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Add MS 12117 B
- Record Id:
- 040-002041826
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00036d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12117 B
- Title:
- Record of the Capture of Ravenna
- Scope & Content:
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Purporting to be a record of the capture of the city of Ravenna from the Lombards by Paul, Exarch of Ravenna, with the aid of theVenetians and Bolognese, in the year 724. The inscription forms an actual portion of the Chronicon Venetum, but it is unclear whether the chronicler quotes from this tablet, or the tablet forms a portion of his work.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041826 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 12117 B : Record of the Capture of Ravenna - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0283]/040-002041826
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Latin inscription upon a lamina of lead, in shape and rudely rectangular; consisting of seventeen lines in capital letters. Originally inscribed upon a lamina of lead hammered to a very thing leaf, and from its appearance in 1872, not as pure as the others of the series. At the time, it was remarked that it was very much oxidized by the action of the air, and glued to a piece of card for security.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0724
- End Date:
- 0724
- Date Range:
- 724
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Lead.
Dimensions: 3 x 4 inches.
Script: Similar to Add MS 12117 C.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Unknown.
Provenance: Purchased from the Rev. Thomas Butler in 1841.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Butleriana: A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D. Lord Bishop of Lichfield (London: Payne and Foss, 1841), pp. 62-64, nos. 731-735.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 41-2.
W. de Gray Birch, Inscriptions on Leaves of Lead Preserved in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum (London: J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1873).
Societas Aperiendis Fontibus Rerum Germanicarum Medii Aevi, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Epistolae, III.1 (Berlin: Apud Weidmannos, 1892), p. 702.
T. Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders: The Lombard Kingdom, 600-744 (New York: Russell & Russell, 1967), pp. 506-507.
Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Ravenna, Italy