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- Record Id:
- 040-002041553
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000068
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055967262.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11850
- Title:
- The Four Gospels ('The Préaux Gospels')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2v-4r: Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Novum opus me facere cogis'.
ff. 4r-v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Pseudo-Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Sciendum etiam nequem ignarum'.
ff. 4v-6r: Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum Ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome, Prologue to the four Gospels from his commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'.
ff. 6r-v: Eusebius, Epistula ad Carpianum (Eusebius's epistle to Carpianus), beginning: 'Eusebius Carpiano Fratri Salutem. Ammonius quidam Alexandrinus'.
ff. 6v-9r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Mattheum; prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew (ff. 6v-7v), followed by capitula (ff. 7v-9r), beginning: 'Mattheus ex iudea in ordine'.
ff. 10r-16r: The Eusebian Canon tables.
ff. 17r-58v: Evangelium Secundum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew) with lections, beginning: 'Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David'.
ff. 59r-60v: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Marcum; prologue to the Gospel of St Mark (ff. 59r-v), followed by capitula (ff. 59v-60v), beginning: 'Marcus evangelista Dei et Petri'.
ff. 61r-87v: Evangelium Secundum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark) with lections, beginning: 'Inicium Evangelii Iesu Christi filii Dei sicut scriptum est in Isaia propheta'.
ff. 88r-90r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Lucam; prologue to the Gospel of St Luke (ff. 88r-v), followed by capitula (ff. 88v-90r), beginning: 'Lucas Syrus natione Anthiocensis'.
ff. 91r-135v: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke) with lections, beginning: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'.
ff. 136r-137r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Iohannem; prologue to the Gospel of St John (ff. 136r-v), followed by capitula (ff. 136v-137r), beginning: 'Hic est Iohannes evangelista'.
ff. 138r-169v: Evangelium Secundum Iohannem (The Gospel of St John) with lections, beginning: 'In principio erat verbum'.
Decoration:
Canon tables in colours and gold, with seated human figures, animal, dragons and foliate decoration surrounding the architectural framework. The arches are surmounted by saints and the Evangelists and by dragons and by churches (ff. 10r-16r). Four full-page miniatures of the Evangelists in colours and gold, in rectangular frames with a foliate decoration (ff. 17v, 61v, 91v, 138v). Four full or half-page initials in colours and gold with figures and animals climbing or sitting on the frame of the initial at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 18r, 62r, 92r, 139r). Large initials in gold and colours, with foliate decoration, some with animal heads, at the beginning of prefatory material (f. 2v, 4r, 4v, 6r, 7r, 59r, 88r, 136r). Full-page incipit pages with display capitals in blue, red and green (ff. 17r, 61r, 91r, 138r). Initials in gold, some with highlighting in red or blue. Numerals in red. Highlighting of letters in red or green.
This artist also illuminated three other manuscripts from Préaux: Paris, BnF MS lat. 2127; Paris, BnF MS lat. 12229 and Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 498, according to Avril, La France romane (2005), p. 133.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041553 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11850 : The Four Gospels ('The Préaux Gospels') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0023]/040-002041553
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- 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_100055967262.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 x 190 mm (text space 190 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 169 (+ 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves + 1 unfoliated modern parchment leaf at the end); f. 1 is a modern parchment flyleaf; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 16.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Bibliotheca Butleriana binding, white leather, gold tooling and coat of arms.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Préaux, Northwestern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux, Les Préaux: (see Avril, La France romane (2005)).
Added, early 19th-century description of the manuscript in Latin and English on paper (pasted onto f. 1r).
Added, printed modern extract in French from an unidentified sale catalogue (pasted onto f. 1r).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his arms (front cover); his sale, 1 June, 1840, lot. 457 (this sale did not take place).
Reverend Thomas Butler (b. 1806, d. 1886), Samuel Butler's son, clergyman and naturalist, bought from him by the British Museum on 5 July 1841.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), no. 11850.
Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 59).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 30.
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), pp. 214, 223, pl. 77v.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 118.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 29, 51.
C. R. Dodwell, Painting in Europe: 800 to 1200 (London : Penguin Books, 1971), p. 88, pl. 108.
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), p. 19, fig. 7.
Elżbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), p. 29.
Wiliam M. Hinkle, 'A Mounted Evangelist in a Twelfth-Century Gospel Book at Sées', Aachener Kunstblatter, 44 (1973), 193-220 (pp. 198-99, figs 7-8).
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 9.
The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, ed. by Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, and Leslie Webster (London: British Museum, 1984), no. 261 [exhibition catalogue].
Hartmut Hoffmann, Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich , 2 vols, Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 30 (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1986) I, 100 n. 18.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 20.
Richard Gameson, ‘Hugo Pictor enlumineur normand', Cahiers de civilization médiévale, 44 (2001), 121-38 (p. 125 n. 13).
Richard Gameson, 'La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Xie siècle: Le temoignage des manuscrits', in La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Moyen Âge, Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 4-7 octobre 2001, ed. by Pierre Bouet and Véronique Gazeau (Caen: CRAHM, 2003), pp. 129-59 (p. 144, pl. 9).
La France romane au temps des premiers capétiens, 987-1152: Paris, musée du Louvre, 10 mars-6 juin 2005, ed. by François Avril, Xavier Barral i Altet and others (Paris: Hazan, 2005), p. 330.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 77, fig. 64.
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 18. 164.
- 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.