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Arundel MS 348
- Record Id:
- 040-002039631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0003cc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056659868.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 348
- Title:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione; Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
- Scope & Content:
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This is a composite manuscript made up of three originally separate parts (ff. 1-101v; 102r-179v; 180r-276v):
Contents:
ff. 1r-51v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione (On Invention).
ff. 51v-101v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (The Rhetoric to Herennius).
ff. 102r-179v: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione, ending imperfect.
ff. 180r-276v: Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione (About Interpretation).
Decoration:
See Arundel MS 348, ff 1-101; Arundel MS 348, ff 102-179; Arundel MS 348, ff 180-276.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039631 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 348 : Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's… - Contains:
- Arundel MS 348, ff 1r-101v : Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Arundel MS 348, ff 102r-179v : Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Arundel MS 348, ff 180r-276v : Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Arundel MS 348 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0349]/040-002039631
- 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_100056659868.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimension: 210 x 125 mm.
Foliation: ff. 276 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
?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 with the pencil inscription ‘XIII.7.2’ (inside upper cover).
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 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 104.
M. Dickey, 'Some Commentaries on the De inventione and Ad Herennium of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries', Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 6 (1968), 1-41.
K. M. Fredborg, 'The Commentary of Thierry of Chartres on Cicero's De inventione', Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen Âge Grec et Latin, 7 (1971), 225-60 (p. 226 passim).
James Jerome Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 117-18.
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; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 125.
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith with the assistance of Joseph Ziegler, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 123-24.
John O. Ward, 'The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero's De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts', in The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition, ed. by Virginia Cox and John O. Ward (Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 3-75 (p. 72).
- 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.