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Add MS 11883
- Record Id:
- 040-002041589
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00008a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11883
- Title:
- Petrus Riga, Aurora
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-81v: Petrus Riga, Aurora, a commentary on the Bible in Latin verse (first redaction). Begins: 'Frequens sodalium meorum petition cum quibus conversando'. The final book in this copy is the Actus Apostolorum.
The Aurora is also found in the following British Library manuscripts: Additional 31828, Arundel 226, Arundel 228, Harley 6578, Royal 2 D. XXIII, and Sloane 1726.
Decoration:
Red painted initials, some with pen-flourishing in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041589 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11883 : Petrus Riga, Aurora - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0055]/040-002041589
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11883 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 145 mm (text space: 175 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 81 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end)
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather with gold tooling and 'Bibliotheca Butleriana' stamp.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Clairvaux).
Provenance:
The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary, Clairvaux: 14th-century ownership inscription, 'd. 26. / liber Sancte Marie Clarevall(ensis)' (f. 81v); 15th-century ownership inscription (f. 1r); no. D 26 in the inventory compiled in 1472 under the direction of Pierre de Virey, abbot of Claivaux (fl. 1471-1496); no. B b VI? in the inventory compiled c.1520-1521 under the direction of Mathurin de Cangey, monk, humanist, and probably librarian of the abbey (fl. 1488-1521); no. A b I in the inventory of the Bibliothèque du dortoir, compiled in 1520; no. 516? in the catalogue of 1664 (La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Clairvaux (1979), I, pp. 100, 384, 590, 679, 764).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), Headmaster and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his sale, Bibliotheca Butleriana: A Catalogue of the Library of the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Lord Bishop of Lichfield. Part III (London: Payne and Foss, 1841), no. 341 (p. 24); purchased by the British Museum.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841–1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 15.
Frideric Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 6 vols (Madrid: Graficas Marina, 1940-1958), IV (1954), no. 6823.
La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Clairvaux, du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, ed. by André Vernet, Jean-Francois Genest and Jean-Paul Bouhot, 2 vols (Pais: Editions du CNRS, 1979-1997), I, pp. 100, 384, 590, 679, 764; II, pp. 224-25.
Michael Lapidge, 'Versifying the Bible in the Middle Ages', in The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers, ed. by Jill Mann and Maura Nolan (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 11-40 (p. 40 n. 73).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)