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Arundel MS 386
- Record Id:
- 040-002039669
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00005a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100173571391.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 386
- Title:
- Prosper of Aquitaine, Expositio psalmorum; letters
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-125r: Prosper of Aquitaine, Expositio psalmorum. Commentary on Psalms 100-150. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Misericordiam et iudicium cantabo tibi domine. Psalmus iste de primo versu toto intellegendus est corpore & confitendumdeo. quoniam universae viae eius misericordia & veritas ut quae libet se nostris cogitationibus de rerum veritate ingerant causae'. Explicit (f. 125r): 'et quia sapere secundum carnem mors est omnis spiritus laudet dominum'. Colophon: 'in nomine christi explicit gloria deo'.
ff. 125r-126r: A religious form letter (see Polak 1994). Incipit (f. 125r): 'Quis navem dirigit si gubernator abscedat quis ab insidiis luporum custodiet oves si pastores cura non vigilet et quis denique latronibus obsistit et furibus si speculatorem in prospectu explorationis locatum ab intentione sollicitudinis amor quietis abducat'. Explicit (f. 126r: condicione servata ut in his quae vel dubia fuerint aut obscura id noverimus sequendum auod nec praeceptis evangelicis contrarium nec decretis sanctorum patrum inveniatur adversum'.
ff. 126r-129v: Sequence of questions and responses appended to a letter addressed to Rusticus of Narbonne (d. 461), and attributed to Leo the Great, pope (r. 440-461). See Patrologia Latina, vol. 54, cols 1203a-1209b. Incipit (f. 126r): 'Consulatis de presbyteris vel diaconis qui se eposcopos esse mentiti sunt & de his quos impsi clericos ordinarunt nulla ratio sinit ut inter episcopos habeantur qui nec a clericis sunt electi'. Explicit (f. 129v): 'si autem aut idola adoraverunt aut homicidiis vel fornicationibus contaminati sunt ad communionem eos nisi per paenitentiam publicum non oportet admitti'.
f. 129v: Various added notes and inscriptions, including a brief extract from a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153). 'Quidni fidelissimum fieret gratissimumque commercium inter celum & terram inter Angelos & apostolos ut exhiberetur illis caro christi istis vinum celi essetque in terra spiritus caro in celis ac deinceps omnia omnibus communia in errenum' (see Patrologia Latina, vol. 183, cols 330d-331a).
Decoration: Large initials in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039669 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 386 : Prosper of Aquitaine, Expositio psalmorum; letters - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0387]/040-002039669
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 129 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100173571391.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 195 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 129 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 2 at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Caroline miniscule.
Binding: Post-1600 binding of speckled calf; rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany (Lorsch).
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Eberbach (today Erbach near Eltville, diocese of Mainz), 15th century (see Palmer 1998, p. 283): inscribed 'Z 209' (f. 1r); similar inscriptions consisting of a 'Z' followed by a number are found in a significant number of manuscripts in the Arundel collection from the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach and the Carthusian abbey of Mainz.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician: purchased in 1636 in Germany, with other manuscripts confiscated from religious houses during the Thirty Years' War.
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 book-plate with the pencil inscription: 'XIII.5.26' (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Germany (Lorsch)
- 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 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 114.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 63).
Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften (Lorsch: Laurissa, 1989), pp. 38, 106-07.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989), p. 498.
Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America, Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), p. 323.
Le poesia davidica, profezia di Cristo: Commento ai Salmi 100-150, trans. by Andrea Ruggiero (Rome: Città Nuova, 1996), p. 25.
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: Die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der in Oxford und London aufbewahrten Handschriften (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1998), p. 283.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der Wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998- ), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2416.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)