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Arundel MS 241
- Record Id:
- 040-002039524
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000341
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059811474.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 241
- Title:
- Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was most likely produced in the 10th or early 11th century (ex info. Michael Gullick; but dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century by Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), no. 2414). It contains a collection of three of the works that are commonly referred to by the title De Trinitate (On the Trinity) and were associated with St Athanasius of Alexandria (b. c. 296, d. 373) during the Middle Ages. After the Middle Ages, these works were ascribed to other authors, contemporary or near-contemporary with St Athanasius, who were similarly connected with Trinitarianism: for example, Vigilius of Thapsus (fl. c. 484), Bishop of Thapsus (see Patrologia Latina 62, pp. 237-334 (Books 1-8, 9, and 12)).
Contents:
ff. 1r-77v: Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate, in eight books. Books I-VII were probably written by Eusebius of Vercelli (b. c. 283, d. 371), and book VIII possibly by Vigilius of Thapsus. Beginning: ‘Tu unus deus pater et unigenitus deus filius’.
ff. 77v-79r: Pseudo-Athanasius, Libellus fidei (Little book of Faith); a version of the Nicene Creed that has been attributed to various authors contemporary with St Athanasius by early modern and modern scholars. The work also circulated under other titles, for example Fides Romanorum (The Faith of the Romans). Beginning: ‘Credo in Deum patrem omnipotentem et unigenitum Iesum Christum’. Preceded by a short admonitory note beginning: ‘Cum legeris per hanc fidem moneo’. This work is not included in Patrologia Latina 62, but found in some other early medieval manuscript copies of Pseudo-Athanasian material, such as late 8th-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 112, f. 37r (see Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 9, ed. V. Bulhart, p. 127).
ff. 79r-113r : Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate et de Spiritu Sancto (On the Trinity and the Holy Spirit), beginning: ‘His qui filium dei creatum esse profitentur’ (Printed as Book 12 of the De Trinitate in Patrologia Latina 62, pp. 307-34, and in Corpus Christianorum Series Latina,9, ed. V. Bulhart, pp. 165-205).
[f. 113v is blank].
Decoration:
Plain two-line initials in red (now oxidised) marking the start of each new major text section.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039524 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 241 : Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0242]/040-002039524
- 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_100059811474.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0960
- End Date:
- 1040
- Date Range:
- Late 10th century-Early 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 155 mm (text space: 170 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 113 (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at beginning + at the end); the lower half of f. 113 has been replaced with new parchment.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1949; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'IDATII ET ATHANASII OPUSCULA.'
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern France.
Provenance:
An unknown 13th-century owner: added a summary of the manuscript's contents, and a possible shelfmark, in the top margin of f. 1r; notes and pen trials (now partially erased) on f. 113v.
? 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).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
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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 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 71.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: a Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols. (London: Warburg Institute, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 125.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 105 (no. 2414).
- 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.