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Arundel MS 146
- Record Id:
- 040-002039429
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0002a2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153197.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 146
- Title:
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The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the text of a set of additions to the rules compiled for the sisters of the Brigittine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, founded by King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) in 1415.
Other surviving versions of the Additions to the Rule include: London, Guildhall Library, MS 25524 (in Middle English, for the brethren of the community); Cambridge, St John's College, MS 11 (a fragmentary Latin text for the brethren); and a post-medieval Latin version produced in Lisbon in 1607, after the dissolution of Syon Abbey and the expulsion of its community in 1539.
For an edition and diplomatic transcription of the text, see James Hogg, ed., The Rewyll of Seynt Sauioure (1980), IV: The Syon Additions for the Sisters from the British Library MS. Arundel 146.
Contents:
ff. 1r-104v: The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour, imperfect, written in Middle English and arranged in 28 chapters, the first and last chapters wanting.
ff. 1r and 104v are badly effaced and the text barely legible.
Decoration:
Initials in red and black ink. Chapter headings, rubrics, numbers and indications for different sections in red.
A pen-and-ink sketch of a cross on an altar (f. 46v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039429 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 146 : The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0147]/040-002039429
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153197.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 225 mm (written space: 210 x 140 mm), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. i + 104 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end); f. i is a bookplate affixed to f. [ii] recto.
Collation: Gatherings of 8.
An inscribed parchment fragment used as a tab, sewn to f. 1v. Stitches of coloured thread in the right-hand margins of some folios, probably used to hold textile book-tabs (ff. 17, 47, 72, 73, 78, 93).
Script: Gothic, written by a single scribe whose hand can also be seen in some of the nuns service books that survive from the Syon Abbey library (see Hogg, ed., The Rewyll of Seynt Sauioure (1980), IV, p. v),
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half-leather binding, with the Arundel arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Rebound 1951.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, Isleworth, Middlesex, founded by King Henry V in 1415: written for the sisters of the abbey's community.
? 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 (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1r); its bookplate (f. i recto)and pencil inscription, ‘XV.6.3’ (f. [ii] recto).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- 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. 38.
George James Aungier, The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery, The Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow, compiled from Public Records, Ancient Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents (London: J. B. Nichols & Son, 1840), pp. 249-404 [edition].
Veronica R. Hughes, 'Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour', Unpublished MA dissertation (Liverpool: Liverpool University, 1952).
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. 185.
N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Vol 1: London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 244.
The Rewyll of Seynt Savioure and other Middle English Brigittine legislative texts, ed. by James Hogg, 4 vols (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1980), IV: The Syon Additions for the Sisters from the British Library MS. Arundel 146 [edition].
Mary Carpenter Erler, 'Syon Abbey's Care for Books: its Sacristan's Account Rolls 1506/7-1535/6', Scriptorium, 39:2 (1985), 293-307 (p. 294 n. 6).
Syon Abbey: The Library of the Bridgettine Nuns and Their Peregrinations After the Reformation, ed. by Christopher de Hamel (London: Roxburghe Club, 1991), pp. 71, 104, 119.
Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literature Practice in Late Medieval England (London: Cornell University Press, 2002), p. 153.
Vincent Gillespie, 'Hid Diuinite': The Spirituality of the English Syon Brethren', in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII, Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2004, ed. by E. A. Jones(Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013), pp. 189-206 (p. 194 n. 16).
Michael Leahy, ''To speke of phisik': medical discourse in late medieval English culture', Unpublished PhD dissertation (London: Birkbeck, University of London, 2015), pp. 204-06, 211.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)