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- Record Id:
- 040-002041584
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000085
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055968570.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11878
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is a fragment from a larger volume. Other fragments from the original volume are now Add MS 41567 (f. 118); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2243 (ff. 1-2); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2388 (ff. 1-2); Oslo-Spikkestadt, Mr. Martin Schøyen, MS 1361; Cambridge MA, Harvard University Library, Houghton Library, MS Typ. 592.
Contents:
ff. 1r-78r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23-24:11, beginning: 'Praefationem hujus operis toties necessario repeto quotiens hoc in distinctione voluminum locutionis meae pausatione succedo', ending: 'tam facile ad ea quae reliquerant redirent'.
Decoration:
A full-page geometrical frame with interlace in green and brown, highlighting the title of book 23 (f. 1v). A large initial 'P' for 'Praefationem', with uncoloured interlace (f. 2r). A large initial 'H', with interlace coloured in red and green (f. 54v). Rubrics in capitals filled in brown and green at the beginning of each book (f. 2r, 54r). Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041584 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11878 : Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0050]/040-002041584
- 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_100055968570.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0724
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm (text space: 175 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 78 (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); a 19th-century English note on the manuscript has been written on a small strip of paper pasted on f. [ii].
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Blue-velvet with gold-tooling with arms of the 'Bibliotheca Butleriana'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Luxeuil-les-Bains, Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Luxeuil: on the basis of the script (see Tewes, Die Handschriften der Schule von Luxeuil (2011)); added, 8th-century notes, written in a Luxeuil script by a different scribe (e. g., ff. 40r, 55v, 67v, 68v).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: included in the catalogue of his sale 2 June, 1840, lot 359.
Reverend Thomas Butler (b. 1806, d. 1886), clergyman and naturalist: bought from him by the British Museum on 5 July 1841.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1841-1845 (London: The British Museum, 1850), p. 14.
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 p. 51, pl. 29.
The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner, (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 2.
W. M. Lindsay, Paleographia Latina (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922), p. 39.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 163.
Michelle Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: The British Library, 1990), pl.13.
David Ganz, 'Texts and scripts in surviving manuscripts in the script of Luxeuil', in Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages: texts and transmissions, ed. by Michael Richter (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), 186-204 (p. 200).
Babette Tewes, Die Handschriften der Schule von Luxeuil (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011), pp. 147-49.
Jesse Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 106, 236.
Earlier Latin Manuscripts, ed. by Mark Stansbury and David Kelly (Galway: National University of Ireland, 2016), https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/478 [accessed 19 April 2017].
Marianna Cerno, Mirabile. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale (Florence: SISMEL, 2017) http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/london-british-library-add-11878-manoscript/91107 [accessed 19 April 2017].
- 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.