Id:
- 040-002031484
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031475
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000117.0x000306
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060426205.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24199
- Title:
- Azo, Commentary on Justinian’s Codex; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Various poems, including poems by Hildebert of Lavardin and Marbode of Rennes
- Scope & Content:
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This codex includes:
ff. 1r-v: fragment of Azo's Commentary on Justinian's Codex, copied in the 14th century;
ff. 2r-38v: a glossed copy of Prudentius' Psychomachia, illustrated with line drawings. This was copied in England in the late 10th and early11th century;
ff. 39-89v: verses by Hildebert of Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, Marbode, Bishop of Renes, and others (possibly including Heloise or another female poet), copied in the 12th century in England, possibly at Bury St Edmunds;
ff. 90r-91v: the Sanctus with musical notation, copied in the 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031475
040-002031484 - Is part of:
- Add MS 24191-24202 : St. Martin in the Fields Manuscripts
Add MS 24199 : Azo, Commentary on Justinian’s Codex; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Various poems, including poems by Hildebert of Lavardin and Marbode… - Contains:
- Add MS 24199, ff 1r-v : Fragment of Portius Azo's Commentary on Justinian's Codex
Add MS 24199, ff 2r-38v : Prudentius, Psychomachia
Add MS 24199, ff 39r-89v : Collection of Verses by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbode of Rennes, and others
Add MS 24199, ff 90r-91v : Sanctus with musical notation
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 24199 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002031475[0009]/040-002031484
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 24191-24202
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060426205.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 10th century-16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 320 x 240 mm (folios 320 x 225 mm).
Foliation: ff. 91 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: the pressmark 'P.123' (f. 2).
Notes in a hand of the 16th century, including 'Videtur hoc carmen scriptum in laudem Mariae et Philippi' (f. 76).
Thomas Tenison (b. 1636, d. 1715), archbishop of Canterbury: his sale, Sotheby's, 1 July 1861, lot 74; bought by the British Museum (inscription on f. [ii]).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1877), II, p. 21.
Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 4.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)