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Royal MS 3 A XII
- Record Id:
- 040-002105921
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000083
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 3 A XII
- Title:
- Bede, In Ezram et Neemiam
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–2v: Table of contents, added shortly after copying of work.
ff. 3r–106v: Bede, In Ezram et Neemiam libri iii.
Decoration:
Initials in colours at the beginning of books (ff. 3r, 4v, 35v, 76r), and small initials in red throughout the text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002105921 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 3 A XII : Bede, In Ezram et Neemiam - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0176]/040-002105921
- 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:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1147
- End Date:
- 1176
- Date Range:
- 1147-1176
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 290 × 195 mm (written area 210 × 145 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 106 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning).
Collation: i2 (ff. 1–2), ii–xiv8 (ff. 3–106). Quire signatures, ‘i’ (f. 10v)–‘xii’ (f. 98).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
The Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Cirencester, written by canon Fulk during the abbacy of Andrew (1147/49-1176): inscribed, ‘[L]iber sancte Marie de Cirecestr’. D’ Andree Abbatis secundi tempore scriptus per manum D’ Fulconis canonici postea prioris D’ Alexandro de Weleue tunc Cantore’ (f. 1); noted by John Leland c.1536–40 (see J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea: Cum Thomæ Hearnii præfatione notis et indice ad editionem primam, 6 vols (London: Richardson, 1770), IV, p. 158].
Provenance:
Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 126' (f. 1r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 and in the select list of works noted by John Bale of c.1548. A seal of a red ship, 17th century (f. 1).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner, (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 72.
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. 70.
N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960) p. 44.
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. 52.
A.G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 864.
The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, ed. by. T. Webber and A. G. Watson, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 6 (London: The British Library, 1998), A9.4.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), pp. xliv, xxxix n. 60, H2.619, H4.2.
Andrew N.J. Dunning, ‘Alexander Neckam’s Manuscripts and the Augustinian Canons of Oxford and Cirencester’ (unpublished PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2016) .
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, 1117-1539
- Related Material:
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Description from the Catalogue of western manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's collections:
‘EXPOSITIO allegorica Bede presbiteri in prophetam Ezram', in three books. The preface is omitted. Beg. 'Cunctis legentibus liquet domum siue templum Domini, (Migne, Patrologia, xci. 807). Preceded (in a different, but contemporary, hand, and on leaves not included in the quire-numeration) by a table of capitula (ff. 1, 2). Vellum; ff. 106. II in. x 7 1/4 in. XII cent, (1147-1176 Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'dum confortat' or (text) ' Si autem'. Initials of books decorated in colours. Belonged to Cirencester Abbey, 'Liber sancte Marie de Cirecestria. D. Andree abbatis secundi [1147-1176] tempore scriptus per manum D. Fulconis canonici postea prioris, D. Alexandro de Weleue tunc cantore' (f. 1) For f. 35 b see pl. 28 and for f. 44 the Palaeographical Society's Facsimiles, Ser. II, Pl. 72. On f. I is a Seal with the device of a ship, and the old Royal press-mark 'no. 126'(in cat. of 154z, Add. MS. 25469, f. 25).’