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- Record Id:
- 040-002041556
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00006b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060365082.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11853
- Title:
- The Pauline Epistles with Gloss
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Pauline Epistles with the Gloss by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. c. 1076, d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian, bishop of Poitiers (f. 193r: ‘Expliciunt Glosæ Magistri Gisleberti pictavensis episcopi super Epistolas pauli’). The text has been written in two columns, which was the standard layout for Gilbert’s Glosses from about 1160 onwards: in this format, the Gloss is written in the outer column, and the biblical text is added in the inner column (see De Hamel, Glossed Books (1984), p. 20 and Gross-Diaz, The Psalms Commentary (1996), p. 37). This format has been referred to as 'catena' by De Hamel and, more recently, 'cum textu' by Gross-Diaz. The manuscript has been decorated with a range of different types of initials, distinctly marking each of the Pauline Letters. The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but the style of its script and decoration suggests an origin in Northern France (ex info. Michael Gullick).
Contents:
ff. 3r-50r: The Epistle to the Romans.
ff. 50r-90r: The First Epistle to the Corinthians.
ff. 90r-109r: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians.
ff. 109r-121v: The Epistle to the Galatians.
ff. 121v-133r: The Epistle to the Ephesians.
ff. 133r-138v: The Epistle of Paul and Timothy to the Philippians.
ff. 138v-143r: The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians.
ff. 143r-146v: The First Epistle to the Thessalonians.
ff. 146v-149r: The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.
ff. 149r-156v: The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy.
ff. 156v-160r: The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy.
ff. 160r-163r: The Epistle to Titus.
ff. 163r-164r: The Epistle to Philemon.
ff. 164r-183r: The Epistle to the Hebrews.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 2r: An English note about Gilbert of Poitiers by Samuel Butler, dated 8 August 1816.
f. 1v: An English note in pencil with a description of the manuscript for Samuel Butler’s sale in 1841.
[ff. 1r, 2v, and 183v are empty].
Decoration:
1 quarter-page miniature of St Paul in colours against a gold background and frame in red and blue (f. 3r). 1 large zoomorphic initial in gold (f. 164r); 2 large interlace initials in red, green, blue and brown, one with the letter in gold, inhabited by zoomorphic figures (ff. 50r, 110v); 9 large initials in red, green, blue, ochre, or combinations of these colours, with arabesque motifs or foliate penwork decoration (ff. 3r, 122r, 133r, 138v, 143v, 146v, 149r [puzzle initial], 156v, 163r); 3 medium interlace initials in red, green, blue and brown, with foliate decoration or zoomorphic figures against a gold ground, in blue frames (ff. 3r, 50r, 90r); 12 medium initials in red, blue, green or ochre, sometimes with arabesque motifs or penwork decoration (ff. 109r, 121v, 133r, 138v, 143r, 146v, 149r, 156v, 160r (2x), 163r, 164r); 1 medium zoomorphic initial in green in a gold frame (f. 3r); 1 medium interlace initial outlined in green, ochre and red (f. 90v). Small initials highlighted in red (ff. 174v-175r). Rubrics in red. A ‘vacat’ section marked off with a red line (f. 174v). Running headers, paraph markers, underlining, and quire marks (final versos) in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041556 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11853 : The Pauline Epistles with Gloss - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0026]/040-002041556
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
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- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060365082.0x000001
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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.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm (text space: 210 x 160 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 183 ( + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end ); f. 2 is a modern paper leaf of a different size (225 x 190 mm); remnants of rope for tabs are attached to the lower margins of ff. 122, 138, 149, 160; a silk gauze has been attached to f. 164r to cover a large initial in gold.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Green morocco leather, grapevines gold-stamped at the edges, and Butler’s book-plate (‘E · BIBLIOTHECA · BUTLERIANA’) at the centre of the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘EPISTOLÆ S. PAULI AD ROMANOS, ETC.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France.
Provenance:
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, owned from 1816 onwards: his bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower binding (‘E·BIBLIOTHECA·BUTLERIANA’); perhaps his shelfmark on f. 3r (‘No 72’); his note dated to 8 August 1816 (f. 2v); his sale, London, 5 July 1841, lot 483 (see Bibliotheca Butleriana: A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Etc (London: Payne & Foss, 1841), p. 41); purchased by the British Museum for £10.10.0.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Butleriana: A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Etc. (London: Payne & Foss, 1841), p. 41.
Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in 1841-1845 (London: Woodfall, 1850), p. 12.
Maurice Simon, 'La Glose de l'Epître aux Romains de Gilbert de la Porrée', Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique, 52 (1957), 51-80.
Christopher de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1984), p. [20].
Theresa Gross-Diaz, The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers. From Lectio Divina to the Lecture Room (Leiden: Brill, 1996), p. 37.
Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, The Gracious God: Gratia in Augustine and the Twelfth Century (Copenhagen: Akademisk, 2002), p. 228 n. 394.
Paul Meyvaert, The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), p. 376 (II).
- 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.