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Arundel MS 103
- Record Id:
- 040-002039384
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000266
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 103
- Title:
- Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)
- Scope & Content:
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This is the first volume of a four-volume set; the others are Arundel 85, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 462, the fourth volume is missing.
Contents:
ff. Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi, Chapters 1-60.
Decoration:
Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in red with blue and purple with red (f. 3). Three-sided border with penwork decoration, in red, blue and purple, with small circular decorations, at the beginning of the prologue (f. 4). Large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red, with decorated extensions in red and blue, at the beginning of the prologue and the text (ff. 4, 7v). 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of the preface (f. 2). 2 penwork initials with human figures for the beginning of the table of contents and the explicit (f. 1v, 201). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple pen-flourishing. Small initials (1 line) in plain red. Holes in the parchment encircled in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039384 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 103 : Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (chapters 1-60) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0104]/040-002039384
- 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:
- 1413
- End Date:
- 1413
- Date Range:
- 1413
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 325 x 220 mm (245 x 155 mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 201 (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Dated 1962.
- 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), 1413: 'Nota q(uod) anno domini Millesimo Quadringentesimo tercio decimo. Ipso die sanctor(um) martir(um) Nerei achillei atque pancracij procurante venerabili in (christ)o patre ac domno domno Arnoldo abbate Monaste(r)ij Ebirbace(n)s(is) [name and function given in red]. Septimodecimo Scriptus ac completus est liber iste a fratre, Nycolao de erbach sacerdote et monacho loci prefati professo… (f. 201); 'Liber sancte marie v(ir)gi(ni)s in monaste(r)io Eberbacensi', inscribed in a circular design, with decoration in the same hand as that of the coloured initials (f. 3r).
A member of the Rotenhan family of Bamberg: with their arms (f. 4r); the relationship of this family to Eberbach is unclear (see Palmer 1998, p. 131).
Inscribed 'Z 133', in a 17th(?)-century hand (f. 1r); similar inscriptions consisting of a 'Z' followed by a number are found in a significant number of manuscripts from the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach and the Carthusian abbey of Mainz.
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. 4v; its book-plate inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: 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. 27.
[C. H. Talbot], 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Coisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 210).
Ambrosius Schneider, 'Deutsche und französische Cistercienser-Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken', Cistercienserchronik, 61/62 (1962), 43-54 (p. 53 no. 65).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 440, II, pl. 335.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), I, 175.
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, 282, 295, col. pls 1, 106-107.
Jeffrey Hamburger and Nigel Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, pp. 440, 549. - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 1225-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453792101
Arnoldus, Abbas Monasterii Eberbacensis decimus septimus, anno 1413
Ludolphus, Saxo, Prior Carthusianorum Argentinensium; obiit anno circiter 1370
Monasterium S. Mariae, Eberbach
Nicolaus de Erbach - Related Material:
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From the Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series (1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 27:
'Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 201, scriptus anno 1413 in usum Monasterri Sanctæ Mariæ Virginis Eberbacensis. Ludolphi de Saxonia ordinis Carthusiensis Vita Jesu Christi. Pars prima. Præfigitur 1. Tabula Capitulorum. fol. 1. b.
2. Quædam de modis, quibus exponitur Særa Scriptura secundum Thomam de Aquino. fol. 2. Ad calcem codicis hwe leguntur, "Nota quod anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tertio decimo, ipso die sanctorum martirum Nerei, Achiillei atque Pancracii, procurante venerabili in Christo patre ac domino, domino Arnoldo, abbate Monasterii Ebirbacensis septimo decimo, scriptus ac conipletus est liber iste a fratre Nycolao de Erbach, sacerdote et monacho loci prefati professo."
Nicolaus de Erbach: descripsit: anno 1413.
Ludolphus, Saxo, Prior Carthusianorum Argentinensium; obiit anno circiter 1370: Vita Jesu Christi, pars prima.: Sec. xv.
Eberbach, Monasterium S. Mariae ibidem: Possedit olim codices.
Arnoldus, Abbas Monasterii Eberbacensis decimus septimus, anno 1413: citatur in codice.
includes:
- f. 2 Saint Thomas Aquinas: Quaedam de modis, quibus exponitur Sacra Scriptura secundum Thomam de Aquino.: Sec. xv.'
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Arundel MS 85