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Arundel MS 393
- Record Id:
- 040-002039676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000061
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153583.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 393
- Title:
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The Canonical Collection Dionisio-Hadriana
- Scope & Content:
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This is an early 9th-century copy of the Collectio canonum Dionysio-Hadriana, the Dionysian collection of canons as extended by Pope Hadrian I (772-795) at the request of Charlemagne in 774. It was made in Bavaria, southern Germany. This origin is supported by the particulars of the script, but also by the marginal glosses in Old High German (57 glosses, ff. 3r-34r), some of which use the so-called "star-rune", a combination of two runes to represent the syllable ga- (ff. 5v-6r, 11v) (see e.g., Bergmann and Stricker, Katalog (2005), pp. 870-71). This rune is only found used in this way in one other manuscript, also of the early 9th-century Bavaria, now Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 22053, which is the sole witness of the so-called ‘Wessobrunn Prayer’, in Old High German.
A 12th-century quire has been added at the end, which mainly contains a treatise against the errors of Gilbert of Poitiers (also known as Gilbert de la Porrée, b. c. 1085, d. 1154) by Geoffrey of Auxerre (b. c. 1115-1120, d. c. 1118), (ff. 94r-99r).
Contents:
ff. 1r-93r: Collectio canonum Dionysio-Hadriana (The Dionysian-Hadrian collection of canons), with 9th-century marginal and interlinear glosses throughout.
ff. 94r-99r: Added 12th-century text, Geoffrey of Auxerre, Libellus contra capitula Gilberti Pictaviensis episcopi (Little book against the writings of Gilbert of Poitiers), beginning: 'Quatuor quaedam in his scedulis capitula, lector, invenies', ending: 'unitate unum, divinitate Deum esse et alia'.
f. 96v: A 12th-century excerpt from Anselm of Canterbury (b. c. 1033/4, d. 1109), De divinitatis essentia monologium (Monologue on the divine essence), chapter 44, beginning: '[U]nde etiam si alter alterius dicatur essentia', ending: 'idem esse est alteri, quod alteri'.
Decoration:
Large (4-line) and small (2-line) initials and incipits in brown ink with red infill.
Added sketches of foliage in the margins, 12th century (ff. 48v-49r).
Running header in brown ink in the upper margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039676 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 393 : The Canonical Collection Dionisio-Hadriana - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0394]/040-002039676
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153583.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German, Old High
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm (text space: 195 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 99 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
The margins of the last quire (ff. 94-99) have been trimmed to match the dimensions of the original part of the manuscript, cutting off the upper margin and the top line of text.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Speckled brown calf leather over wooden boards; gilt-stamped ‘Bibliotheca Arundeliana’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bavaria, Germany.
Provenance:
Bavaria, Germany: written by several Bavarian or southern German hands, and also includes contemporary Old High German marginal and interlinear glosses (see Bischoff, Katalog, no. 2417).
Possibly 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); his bookplate with pencil inscription, ‘XIII.6.9’ (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:
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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, pp. 115-16.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, pp. 87-88, pl. 46.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), 51-77 (p. 63).
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen: Junge: 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, pp. 52-53, no. 76.
Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londer Hss’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (pp. 199-201).
R. Derolez, Runica Manuscripta: The English Tradition, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent Werken Uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, 118 (Brugges: De Tempel, 1954), p. 389.
Ute Schwab, Die Sternrune im Wessobrunner Gebet: Beobachtungen zur Lokalisierung des clm 22053, zur Hs. BM Arundel 393 und zu Rune Poem V. 86-89 (Amsterdam: Rodopi NV, 1973), esp. pp. 22-30, figs. 6, 7A-B.
Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 95.
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. 321.
Lotte Kéry, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140) (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 15.
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. 106, no. 2417.
Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, ed. by Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, 6 vols (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2005), II, pp. 870-1, no. 407 [with additional bibliography].
Elmar Seebold, Chronologisches Wörterbuch des deutschen Wortschatzes: Der Wortschatz des 9. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 58-59.
Rolf Bergmann and Sibylle Blum, 'Überblick über die Canones-Glossierung', in Die althochdeutsche und altsächsische Glossographie. Ein Handbuch, ed. by. Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, 2 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009), I, 549-61 (p. 552).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)