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Add MS 40165 A
- Record Id:
- 040-002091891
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001555.0x0001b3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40165 A
- Title:
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Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments
- Scope & Content:
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These fragments of Cyprian epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX (ff. 1-5) and of an Old English Martyrology (ff. 6-7) were used as flyleaves in the binding of a 12th-century manuscript. They have been removed and bound together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091890
040-002091891 - Is part of:
- Add MS 40165 A-B : Commentaries and theological treatises
Add MS 40165 A : Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments - Contains:
- Add MS 40165 A, ff 1r-5r : Cyprian Epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX
Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r : Old English Martyrology fragment
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 40165 A - Hierarchy:
- 032-002091890[0001]/040-002091891
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 40165 A-B
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment fragments consisting of 2 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40165_a (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 300-899
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: cut to irregular sizes: about 185 x 145mm (text space: 175 x 125mm)
Foliation: ff. 7 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, 1 following f. 5 and 4 at the end).
Script: see individual items.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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ff. 1-5:
Origin: North Africa (Carthage?).
?Theodore of Tarsus and Hadrian, perhaps brought to England by them in the 7th century. In England by the 8th century: insular letter forms, e.g. 'vr' written over uncial 'UR' (f. 2v) (see Schipper 2004, p. 160).
ff: 6-7:
Origin: England, S. W.?
Provenance of all parts :
Used as flyleaves for a 12th-century Latin manuscript, now Additional 40165B: a table of contents of this manuscript in a hand of the 13th century covers an erased portion of the text (f. 3r).
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1765, d.1842): his bookplate in Additional 40165B.
Purchased by the British Museum (with Additional 40165B) in the anonymous sale of manuscripts at Sotheby's on 20th December 1921, lot 504, for £40.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the British Museum (with Additional 40165B) in the anonymous sale of manuscripts at Sotheby's on 20th December 1921, lot 504, for £40.
- Information About Copies:
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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, 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 64-65.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), nos. 297, 298
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 17 [exhibition catalogue].
Joanna Story, ‘Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 66-85 (pp. 74 n. 28, 75 n. 29).
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)