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Royal MS 4 E IX
- Record Id:
- 040-002106039
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000106
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056063395.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 4 E IX
- Title:
- Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160)'s Gloss on the Pauline Epistles or Magna glossatura. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theology.
This manuscript shows the most widespread layout of Peter Lombard's gloss. It has the biblical text written in a large Gothic book script and the gloss written in a smaller Gothic script on the same page, in two or three columns and in alternate lines.
The format of the manuscript, and the quality of the parchment and decoration, suggest that this manuscript was intended for a wealthy abbot or bishop or a well-off scholar (see Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2005)).
Contents:
ff. 1r-202r: Pauline Epistles with Peter Lombard's Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli (Gloss on the Pauline Epistles).
Decoration:
The large foliate initial inhabited 'P' with small lions (f. 1r) at the beginning of the Prologue has some 'Channel Style' features. The script and the decoration suggest a French production. According to Avril, 'Un manuscrit d'auteurs classiques' (1975), pp. 268-69, the decoration might be connected with the second artist of a manuscript containing classical works (Paris, BnF, MS lat. 7936) produced in Paris. Although there are common features between the initials of both manuscripts, 'their historiated initials cannot be ascribed to the same hand' according to Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2011). A Parisian Bible produced around 1200, now Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS theol. lat. fol. 9, is close to this manuscript in script and decoration (see Ayres, 'Parisian Bibles' (1982), 5-13).
Fourteen historiated initials of Paul, in colours and gold, at the beginning of each Epistle, and smaller foliate initials, some with dragons or lions, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the commentary to each Epistle (ff. 1v, 51v, 84v, 102v, 117r, 129v, 138v, 146r, 152r, 155v, 164v, 170r, 172v).
One foliate initial with white lions in colours and gold, at the beginning of the prologue (f. 1r), and one initial with dragons in colours and gold, at the beginning of Hebrews (f. 174r).
Initials in blue, with pen-flourishing in red, and in red with pen-flourishing in blue.
Lemmas underlined in red.
Catchwords and quire signatures, with a separate numeration beginning at the end of quire 16 containing Ephesians (ff. 117r- 124v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106039 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 4 E IX : Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0284]/040-002106039
- 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_100056063395.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 445 x 290 mm (text space: 280 x 175 mm in two, three or four columns).
Foliation: ff. 202 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Paris, Ile-de-France.
Provenance:
Unknown 14th-century owners: added notes in a late 14th-century English hand (e. g., f. 46r); added early 14th-century pencil notes and chapter numbers throughout in margins.
? Henry VIII (b. 1491, d.1547), king of England and Ireland: probably entered in the Royal Collection at the time of the Dissolution, or slightly earlier; may have been kept at Hampton Court or Greenwich libraries because of the absence of Westminster inventory numbers.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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. 93.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 287, pl. 93c.
Francois Avril, 'Un manuscrit d'auteurs classiques et ses illustrations', in The Year 1200: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), pp. 261-82 (pp. 268-69, n. 10, fig. 31).
Larry M. Ayres, 'Parisian Bibles in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek', Pantheon, 40 (1982), 5-13.
C. F. R. De Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1984), p. 35.
Michelle Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 32.
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.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: The British Library, 2007), p. 100, fig. 87.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: The British Library, 2011), no. 105 [exhibition catalogue].
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 28, 163. - 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.