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Arundel MS 94
- Record Id:
- 040-002039375
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00025d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059144544.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 94
- Title:
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Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and includes Josephus' De bello Iudaico (The Jewish War).
Contents:
ff. 1r-83r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae, Books 15-20. Each book is preceded by capitula, beginning: 'Tempus annorum decem et octo. Sosius quidem et Herodes qualiter Ierusolimam ceperint'. Book 15 (ff. 1r-15r), preceded by capitula (f. 1r); Book 16 (ff. 15r-26v), preceded by capitula (ff. 15v-16r); Book 17 (ff. 26v-44r), preceded by capitula (ff. 26v-26r); Book 18 (ff. 45r-61v) preceded by capitula (ff. 44r-45rr); Book 19 (ff. 61v-74r), preceded by capitula (f. 61v); Book 20 (ff. 75r-83v), preceded by capitula (ff. 74r-75r), ending: 'de Deo eiusque substantia et de legibus et cur secundum eas aliud facere permittimur aliud prohibemur. Explicit liber vicesimus'.
ff. 83v-211r: Flavius Josephus, De Bello Iudaico, in seven books, preceded by a prologue (ff. 83v-85r), beginning 'Quoniam bellum quod cum populo Romano gessere'; beginning of the text (f. 85r): 'Incipit Liber primus hystoriarum Iosephi de Bello Iudaico. Cum res Iudeorum inter se dissederent'. Book 1 (ff. 85r-114r); Book 2 (ff. 114r-137v); Book 3 (ff. 137v-151v); Book 4 (ff. 151v-159v); Book 5 (ff. 160r-168r); Book 6 (ff. 168rv-183v); Book 7 (ff. 183v-205r') ending imperfectly.
[f. 205v is blank].
Decoration:
16 large initials in red, green and yellow with arabesque decoration, for the different chapters (capitula), and for the prologue and the different books (ff. 1r, 1v, 15v, 27v, 45r, 47v, 61v, 75r, 83v, 85r, 114r, 138r, 151v, 160r, 168r, 183v). Small initials in plain red or green, sometimes with ornamental extensions into the margins. The colour-note 'R' sometimes appears next to red initials, and 'V' next to green ones.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039375 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 94 : Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0095]/040-002039375
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- 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_100059144544.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- 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: 380 x 280 mm (text space: 310 x 210 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 205 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 leaf was lacking by the 13th century (see note on f. 196r); f. 205 is a parchment fragment.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern England or Midlands.
Provenance:
? 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: inscribed with its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', (f. 1r).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London 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. 26.
Franz Blatt, The Latin Josephus, I: Introduction and Text: The Antiquities Books I-V, Acta Jutlandica, Humanistik Series, 44 (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1958), p 93 (no. 170).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- 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.