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Arundel MS 235
- Record Id:
- 040-002039518
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00031b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062417734.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 235
- Title:
- Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici
- Scope & Content:
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This late 11th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms by the theologian Hugh of Langres (d. 1050), Bishop of Langres, and an allegorical interpretation of the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), suggest an origin at the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury.
ff. 1r-212v: Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos (Commentary on the Psalms).
f. 213r: Anonymous, Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici (The Interpretation of the Hebrew Alphabet).
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
f. 213v: The opening verses of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, ‘veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum’, added in the 13th century (?).
f. 213v: A prayer to the Virgin Mary for help after death, beginning ‘fac mecum domina clementissima virgo maria in hanc tuam misericordiam in hora assumptionis [...] quando lingua mea premortua non promovebuntur ad te invocandum oculi mei lucem’, added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
Small initials in red, some with arabesque motifs.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039518 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 235 : Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0236]/040-002039518
- 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_100062417734.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 145 mm (text space: 180 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 213 ( + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 3 paper stubs after f. 213; only early modern foliation throughout the manuscript.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house: re-bound on 15-05-1953. Brown half leather binding, Howard’s bookplate (‘BIBLIOTHECA ARUNDELIANA’) gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS’; light blue speckled foredges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Canterbury, England.
Provenance:
?The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: as suggested by script and initials (unpublished notes, Michal Gullick).
An unknown 15th-century owner: added prayer in a 15th century hand on f. 213v.
?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. 1).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society 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, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), Part I (1834): The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 70.
Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 6 vols (Madrid: Gráficas Marina, 1940-1958), nos 3598, 9617.
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 8, 95 (no. 361), pls. 6-7.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), p. 235 (no. 306).
Richard Gameson, ‘The Material Fabric of Early British Books’, in TheCambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume I: c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 60-61, 72 n. 248.
- 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.