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- Record Id:
- 040-002088182
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001453.0x000366
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056661590.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35110
- Title:
- Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita Sancti Columbe
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-9v: Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine).
ff. 9v-28r: Possidius (fl. 5th century), Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine).
ff. 28r-29v: A list of St Augustine's works.
ff. 30r-30v: Historia translationis corporis Sancti Augustini (History of the translation of St Augustine's body).
ff. 30v-31v: Vita Sancti Eadfridi (Life of St Eadfrid).
ff. 31v-61r: Bede the Venerable (b. c 673, d. 735), Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert).
ff. 61r-88r: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), beginning with Book 4, chapter 8:' Erat in eodem monasterio puer trium circiter'.
ff. 88r-96v: Extracts from Anonymous, Excerpta de vita et miraculis Sancti Cuthberti (Excerpts from the Life and Miracles of St Cuthbert). .
f. 96v: A list of the bishops of Lindisfarne, Chester and Durham.
ff. 96v-143r: Adomnán (d. 704), abbot of Iona, Vita Sancti Columbe (Life of St Columba).
ff. 143r-143v: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, related to St Columba and St Oswald, beginning with Book 5, chapter 9: 'Erat autem Columba primus doctor fidei Christiane transmontanis Pictis ad aquilonem'.
ff. 143v-150r: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, related to St Oswald, from Book 3, beginning: 'Siquidem anno Incarnationis dominicae quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto'.
ff. 150r-152v: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica related to St Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, from Book 3, beginning: 'Est insula que vocatur Hii'.
ff. 153r-186r: Vita Sancti Edwardi confessoris (Life of St Edward the Confessor), preceded by a prologue (ff. 153r-v) and by the dedicatory epistle to Lawrence, abbot of Westminster (ff. 153v-154r), beginning of the prologue: 'Multus veterum studio fuisse didicimus'; beginning of the epistle: 'Dilecto ac diligendo et intimis visceribus amplectendo venerabili Domino et patri Laurentii'; beginning of the text: 'Gloriosi ac deo dilecti Regis Edwardi'.
ff. 186r-186v: A fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167), abbot of Rievaulx, De genealogia regum Anglorum (On the Genealogy of the English Kings), containing only a part of the prefatory epistle, beginning: 'Illustrissimo duci Normannorum et Aquitanorum et comiti Andegavensium Henrio', ending: ' illam imiteris ut ista consequi merearis. Adieci etiam de genealogia tua libellum unum quo potentissi[...]'.
Decoration:
Large initials in red or green, some with penwork and penflourished decoration, a few with the decoration in the other colour, one with a face, probably added later (f. 9v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088181
040-002088182 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35110-35118 : Formed part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Add MS 35110 : Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088181[0001]/040-002088182
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 35110-35118
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056661590.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 195 mm (text space: 220 x 135 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 187; ff. 1-2, 187 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Medieval white leather over thick boards; joints repaired; mark of clasps, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'VITAE SANCTORUM'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Durham, Northern England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian priory of Newcastle upon Tyne, founded around 1290: its 13th-century ownership inscription and table of contents: 'Hic est liber fratrum heremitarum ordinis sancti Augustini de Novo Castro. Hic hoc volumine continentur hee vite: Vita Sancti Augustini episcopi magni doctoris, Vita Sancti Cuthberti episcopi; Vita Sancti Columbe abbatis; Vita Sancti Oswaldi regis et martyris; Vita Sancti Aidani episcopi; Vita Sancti Edwardi regis' (f. 2v); erased (? ownership) inscription (f. 2v); a 14th-century table of contents, beginning: 'In hoc volumine continentur hee vite: Vita Sancti Augustini [...]' (f. 2v).
Unknown 16th-century and 17th-century owners: inscriptions in Latin and English in various late 16th-century and early 17th-century hands (ff. 1v, 2v, 187r).
Sir Henry Savile (b. 1549, d. 1622), mathematician and classical scholar: inscriptions in his hand (ff. 1-2v, 3r, 187r) (see Watson, Catalogue (1979)); his sale Sotheby's, London, 6 February 1861 (lot 59) (see Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (2015)).
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed: 'Phillipps MSS 26075' (f. 2v); his manuscript number on a label pasted on the spine; his sale Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1897, lot 241, bought by the British Museum with four other manuscripts for £323.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), pp. 160-62.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 248.
Bertram Colgrave, Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert: A Life by an Anonymous Monk of Lindisfarne and Bede's Prose Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940), p. 31, no. 21.
M. L. W. Laistner and H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 111.
Bertram Colgrave, 'The Post-Bedan Miracles and Translations of St Cuthbert', in The Early Cultures of North-West Europe: H. M. Chadwick Memorial Studies, ed. by Sir Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950), pp. 305-332 (p. 320 no. 13).
Anselm Hoste, Bibliotheca Aelrediana: A Survey of the Manuscripts, Old Catalogues, Editions and Studies concerning St. Aelred of Rievaulx, Instrumenta Patristica, 2 (Steenbrugis: Abbey of Saint Peter, 1962), p. 124.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 133.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 370.
A. C. Anderson and M. O. Anderson, Adomnan's Life of Columba, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), p. 4.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 3 [exhibition catalogue].
Anne Lawrence, ‘The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts’, in Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994), pp. 451-69 (p. 458).
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 13 March 2017].
- 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.