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Arundel MS 35
- Record Id:
- 040-002039315
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000221
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153477.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 35
- Title:
- William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-153v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum (imperfect). This is the earliest version of the text, composed c. 1130. It lacks the dedicatory letter and ends mid-sentence in the description of Henry I, at 'anglia proposita. Curalibus suis' (f. 153v). The text in Additional MS 23147 is believed to have been copied from this manuscript (Winterbottom, Gesta Regum (1998), pp. xv-xvi).
Decoration:
1 large red initial with green, red, blue, and brown foliate decoration (f. 1r). 6 large initials in red (often oxidised) or green, mostly simple, but some with decoration in the other colour or also with yellow (ff. 1v, 10v, 31v, 32r, 86r, 111r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039315 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 35 : William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0035]/040-002039315
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153477.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 185mm (written space: 230 x 135mm).
Layout: Written in two columns of 37 lines.
Foliation: ff. 153 (+1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation: i-ii8 (ff. 1-16), iii-xii10 (ff. 17-116), xiii8 (ff. 117-124), xiv10 (ff. 125-134), xv8 (ff. 135-142), remainder unclear (ff. 142-153).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (Winchester?).
Provenance:
?Winchester cathedral or Hyde abbey: personal names are often written in capitals in the text, but that of St Swithun (f. 73r) is enlarged, and 'GRIMBALDU(M) patronu(m) eccl(esi)e' (f. 41r) is in darker ink (over an erasure?); added marginal notes include 'Alfredus fundator Hyde' (f. 42r, lower margin); Dackomb (see below) had a number of manuscripts from Winchester.
Thomas Dackomb b. 1496, d. c.1572), rector of St Peter Colebrook, Winchester, and later vicar of Nutley, in the same diocese: erased inscription (f. 1r) (see Watson, 'Thomas Dackomb', 1963).
?Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician. Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: their ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1r); bought by the British Museum from them together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 8.
Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi, De gesta regum Anglorum, ed. by William Stubbs, 2 vols, Rolls Series, 90 (London: Rolls Commission, 1887-1888), I, pp. lxvi-lxvii (as 'Al 1').
Andrew G. Watson, ‘A Sixteenth-century Collector: Thomas Dackomb, 1496-c. 1572’, The Library, 18 (1963), 204-17 (p. 212, no. 4).
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum , ed. and trans. by R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, and M. Winterbottom, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998-9), I, p. xv (this manuscript as A1).
Allen Brent, Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the third century A communities in tension before the emergence of a monarch-bishop (Leiden Brill, 1995), p. 23, n. 51.Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2004), pp. III, 212.
- Exhibitions:
- The Wonders of Rome from a Northern Perspective: From Antiquity to the Present, Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn, 31 March 2017 - 13 August 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)