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Royal MS 1 D III
- Record Id:
- 040-002105769
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000370
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058102553.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 1 D III
- Title:
- Gospels, with canon tables and the Exultet
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r–7r: Eusebian canon tables
ff. 7v–8r: ‘Exultet’, added in a later hand (an English Caroline minuscule of the end of the 11th century). Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 169 identifies it as the ‘Norman’ version of the melody, written in Anglo-Norman neumes. Omits section 7.
ff. 9v–11r: Jerome, Praefatio in Euangelio (CPL 0591 E (A)); the first words have not been copied, for which space is left on f. 9r with a B for the rubric, ‘Beato papae damaso hieronymus.’ The list of Gospels is arranged as a table on f. 10v.
ff. 11r–13r: Jerome, Commentarii in euangelium Matthaei (CPL 0590), preface, ending incomplete, ‘Plures fuisse qui euangelia scripserunt … ecclesiasticis uiuis carendis [recte canendas].’
ff. 13r–14r: Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus, ‘Ammonius quidem’, with Gospels arranged as a table on f. 13v.
f. 14r–v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, ‘Sciendum etiam nequis ignarum’
ff. 14v–166v: The four Gospels. Each is preceded by the usual prologue and (except in the case of Luke) a breviarium or table of capitula. The text employs a number of interesting features of layout, including a genealogy arranged as a table on ff. 106v–107r; in Matthew and Mark, the chapters are numbered in the text, with Matthew divided into 28 chapters and Mark into 13. The Eusebian canons and Ammonian sections are indicated in the margin. Glunz, History of the Vulgate (1933), p. xv suggests that the text was copied from Royal 1 A. xviii at Canterbury.
Decoration:
Canon tables, with human faces at the bases of columns, and animal heads at each end of the main arches, unfinished (ff. 1r–7r). One incipit page with an initial in colours with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, unfinished (f. 9r). A smaller initial in colours with interlace decoration and display script, at the beginning of ‘Pater noster’ (f. 23v). Spaces left for 6 illuminated initials (ff. 64v, 66r, 67r, 68v, 100r, 141r). Numerous initials in red, sometimes with penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002105769 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 1 D III : Gospels, with canon tables and the Exultet - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0043]/040-002105769
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058102553.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1030
- End Date:
- 1070
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment
Dimensions: 330 × 200–205 mm (written space approximately 240 × 145 mm, in one column).
Foliation: ff. 168. The modern foliation, ff. 1–166, skips a page after f. 65, and the stub of the final leaf is unnumbered. The book opens with parchment flyleaf (over which a marbled endpaper has been glued), with unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end.
Collation: i8 (ff. 1–8); ii–xx8 (ff. 9–159), xxi8–1 (ff. 160–166; 8th leaf cancelled). Framed signatures centred at the foot of the last page of quires viii–xv in the text hand, with f. 64v labelled ‘vii’ and f. 119v labelled ‘xiiii’. The first quire uses a different ruling pattern from the rest of the manuscript.
Script: English Caroline minuscule. The Gospel text is written by two hands, ff. 9v-119v and ff. 120r–166r.
Binding: British Museum in-house, standard Royal binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Canterbury. Belonged to and probably written for Godgifu or Goda (d. c.1049), sister of Edward the Confessor.
Provenance:
The Benedictine priory of St Andrew, Rochester. ‘Textus de ecclesia Roffensi per Godam Comitissam’, with pressmark ‘.III.’ (f. 9r). After the grant of Godgifu’s manor of Lambeth to Rochester by William Rufus, the book was removed there, and it is recorded in the list of books copied or acquired by Alexander, precentor, soon after 1201, edited by Sharpe and others, English Benedictine Libraries (1996, B81.20). Subsequently pawned and then redeemed by Prior Helyas, c.1200: see Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (1759), pp. 119, 122.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library). Westminster inventory number ‘no. 200’ (f. 1r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542, edited in Carley, Libraries of King Henry VIII (2000), H2.643.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Carley, James P, ed., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000), H2.643.
Glunz, Hans, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon: Being an Inquiry into the Text of Some English Manuscripts of the Vulgate Gospels (Cambridge: University Press, 1933).
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 446.
Hartzell, Karl D., ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 169.
Sharpe, Richard, James P. Carley, Rodney M. Thomson, and Andrew G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B81.20.
Thorpe, John, Registrum Roffense, or, A collection of antient records, charters, and instruments of divers kinds (London: Richardson, 1759).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)