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Arundel MS 217
- Record Id:
- 040-002039500
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000309
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059143814.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 217
- Title:
- St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena Cypriani
- Scope & Content:
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This volume preserves a large number of St Cyprian (b. c. 200 d. c. 258)'s Epistulae (Letters) and other works, as well as two anonymous tracts associated with Cyprian's name, the 3rd-century sermon De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion (On the Two Mountains of Sinai and Sion) and Adversus Judaeos (Against the Jews ). This is also one of the earliest manuscripts to include Hrabanus Maurus (b. c. 784 d. c. 856)'s revision of the late fourth-century work known as Cena Cypriani (Feast of Cyprian).
Contents:
ff. 2r-21v: Cyprian, Epistulae, beginning: ‘Ciprianus presbiteris et diaconibus fratribus salutem. Quales litteras ad Clerum Romae agentem fecerim’.
ff. 21v-28v: Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion, beginning: ‘Probatio capitulorum que in scripturis deificis continentur que in veteri testamento’.
ff. 28v-34v: Cyprian, Letter 1, beginning: ‘Bene admones Donate karissime nam et promisisse’.
ff. 34v-43v: Cyprian, De Habitu Virginum (About the Demeanor of Virgins), beginning: ‘Disciplina custos spei retinaculum fidei’.
ff. 43v-56r: Cyprian, De Lapsis (About those Fallen from Faith), beginning: ‘Pax ecce dilectissimi fratres’.
ff. 56r-66v: Cyprian, De Unitate Ecclesiae (About the Unity of the Church), beginning: ‘Cum moneat Dominus et dicat vos estis sal terre’.
ff. 66v-77v: Cyprian, De Oratione Dominica (About the Lord's Prayer), beginning: ‘Ewangelica precepta fratres dilectissimi’.
ff. 77v-85v: Cyprian, De Mortalitate (About Mortality), beginning: ‘Et si apud plurimus vestrum’.
ff. 85v-95r: Cyprian, De Opere et Eleemosynis (About Works and Alms), beginning: ‘Multa et magna sunt fratres’.
ff. 95r-104r: Cyprian, Ad Demetrianum (To Demetrianus), beginning: ‘Oblatrantem te et adversus Deum’.
ff. 104r-112r: Cyprian, De Patientia (About Patience), beginning: ‘De patientia locuturus fratres dilectissimi’.
ff. 112r-117v: Cyprian, De Zelo et Livore (About Zeal and Envy), beginning: ‘Zelare quod boni videas et invidere’.
ff. 117v-128v: Cyprian, Ad Fortunatum (To Fortunatum), beginning: ‘Desiderasti, Fortunate carissime ut quoniam’.
ff. 128v-135v: Cyprian, Adversus Judaeos, beginning: ‘Ciprianus Quirino filio salute obtemperandum’ (lacking books 2 and 3).
ff. 135v-139r: Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena (About Cyprian's The Lord's Supper), a revision of Cena Cypriani (Cyprian's work on the Lord's Supper), beginning: ‘Domino excellentissimo regi Lothario ultimus vestre solempnitatis alumpnus Maurus salutem’.
[f. 139v is blank].
Decoration:
One large initial in red with foliate penwork decoration (f. 2r). Numerous large initials in yellow, green. Small initials in brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039500 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 217 : St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0218]/040-002039500
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059143814.0x000001
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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: 250 x 160 mm (text space: 185 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 139 (+ 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchement flyleaf and 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 4 unfoliated paper stubs between f. 17 and f. 18; f. 26 and f. 27; f. 128 and f. 129; f. 136 and f. 137; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 9 and f. 10; f. 24 and f. 25; f. 38 and f. 39.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Fountains, Northern England.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Fountains (Yorkshire), founded in 1132: its name inscribed in a 12th-century hand (f. 1v): 'Liber Sancte Mariae de Fontibus'; its pressmark 'C XIII' inscribed in red capitals (f. 1r). A manuscript from Clongowes Wood College, Ireland (missing shelfmark), also from Fountains Abbey, contains the pressmark ‘C XI’ in the same hand.
Johannes Young: his name inscribed in a 16th-century hand (f. 1r): 'frater Ihoannes Yong'. In another manuscript from Fountains Abbey, (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius MS 126), Young describes himself as a monk from Fountains: 'eiusdem loci quondam monachum'; a table of contents added in a 12th- or 13th-century hand, with additions, probably by Johannes Young (f. 1r). The additions seem to include works lacking from the volume.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 14th earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician: likely ownership on the basis that this volume was passed to his son Henry Howard.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented the manuscript to the Royal Society in 1667: his name inscribed on f. 2r: ‘ex dono Henr. HOWARD Norfolciensis’.
The Royal Society, London: its bookplate and ink stamp.(f [iii] Recto)
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), Part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 61.
Maurice Bévenot, The Tradition of Manuscripts: A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprian’s Treatises (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), p. 11 (no. 250).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 88.
Anne Lawrence, ‘English Cistercian Manuscripts of the Twelfth Century’, in Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. by Christopher Norton and David Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 284-98 (pp. 295-97, pl. 186).
Christine Modesto, Studien zur Cena Cypriani und zu deren Rezeption, Classica Monacensia, 3 (Tübingen: Narr, 1992), pp. 14-35.
Anne Lawrence, ‘The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts’, in Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: Boydell , 1994), pp. 451-69 (p. 462).
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 209, 210 (n. 69).
Lucie Doležalová, Reception and its Varieties. Reading, Re-Writing and Understanding Cena Cypriani in the Middle Ages (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007), pp. 65, 188.
- 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.