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Royal MS 4 D II
- Record Id:
- 040-002106019
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0000ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056063145.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 4 D II
- Title:
- Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing.
Contents:
ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria.
Decoration:
Two foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of the prologue to St Mark and of the Passion (ff. 1r, 48r). One initial with dragons and human masks in medallions in colours and gold, at the beginning of St Mark (f. 2v). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout the main text. Small initials and paraphs, some with penwork decoration, in red or blue, throughout the gloss. At the bottom of each external columns signs written by or for the scribe.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106019 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 4 D II : Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1925]/040-002106019
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056063145.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1170
- End Date:
- 1230
- Date Range:
- c 1175-c 1225
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 390 x 265 mm (text space: 230 x 160 mm, in three columns).
Foliation: ff. 62 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf attached to a modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + at the end)
Script: Gothic, written above top line.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. 18th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or England.
Provenance:
Unknown 13th- and 14th-century owners: Added chapter numbers in Roman numerals with a pencil in the (?) 13th century (e.g., f. 48r); added early 13th-century notes (f. 59r); inscribed 'Marcus Glosatus' in a 14th-century cursive hand (f. 1r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7777).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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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. 89.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library. 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.