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040-002058175
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A collection of works by Palladius, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Justinian, St Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, and Robert of Basevorn

Scope & Content:

This manuscripts consists of three different parts that were bound together before 1592, as follows:

ff. 1-135: Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts).

ff. 136-190: Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres:

ff. 191-262: A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
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Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project
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032-002058172
040-002058175
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Add MS 38816-38824 : Dunn Manuscripts

 

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A parchment codex

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Languages:
Latin
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Latin
Start Date:
1175
End Date:
1324
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Foliation: ff. 262 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end); ff. i; iii; iv are early modern paper flyleaves; f. ii is a book plate; ff. 187v-190r are blank leaves.

Binding: British Museum/British Library; rebound in 1914.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

John Pilkington, archdeacon of Durham (archdeacon from 1563- after 1602): his ownership inscription 'Sum Iohannis Pilkingtoni Dunelmensis 1592 Martii 23o', with the motto "Morbus est, non iudicium, damnare quod non inspexeris" (ff. 1r, 49r, 109r, 136r).

John Somers, Baron Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), lawyer and politician: cited in his catalogue now Harley MS 7191, f. 170r; his librarian wrote the table of contents (f. iv).

Sir Joseph Jekyll (d. 1738), lawyer and politician: his sale catalogue 1738/9, lot. 438.

George Dunn of Woolley Hall (b. 1864; d. 1912): acquired in June 1904 (inscription on f. iii recto); his bookplate (f.ii recto); his notes (f. iii recto); his sale London, Sotheby's, 2-6 February.

Bought by the British Museum, February 1914, lot 1435.

Information About Copies:
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1968), I, no. 38818.

G. R. Owst, An Introduction to Sermon Manuscripts of the Period c. 1350-1450 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926), p. 314.

Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L.D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 443.

Richard E.M. Moore, 'A Newly Observed Stratum in Roman Floor Mosaics', American Journal of Archaeology, 72 (1968), 57-68 (p. 58 n. 13).

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 2 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1985), II, p. 831.

Philippe Richardot, Végèce et la culture militaire au Moyen Age (Ve-XVe siècles) (Paris: Econimica, 1998), p. 202.

Siegfried Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wycliff (Cambridge: Cambridge University of Cambridge, 2005), pp. 36, 149, 220, 466, 636-37, 651.

Christopher Allmand, The De Re Militari of Vegetius: the Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 59, 356.

Siegfried Wenzel, Medieval 'Artes Praedicandi': A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), p. 16.

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.
Related Material:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1968), I, no. 38818:

'VITRUVIUS, De Architectura, Vegetius, De Re Militari, and Palladius, De Agricultura; bound with later theological matter, viz. : 1. De Agricultura by Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus. Beg. without tituli "Pars est prudentie." In twelve books, the metrical lib. xiv, De insitione, being, omitted and the introductory book not separately numbered. On f. 48 b is the colophon "Palladii Rutili Tauri Emiliani uiri illustris opus agriculture explicit." Besides smaller omissions a lacuna occurs on f. 2 b, where i. 6, 10 "a terra placidis" is immediately followed by i. 7, 3 "et uoluptatis et salutis," and the loss of a leaf after f. 23 has caused iv. 6-9 "est primo in forma fictili" to fall out. Many passages are marked in the margin with [symbol] (? probatum) and other signs. Other copies are Sloane MS. 296, Harley MSS. 3296, 5263, Add. MS. 22015. Cf. J. C. Schmitt's edition, Teubner, 1898. f. 1.

2. "Victruvii de architectura liber primus (-decimus)": the De Architectura of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Preface beg. "Cum diuina tua," followed by capitula for lib. i ; text, "Architecti est scientia." Colophon, "Victruuii liber decimus explicit feliciter. amen." The text is of the family of Harley MS. 2767. Cf. V. Rose's edition, Teubner, 1899. f. 49.

3. "Flauii Vegetii illustris uiri epithoma rei militaris libri numero iiii" : the Rei militaris epitoma of Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Table of contents beg. "Primus liber eleetionem" ; text, "Antiquis temporibus mos." The text is closely akin to that of MSS. E and P in Lang's Teubner edition (1885). In lib. iii at the end the artt. beg. "De equitatu" and "Quo genere" are reversed (f. 128 b), as also the order of iv. 10 and 11 (f. 130). Colophon (f. 134 b), "Flavii Vegetii illustris viri epithoma rei militaris libri numero iiii" expliciunt feliciter." For other MSS. see Royal MS. 7 C. i, art. 17. f. 109.

4. Extracts from the Institutiones of Justinian. f. 134 b. Artt. 1-4 form a single MS. in one hand.

5. Subject-indices of the following works of St. Augustine (with one of Prosper Aquitanus), De Agone Christiano, Sententiae S. Augustini by Prosper Aquitanus, De Sermone Domini, Encheiridion, De Penitentia (Sermon CCCLI), De Trinitate, De Vera Religione, De Libero Arbitrio, De Natura Boni, De Natura et Gratia, Retractationes, Super Genesin, Confessiones (imperf. at end). The arrangement is according to the first two vowels of the word. f. 136.

6. De signis, beg. imperf. "passus mundicie." f. 186.

7. Table of contents of the De summo bono (or Sententiae) of St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville. f. 186 b.

8. Collection of sermons in several hands on various texts, originally prefaced by a treatise now last in order, De modo faciendi sermones, the Forma predicandi attributed to Robert de Basevorn (cf. Royal MS.

7 C. i, art. 14). Prologue beg. imperf. "vsque ad suum terminum"; text, "Ostendendum est in primis." Only twenty of the fifty chapters are given. An index (f. 261 b) gives the original order of the collection. Ff. 232-235 are in a formal book-hand of the end of the 13th cent. Sermon xvi (f. 228) contains phrases translated into English. Among them is a reference (f.229b) to a symbolic design satirizing human vanity by an ape riding an ass and holding an owl, with inscription " Neyzer more ne lesse þen ape and oule and asse." Cf. a cast in the Department (cliv. 113) from a seal in the Taunton Museum. f. 191.

9. Synonyma or Soliloquia of St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville, beg. "Venit nuper." Incomplete, one page only. f. 261. Vellum; ff. iv + 262. 83/4 in. x 61/4 in. Artt. 1-4 XII-XIII cent., art. 5 and ff. 232-235 XIII cent., the rest xiv cent. Gatherings in artt. 1-4 of 8 leaves (v6, vi9 ) ; in artt. 5-7 irregular (i13, ii15, iii18, iv9) ; in artt. 8, 9 irregular (i4, ii12, iii8, iv3, v14, marked "quaternio 3," vi4, vii12, marked "quat. 2," viii8, marked "quat. l, ix6 ). Sec. fol. "Sed ubi." Initials red and green. Notes of ownership of John Pilkington, Archdeacon of Durham: "Sum Iohannis Pilkingtoni Dunelmensis 1592 Martii 230," with the motto "Morbus est, non iudicium, damnare quod non inspexeris" (ff. 1, 49, 109, 136). Afterwards belonged to John, Lord Somers, see the catalogue of his MSS. in Harley MS. 7191, f. 170. The table of contents on f. iv is in the hand of Somers's cataloguer. Afterwards to Sir Joseph Jekyll (sale-cat. 1738/9, lot 438). Later probably to Sir Charles Isham of Lamport. Sold at Sotheby's 18 June, 1904, lot 228. Dunn sale-cat. 1914, lot 1435.'.