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Lansdowne MS 453
- Record Id:
- 040-002075291
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002075291
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001257.0x0001fa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059471174.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 453
- Title:
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Bible
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Bible (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms) with prologues attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Pelagius (b. 360, d. 418).
Contents:
f. 1r-2r: St Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum (Letter 53: To Paulinus).
ff. 2r-4r: St Jerome, prologues for the Book of Genesis, Judges, Kings, Proverbs, Sirach, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Esdras.
ff. 11r-26r: The Book of Genesis.
ff. 26r-38r: The Book of Exodus.
ff. 38r-46r: The Book of Leviticus.
ff. 46r-56r: The Book of Numbers.
ff. 56r-65r: The Book of Deuteronomy.
ff. 65r-71r: The Book of Joshua.
ff. 71r-77v: The Book of Judges.
ff. 77v-78v: The Book of Ruth.
ff. 78v-87v: The Book of 1 Kings.
ff. 87v-95r: The Book of 2 Kings.
ff. 95r-103v: The Book of 3 Kings.
ff. 103v-111r: The Book of 4 Kings.
ff. 111r-118v: The Book of 1 Chronicles.
ff. 118v-127v: The Book of 2 Chronicles.
ff. 127v-134r: The Book of Esdras.
ff. 134r-136v: The Book of Tobit.
ff. 136v-140r: The Book of Judith.
ff. 140r-143r: The Book of Esther.
ff. 143r-148v: The Book of Proverbs.
ff. 148v-150v: The Book of Ecclesiastes.
ff. 150v-151v: The Song of Solomon.
ff. 151v-155r: The Book of Wisdom.
ff. 155r-166r: The Book of Sirach.
ff. 166r-172v: The Book of Job (ends with a praise of Job attributed to St Jerome, beginning: ‘Job exemplar patientiae’).
ff. 172v-181r: The Book of 1 Maccabees.
ff. 181r-186v: The Book of 2 Maccabees.
ff. 186v-199r: The Book of Isaiah.
ff. 199v-213v: The Book of Jeremiah.
ff. 213v-215r: The Book of Lamentations.
ff. 215r-215v: The Letter of Jeremiah.
ff. 215v-217r: The Book of Baruch.
ff. 217r-231r: The Book of Ezekiel.
ff. 231v-237v: The Book of Daniel.
ff. 237v-239r: The Book of Hosea.
ff. 239v-240r: The Book of Joel.
ff. 240r-241v: The Book of Amos.
f. 241v: The Book of Obadiah.
ff. 242r-242v: The Book of Jonah.
ff. 242v-243v: The Book of Micah.
ff. 243v-244r: The Book of Nahum.
ff. 244r-244v: The Book of Habakkuk
ff. 244v-245r: The Book of Zephaniah.
ff. 245r-245v: The Book of Haggai.
ff. 245r-248r: The Book of Zechariah.
ff. 248r-248v: The Book of Malachi.
ff. 249v-259r: The Gospel of Matthew.
ff. 259r-264v: The Gospel of Mark.
ff. 265r-274r: The Gospel of Luke.
ff. 274r-280v: The Gospel of John.
ff. 280v-289v: The Acts of the Apostles.
ff. 290r-294r: The Catholic Epistles.
ff. 294r-298r: The Book of Revelation.
ff. 298v-320r: The Pauline Epistles, preceded by a concordance and a commentary attributed to Pelagius.
ff. 321r-329v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect (Psalms 1-76, Psalm 77: 1-27).
[f. 10v is blank].
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 4r-10r: Tables of Contents for the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Kings (1-4), Job, Chronicles (1-2), Maccabees (1-2), added in a 15th-century script.
ff. 249r, 249v (paragraph); 320r-320v (paragraph): Short texts, added in a 15th-century script.
Decoration:
28 large and medium initials in red and blue (sometimes featuring ‘puzzle initials’), with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in blue and red, at the beginning of books and major divisions (ff. 11r, 26v, 46r, 56r, 77v, 78v, 111r, 118v, 127v, 134r, 136v, 140r, 143r, 148v, 151v, 166r, 181r, 186v, 199v, 216r, 217v, 231v, 242r, 245r, 245v, 249v (2x), 259v). Large and medium initials in red or blue with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in red or blue, at the beginning of books and major divisions: 10 with arabesque penwork decoration in red and blue (ff. 71r, 87v, 95r, 150v,155r, 172v, 243v, 248r, 292v, 293v); 50 with ‘curly’ penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 38v, 65r, 103v, 144v, 237v, 239v, 240r, 241v, 242v, 244r, 244v (2x), 247v, 259r, 265r (2x), 265v, 274r, 274v, 280v, 281r, 290r (2x), 291r, 292r, 293v, 294r (2x), 294v, 298v, 299r, 300r, 304r, 307v, 310r, 311r, 312v, 313v, 314r, 314v, 315v, 316v, 317r, 317v (2x), 323v, 325r, 326v, 328v). 20 large and medium blue initials in frames with red penwork decoration, added in the 15th century (ff. 4r, 4v (2x), 5r, 5v, 6v (2x), 7r (2x), 7v (2x), 8r (2x), 8v, 9r (2x), 9v, 249r, 249v, 320r [no penwork]). Small initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in blue or red. Small plain initials in blue or red, many with minor pen-flourishing in the same colour: a few in green (f. 328v). Display script in (flourished) capital letters alternately in red and blue (from f. 186v onwards); once in brown ink with red penwork decoration (f. 239v). Rubrics in red or blue. Running headers in red or blue. Roman numerals in red or blue. Manicules in brown ink added to the margins (e.g. ff. 14v, 15r, 20r); a human face in brown ink (f. 87v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Lansdowne Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002075291", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Lansdowne MS 453: Bible" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002060013
040-002075291 - Is part of:
- Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts
Lansdowne MS 453 : Bible - Hierarchy:
- 032-002060013[0316]/040-002075291
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059471174.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 365 x 250 mm (text space: 275 x 155 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 329 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); only early modern foliation throughout the manuscript.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown speckled leather, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘BIBLIA VULGATA COD. SEC. XII.’; marbled foredges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Unknown English owners: their 12th- to 15th-century marginal notes throughout the manuscript.
‘Thomas Wymbyshe’: his name inscribed in a 16th-century script on f. 320v (‘Thomas Wymbyshe me [?] comp[ar]avit’) and f. 326r (‘Thomas Wymbyshe’). A Thomas Wymbyshe/Wymbush appears in 16th-century documents from Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire; he is perhaps Thomas Wymbush (b. 1490, d. 1550), second husband of Elizabeth Tailboys (b. 1520, d. 1563), 4th Baroness Tailboys of Kyme; both Thomas and Elizabeth are referred to in the will of Edward Knottisforth of Walesby (Lincolnshire), dated 1543 (see Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D. 1500 - 1600, ed. by Arthur Roland Maddison (Lincoln: Williamson, 1888), p. 42).
William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.
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- Publications:
- [Henry Ellis and Francis Douce], A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: n. pub., 1819), p. 126.
- 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.