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- Record Id:
- 040-002104031
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104019
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000198
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165150523.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47683
- Title:
- Detached leaf from a giant Bible
- Scope & Content:
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This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries.
The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary on this biblical passage, deriving principally from Isidore of Seville’s Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum (Questions on the Old Testament) and Pope Gregory the Great's Homiliarum in Ezechielem (Homilies on Ezekiel).
The verso contains 8 miniatures in colours, depicting a set of musical instruments, with accompanying descriptions in Latin. The instruments include a psalterium, a cithara, a tintinnabulum, a sambuca, a pennola, a fistula, a bumbulum, and a tuba. The drawings and text are associated with the Epistola ad Dardanum (Letter to Dardanus), doubtfully attributed to St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104019
040-002104031 - Is part of:
- Add MS 47672-47683 : HOLKHAM HALL MANUSCRIPTS.MSS. 47672-47683 formed part of the Library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.…
Add MS 47683 : Detached leaf from a giant Bible - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104019[0012]/040-002104031
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 47672-47683
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165150523.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 11th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 535 x 345 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central.
Provenance:
A house of the Camaldolite Order: inscribed in a 13th-century hand in the upper margin of the recto, 'Hic lib[er] e[st] de Camalduli', and in another hand, 'quaternos xxvii'.
Thomas William Coke (b. 1697, d. 1759), 1st Earl of Leicester, politician and art collector: formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 750; probably purchased during his travels in Italy between 1712 and 1717.
Thomas William Coke (b. 1880, d. 1949), 4th Earl of Leicester of Holkham: acquired by the British Museum in 1952 with 11 other manuscripts from the Holkham Hall library.
- Publications:
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Seymour de Ricci, William Roscoe and Frederic Madden, A Handlist of manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall (Oxford, 1932), p. 56.
T. C. Skeat, 'Manuscripts and printed books from the Holkham Hall Library. The Manuscripts', British Museum Quarterly, 17 (1952), 25-33 (p. 32).
R. Hammerstein, 'Instrumente Hieronymi', Archiv, für Musikwissenschaft, 16 (1959), 117-34.
Francis Wormald, 'An English Eleventh-century Psalter with Pictures', The Walpole Society, 38 (1962), p. 11.
The Holkham Library: Illuminations and illustrations in the manuscript library of the Earl of Leicester, ed. by W. O. Hassall (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1970), pp. 42-43.
Tilman Seebass, Musikdarstellung und Psalterillustration im früheren Mittelalter (Bern: Francke, 1973), p. 142.
Pamela Willetts, 'The seven-branched candlestick as a Psalter illustration', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42 (1979), 213-15.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1951-1955 (London: British Library, 1982), pp. 56-57.
Iter Liturgicum Italicum, ed. by Giacomo Baroffio (Padua: CLEUP, 1999), p. 105.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)