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Arundel MS 85
- Record Id:
- 040-002039366
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000254
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 85
- Title:
- Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (pars II)
- Scope & Content:
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This is the second volume of a four-volume set; the others are Arundel 103, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 462; the fourth volume is missing.
Contents:
ff. 1r-170v: Ludolphus de Saxonia (index Ludolf of Saxony), Vita Christi (pars II).
Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 1r). Small initials in plain red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039366 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 85 : Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (pars II) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0086]/040-002039366
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 355 x 260 mm (275 x 205 mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 170 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany, S. (Eberbach)
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Eberbach (today Erbach near Eltville, diocese of Mainz), 15th century: mentioned in the catalogue of the library of 1502 as 'K 7' (see Palmer 1998, p. 244).
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician: purchased in 1636 in Germany, with other manuscripts confiscated from religious houses during the 30 years war.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.6.3’, f. ii).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Germany.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 23.
Ambrosius Schneider, 'Deutsche und französische Cistercienser-Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken', Cistercienserchronik, 61/62 (1962), 43-54 (pp. 43-44, 53).
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: Die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der in Oxford und London aufbewahrten Handschriften (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1998), pp. 128-131, 244, 281f., col. pl. 108.
Jeffrey Hamburger and Nigel Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, p. 440.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ludolphus, Saxo, Prior Carthusianorum Argentinensium; obiit anno circiter 1370
- Related Material:
- From the Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum ( 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 23:
'Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 170, sec. fortassis xiv. exeuntis. Ludolphi de Saxonia ordinis Carthusiensis Vita Jesu Christi: pars scunda, in 86 capitula divisa, quorum primum "De confessione veræ fidei quam Petrus fecit pro omnibus;" ultinium "De ventilatione areae et extremo judicio" inscriptum est.
Ludolphus, Saxo, Prior Carthusianorum Argentinensium; obiit anno circiter 1370: Vita Jesu Christi, pars secunda.: Sec. xiii.'
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Arundel MS 103