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- Record Id:
- 040-002041579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000080
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059051570.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11873
- Title:
- Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains three theological works by Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 530). It was copied at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny, where it may have remained in its library until the monastery was destroyed by French Revolutionary forces in 1790.
Contents:
ff. 1r-58v: Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem (Sermons on the First Epistle of St John).
ff. 59r-137v: Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Teaching).
ff. 137rv-170v: Augustine of Hippo, Liber de Vera Religione (The Book about the True Faith). On f. 143r the scribe notes that a missing part from his exemplar is copied at a different location in this manuscript. The missing part can be found on ff. 165r-170v (beginning: ‘Vita ergo voluntario’; ending: ‘Sed tales auditores carminum non inveniuntur’).
ff. 170v-171v: pen trials and notes, including the Ave Maria (f. 70v) with musical notation (neumes).
Decoration:
3 large initials with knot-work decoration in purple, green and yellow (ff. 59r, 60r), or green, yellow and imitation silver (f. 93v); 1 large initial in yellow and imitation silver (f. 137r); 3 small initials in green and imitation silver with knot-work decoration (f. 93v). 8 small initials in black ink with red pen-work decoration (ff. 8r, 14r, 23v, 28v, 36r, 40r, 46r, 53r). Small initials in black ink throughout the manuscript. A strip with foliate decoration in black ink in the lower margin of f. 58v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041579 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11873 : Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0045]/040-002041579
- 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_100059051570.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm (text space: 220 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 171 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end).
Script: Carolingian.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled, blind- and gold-stamped brown leather binding, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: ‘S. AUGUSTINI – SERMONES – IN S. JOH. EPIST – AD PARTHOS. – DE DOCTRINA – CHRISTIANA – DE VERA RELIGIONE.’
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Cluny, Eastern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Cluny, from the 10th century onwards: on f. 136v the scribe identifies himself as who, according to a 19th-century note on f. [iii] can be identified as St Majolus of Cluny (b. c. 906, d. 994), abbot of Cluny (954-994); according to a note on f. [i] recto the manuscript can be identified as manuscript 149 in a catalogue of Cluny’s manuscripts, written under the abbacy of Hugh III (1157-1163) (see Delisle, Le cabinet, II (1874), p. 463).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, in 1841: his bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower binding (‘E·BIBLIOTHECA·BUTLERIANA’); his sale, 5 July 1841, lot 425: a note on the inside of the upper cover: ‘Bibl. Butl. – Sale lot 425’; purchased by the British Museum for £4.14.6: according to the British Library’s annotated copy of BibliothecaButleriana, III (1841), p. 32 (no. 425).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: Woodfall, 1850), p. 14.
Léopold Victor Delisle, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 4 vols (Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1868-1881), II (1874), p. 463 (no. 149).
De vera religione, ed. by William M. Green, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 77, Sancti Aureli Augustini Opera, 6.5 (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1961), esp. pp. x, xviii.
Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, 11 vols (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2010), II.1 (1972): Grossbritannien und Irland: Werkverzeichnis, ed. by Franz Römer, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Corpus der Lateinischen Kirchenväter, 3, Österreichische akademie der wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historische klasse, 281, pp. 67, 108, 194.
Monique-Cécile Garand 'Copistes de Cluny au temps de Saint Maieul (948-994)', Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, 136 (1978), 5-38 (pp. 6, 18, 28-29).
Paul Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 216.
- 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.