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Add MS 22793
- Record Id:
- 040-002096728
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096686
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000122.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22793
- Title:
- Lives of Saint Denis of Paris and Saint Simeon of Trier
- Scope & Content:
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ff 1-3v: Hilduin, Epistle to Louis the Pious (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina No. 2173); incomplete, begins with chapter 12; the first folios of the manuscript were missing in the 15th century when the content of the book was listed on present f. 1.
ff 3v-5v: Hilduin, Epistle to all the Faithful (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina No. 2174).
ff. 5v-29v: Hilduin, Passion of Saint Denis, Rusticus and Eleutherius (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina No. 2175).
ff 29v-31v: Revelation of Pope Stephen III on the Consecration of an Altar on Saint Denis's Tomb (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina No. 2176).
ff 31v-42: Eberwin of Trier, Life of Saint Simeon of Trier (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina No. 7963).
f 42v: 'Presbyter et monachus Otloh quidam vocitatus / Sancte tibi librum Bonifaci tradidit istum.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096686
040-002096728 - Is part of:
- Add MS 22752-22834 : Count Guglielmo Libri’s collection
Add MS 22793 : Lives of Saint Denis of Paris and Saint Simeon of Trier - Hierarchy:
- 032-002096686[0041]/040-002096728
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 22752-22834
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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Material: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 205 x 140mm (text space: 145 x 95 mm)
Foliation: ff 42 + 12 unfoliated flyleaves, 4 at the beginning and 8 at the end of the volume.
Collation: i-iii8 (ff 1-24); i10 (ff 25-34); i8 (ff 35-42).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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The Benedictine abbey of St Emmeram, Regensburg: note by Otloh of St Emmeram sending the manuscript to Fulda (f. 42v).
The Benedictine abbey of St Boniface: Otloh's hexametric note on offering the manuscript to St Boniface (f. 42v).
The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Erfurt, dissolved in 1810: a 13th-century inscription: 'Liber Sancti Petri Erphordia' ( f 2) and Theele, Die Handschriften, (1920), pp. 104-5)
Guiglielmo Libri, Carrucci dalla Sommaja, mathematician and collector of books and manuscripts, (1803-1869): his sale, 31 March, 1859, lot. 491.
British Museum, unfoliated flyleaf: 'Purchased at Mr Libri's Sale 31 March 1859 (Lot 91)' (f. [1])
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts chiefly of vellum, formed by Guglielmo Libri, (London, 1859), lot 491.
K. Hampe, ‘Reise nach England vom Juli 1895 bis Februar 1896', Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für Ältere Deutsche Geschichtskunde 22 (1897), 607-99: 646-47; 688-89.
Paul Lehmann, Iohannes Sichardus und die von ihm benutzten Bibliotheken und Handschriften, (München, 1911), pp. 114-15.
J. Theele, Die Handschriften des Benediktinerklosters S. Petri zu Erfurt. Ein bibliotheksgeschichtlicher Rekonstruktionsversuch, (Leipzig, 1920), pp. 49-51, 104-5; 168; 169.
Karl Christ, Die Bibliothek des Klosters Fulda im 16. Jahrhundert: Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse, (Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1933), p. 229.
B. Wirtgen, Die Handschriften des Klosters St. Peter u. Paul zu Erfurt, (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Berlin, 1936), pp 73; 108-9
Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis. Novum Supplementum, édité par Henryk Fros, Subsidia Hagiographica 70 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1986).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Denis of Paris, Saint, Bishop of Paris, 3rd century
Hilduinus, Abbat of S Denis, in France
Louis le Débonnaire, of France
Otloh, Monachus
Stephen III, Pope
Symeon Trevirensis, Saint - Related Material:
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This manuscript once formed one volume with Additional 38914A; Manchester, John Rylands Library Latin No. 91; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Theol. Lat. Quart. 364; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Theol. Lat. Quart. 365; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 562; Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, Comites Latentes MS 181. See list of contents on ff. 1 and 5: 'In hoc libro continentur ista: Passio Sancti Dionysii, Vita Sancti Symeonis; Passio Sancti Sebbastiani; Passio Sancti Vincentii; Vita Sancti Burchardi; Sermo in Festo Omnium Sanctorum; Passi Sancti Kiliani, Vita Sanctae Solae; Vita Sancti Syri; Vita Sancti Saturi; Passio Sancti Pancratii; Vita Sancti Columbani; Vita Sancti Wolfgangi' and see Theele, Die Handschriften, (1920), pp. 104-5).
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 38914A