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Arundel MS 218
- Record Id:
- 040-002039501
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00030a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059144217.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 218
- Title:
- Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (excerpt); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana
- Scope & Content:
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This is one of the dozen identified manuscripts from the Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Guisborough in North Yorkshire. It includes the Speculum Gregorii (Mirror of St Gregory) by Adalbert of Metz (fl. late 10th century). The Speculum Gregorii was one of the most popular florilegia (collections of excerpts) of the Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job) by St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604). The manuscript also contains Book I of the Expositio in Cantica Canticorum (Commentary on the Song of Songs) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), and a sermon that is spuriously attributed to St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430).
Contents:
ff. 2r-127v: Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii, Books I-IV, beginning ‘Reverentissimo in Christo patri .N. [inserted name: ‘hilduino Alcwinus’] presbitero A. humillimus levitarum sempiternam in domino felicitatem’; preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-1v) and a table of contents (ff. 2v-64). The work is here attributed to Alcuin of York (Pseudo-Alcuin) by an annotator.
f. 128r: St Gregroy the Great, Moralia in Job, excerpt (about obedience), beginning ‘Quia nonnunquam nobis huius mundi prospera’.
ff. 128r-136r: Bede, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum, Book I.
ff. 136r-141v: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana (Sermon on Christian Discipline), beginning ‘Locutus est ad nos sermo domini’.
The manuscript contains additions:
f. 1v: A list of contents and note about Alcuin of York, added in a 13th-century script.
[f. 1r is blank].
Decoration:
Small and large initials in red (some oxidized) or green, sometimes with foliate or geometric pen-work decoration in the same and/or the other colour (e.g., ff. 2r, 6r, 7v); some with human or animal faces in red or green ink inside their letters (ff. 19r, 24v, 36v, 80). Rubrics and chapter numbers in red. Foliate decoration in brown ink on f. 1v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039501 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 218 : Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (excerpt); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0219]/040-002039501
- 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_100059144217.0x000001
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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: 240 x 160 mm (text space: 205 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 141 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house, re-bound 2 November 1962; brown half leather binding, Howard’s bookplate (‘BIBLIOTHECA ARUNDELIANA’) gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘ALCUIN. SPECULUM’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Guisborough, Northern England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian priory of St Mary at Guisborough, North Yorkshire, owned in the 13th century: a 13th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Liber Sancte Marie de Gisbur[n]’; its pressmark on f. 1v: ‘Originalia Λ’ and ‘in quarta fenestre tercii gradus’.
?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. 2; its bookplate, with the added pencil inscription 'XIII: 6.8', inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- 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, pp. 59-60.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 94.
Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, 11 vols (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2010), II.1 (1972): Grossbritannien und Irland: Werkverzeichnis, ed. by Franz Römer, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Corpus der Lateinischen Kirchenväter, 3, Österreichische akademie der wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historische klasse, 281, p. 165.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, ‘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. 469 n. 53).
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 190-91, 228, 233.
Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2004), pp. ix, 24.
Lorenzo Valgimogli, Lo «Speculum Gregorii» di Adalberto di Metz, Archivum Gregorianum, 8 (Florence: SISMEL Edizione del Galluzo, 2006), p. 70.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.