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040-002041586

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Add MS 11880

Title:

A Latin Legendary, Vitae et Passiones sanctorum

Scope & Content:

Vitae et Passiones Sanctorum (Lives and Passions of the Saints), a legendary containing the following texts:

f. 1r: An index of contents listing 34 texts.

ff. 1v-6v: De VII dormientibus (seven sleepers of Ephesus).

ff. 6v-8v: Passio Sancti Cypriani episcopi (St Cyprian).

ff. 9r-16v: Passio apostolorum Petri et Pauli (Sts Peter and Paul).

ff. 17r-20v: Passio beatorum Machabeorum (based on 11 Maccabees, VI.18 - VII.41).

ff. 21r-24r:Passio sancti Sixti, Laurentii, Ippoliti (Sts Sixtus, Laurence, Hippolyte).

ff. 25r-34r: Passio beatae Agnae virginis (St Agnes).

ff. 34r-41v: Passio beatae Agathae virginis (St Agatha).

ff. 41v-59v: Passio beatae Christinae virginis (St Christina).

ff. 60v-63v: Vita sanctae Marinae virginis (St Marina).

ff. 64r-71v: De obitu beatae Mariae (Death of Mary).

ff. 71v-85v: Vita sanctae Radgundis, ab episcopo Fortunato exposita (St Radegund).

ff. 86r-89r: Vita Sulpicii, episcopi et confessoris.(St Sulpicius).

ff. 89v-95r: De passione sancti Christofori (St Christopher).

ff. 95v-100v Passio sancti Mauricii et sociorum eius (St Maurice and companions).

ff. 101r-109r: De revelatione beati Diaconi Stephani (revelation to Stephen the deacon).

ff. 109r-110v: Passio sanctorum Scilitanorum (Scillitan martyrs).

ff. 111r-119r: De Inventione sancte Crucis (Discovery of the True Cross).

ff. 119r-125v: Passio Quiriaci, episcopi (St Cyriac).

ff. 126r-129v: De passione Felicis, episcopi (St Felix).

ff. 130r-139r: Passio Mammarii et comitum (St Mammarius).

ff. 139r-145r: Passio Vincentiæ et Margaretæ (Sts Vincent and Margaret).

ff. 145v-154v: De passione Donati martyris (St Donatus).

ff. 155r-156v: De passione sancti Albani (St Alban).

ff. 156v-160r: De vita Sulpicii, episcopi (St Sulpicius).

ff. 160r-168r De Domitilla, Nereo, et Achilleo (Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus).

ff. 168r-170r: Rescriptio Marcelli ad Nereum et Achilleum (reply of Marcellus).

ff. 170r-172r: De vita S. Petronillæ (St Petronilla).

ff. 172r-174r: Litterae Victorini, et Maronis ad Marcellum, Papam; (letters of Victorinus and Maro to Pope Marcellus).

ff. 174v-176v: Passio sanctorum Sulpicii, episcopi, et Serviliani (Sts Sulpicius and Servilianus).

ff. 176v-177v: Passio sancti Cesarii, diaconi (St Cesarius).

ff. 177v-186r: Passio sanctae Anastasiæ (imperfect); Passio sanctae Columbæ (imperfect).

ff. 186v-214r: Prologus et vita sancti Corbiniani (St Corbinian).

f. 214v: Antiphon 'pro defunctus', begins 'Memento quaeso domine quod sicut', with musical notation (CANTUS database no 601410)

ff. 215r-231v: Epistolis Chromatii et Heliodori ad Hieronymum et ipsius ad eos responsoria, De ortu beate Marie virginis (Letter from Chromatius and Heliodorus to Jerome; Pseudo-Jerome, Birth of the Virgin).

f. 232r-239v: Prologus et vita sancti Quintino (St Quentin).

f. 240r: A short text on St Simon Stylites.

Written by three different scribes; the addition on f. 240r is perhaps added by a later hand (see Bischoff (1960), p. 207)

Decoration:

Initials in light brown ink. Rubrics in capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002041530
040-002041586

Is part of:

Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.

Add MS 11880 : A Latin Legendary, Vitae et Passiones sanctorum

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032-002041530[0052]/040-002041586

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0800

End Date:

0849

Date Range:

1st half of the 9th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 160 mm (text space: 170 x 115/20 mm).

Foliation: ff. 240 (+ 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation: Quires of 8 folios numbered I to XXX in the lower margin of the last folio of each quire.

Script: Caroline Minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling and stamp of the coat of arms of the Bibliotheca Butleriana.

Custodial History:

Origin: Regensburg, S.E. Germany.

Provenance:

Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d.1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; in the catalogue of his cancelled sale of 1841, lot 391.

Bought by the British Museum from the Rev. Thomas Butler, 5 July 1841.

Publications:

[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. 62.

Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum for the years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), pp. 14-15.

Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 59).

Herbert Musurillo, The Acts of the Christian Martys: Introduction, texts and translation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. xxiii.

Guy Philippart, Les Légendiers Latins et autres manuscrits Hagiographiques, Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age occidental (Turnhout: Brepols, 1977), pp. 14, 34, 35, 38, 39)

Herbert Musurillo, The Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Introduction, texts and translation (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1972).

Otto Lendle, 'Christliche Texte im altsprachlichen Unterricht', Gymnasium, Zeitschrift für Kultur der Antike und humanistische Bildung, 82 (1975), 194-224.

Bernhard Bischoff, Die sudostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1960, 1980), I, Die bayrischen Diozesen, (1960) p. 207.

Jan Gijsel, 'Les Evangiles latins de l'enfance de M.R. James, Analecta Bollandiana , 94 (1976), 289-302 (p. 297).

J.E. Cross, 'The Use of Patristic Homilies in the Old English Martyrology', Anglo-Saxon England, 14 (1985), 107-28 (pp. 126, n. 99, 128, n. 119).

Robert Mullally, 'The Carole, A Study of a Medieval French Dance' (unpublished PhD thesis, Kings College London, 2005), pp. 42, n.33, 272.

Jonathan P. Conant, 'Europe and the African Cult of Saints circa 350-900, An Essay in Mediterranean Communication', Speculum 85.1 (2010) 1-46 (p. 11, n. 38).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Achilleus, Sanctus, Martyr
Agatha, Saint, c 231-c 251
Agnes, Saint, c 291-c304
Albanus, Sanctus
Anastasia, Saint
Christina, Saint, Virgo et Martyr; ix. kal Aug
Christophorus, Sanctus, Martyr
Columba, S Virgin and Martyr
Corbinianus, Sanctus
Cyprian of Carthage, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, c 200-258,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453789033,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100179090
Cæsarius, Sanctus
Donatus, Saint, martyr, fl before 9th century
Euticides
Felix, bishop, fl 9th century
Flavia Domitilla, Saint, fl 1st century
Heliodorus, Saint, Bishop of Altinum, fl 4th century
Hippolytus, Saint, of Rome, 170-235
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Lawrence, Saint, of Add MS 11880
Mammarius, Sanctus
Marcellus, Sancti Petri discipulus
Margaret, Saint, of Add MS 11880
Marina, Sancta, Virgo
Maro, Sanctus
Mary, Saint, the Blessed Virgin, fl 1st century
Mauricius, Sanctus
Nereus, Saint
Paul, Saint, of Add MS 11880
Peter, Saint, Apostle and martyr
Petronilla, Saint
Quintinus, Saint, Martyr
Quiriacus, Episcopus
Radegundis, Sancta
Scilitani, Sancti
Servilianus, Sanctus
Sixtus I, Pope
Stephen, Saint, First Martyr
Sulpicius, Sanctus, Episcopus
Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, c 535-600,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120301861,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88046472
Victorinus
Vincentia, Sancta

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1850):

'Passiones Sanctorum (Passions of the Saints): De Septem Dormientibus; Passio S. Cypriani; Passio Apostolorurn Petri et Pauli; Passio Beatorum Machabeorum; Passio SS. Sixti, Laurentii, et Ippoliti; Passio Beatæ Agnetis, virginis;- Passio Beatæ Agathæ, virginis; Passio Beatæ Christinæ, virginis; De vita S. Marinæ, virginis; De obitu Beatæ Mariæ; Vita S. Radegundis, ab episcopo Fortunato exposita; Vita Sulpicii, episcopi et confessoris; De passione S. Christofori; Passio S. Mauricii et sociorum ejus; De revelatione Beati Diaconi Stephani; Passio SS. Scilitanorum; De Inventione S. Crucis; Passio Quiriaci, episcopi; De passione Felicis, episcopi; Passio Mammarii et comitum; Passio Vincentiæ et Margaretæ; De passione Donati, martyris; De passione S. Albani; De vita Sulpicii, episcopi; De Domitilla, Nereo, et Achilleo; Rescriptio Marcelli ad Nereum et Achilleum; De vita S. Petronillæ; Litterm Euticidis, Victorini, et Maronis ad Marcellum, Papam; Passio SS. Sulpicii, episcopi, et Serviliani; Passio S. Cesarii, diaconi; Passio S. Anastasiæ (imperfect); Passio S. Columbæ (imperfect); Vita S. Corbiniani; S. Hieronymi liber de ortu B. Mariæ Virginis; praemissis epistolis Chromatii et Heliodori ad Hieronymum, et ipsius ad eos responsoria; De S. Quintino. On vellum, 9th century, Quarto.'