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Royal MS 5 B XV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106069
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000134
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062418435.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 5 B XV
- Title:
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Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis; Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi; Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. i recto-48v [Part 1]; ff. 49r-56v [Part 2]; 57r-64v [Part 3]; and 65r-133v [Part 4]) that were produced between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (see 'Provenance' for the dating of the separate parts). It contains theological works by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430); Autpert Ambrose (d. 784), abbot of St Vincent in Volturno at Rocchetta; John Chrysostom (b. c. 349, d. 407); and Fulcher of Chartres (b. 1059, d. 1127). It also includes readings from the miracles of St Liudhard (d. c. 603), bishop and chaplain to Queen Bertha of Kent. The parts were all produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine at Canterbury where they were joined together, at least, by the end of the 14th century: the manuscript has been listed in a catalogue of the abbey’s library that was compiled between 1375 and 1420 (see St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by Barker-Benfield (2008), pp. 527-28).
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. i recto-48r: St Augustine, Enchiridion (Manual), with a table of contents (ff. i recto-ii verso).
Part 2:
ff. 49r-54r: Pseudo-Leo the Great (Ambrose Autpert), Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum (Book on the Conflict between Virtues and Vices), beginning ‘Incipit Liber Leonis Papae de conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum’.
ff. 54r-56r: Short extracts from St Augustine and St Ambrose.
Part 3:
ff. 57r-62r: John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis (On the Canaanite Woman’s Form of Persecution).
ff. 62v-64v: Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi (Readings from the Miracles of Bishop Saint Lethard).
Part 4:
ff. 65r-133v: Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana (History of Jerusalem), with a prologue (ff. 65r-65v).
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 134r: A note on the Crusades, from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (b. 1529, d.1603), in the hand of John Joscelyn, secretary to Archbishop Matthew Parker.
f. 135v: Religious couplets on the pastoral staff, added in the 14th century (?), beginning ‘Coll[ige] primuro medio Rege punge per ymum / [Collige] sustenta stimula vaga morbida lenta’.
[ff. 48v, 56v, 134v, 135r are blank].
Decoration:
Part 1: 1 large inhabited initial with foliate interlace and zoomorphic figures in colours (f. 1r). Display script (rustic capitals) in red, yellow, green and blue (f. 1r). Initials in red, brown, blue, or green, at the beginning of chapter. Rubrics in red, yellow or green. Roman numerals in red.
Part 2: Large and small initials in red, green or purple. Rubrics in red.
Part 3: 1 large initial in red (57r). Small initials highlighted with red or green. Rubrics in red (ff.57r-62r); large initials in red or green, some with arabesque motifs. Rubrics in red. Roman numerals in red (ff. 62v-64v).
Part 4: 1 large initial in blue with arabesque motifs in yellow, red and green (f. 65r). 1 large initial in green with red dots (f. 65v). Large and small initials in red, green, blue or yellow, some with arabesque motifs. Display script (rustic capitals) in red, yellow, green and blue. Rubrics and underlining in red.
Manicules in brown ink added to margins throughout the manuscript (e.g. ff. 4r, 4v, 29r, 119r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106069 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 5 B XV : Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0314]/040-002106069
- 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_100062418435.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 180 mm (text space: 200 x 110 mm [ff. i recto-48r]; 230 x 150 mm [ff. 49r-56r]; 225 x 150 mm [ff. 57r-64r]; 220 x 140 mm [ff. 65r-133v]).
Foliation: ff. ii + 135 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. i-ii are medieval parchment leaves (previously foliated as ff. 1*-2*; crossed out); ff. 134-135 are medieval parchment flyleaves; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 2 and f. 3; f. 56 and f. 57; f. 67 and f. 68; f. 70 and 71; f. 90 and f. 91; f. 93 and f. 94; and 3 between f. 50 and f. 51; medieval foliation throughout the manuscript (no modern foliation present).
Script: Protogothic (ff. i recto-56r and ff. 65r-133v) and Caroline Minuscule (ff. 57r-64v).
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house: white calf leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold (but damaged); marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: the manuscript is included in a catalogue of the abbey's library (no. 358, with the shelfmark 'D. 4. G. 3') that was written at the end of 15th century (see James, The Ancient Libraries (1903), p. 223). The manuscript's different parts were all written at the abbey: parts 1 (ff. i-48) and 2 (ff. 49-56) are from the 1st quarter of the 12th century; Part 3 (ff. 57-64) is from the last quarter of the 11th century [written by a scribe from St Augustine whose work has also been identified in other manuscripts]; and Part 4 (ff. 65-133) is from the 2nd quarter of the 12th century, after 1127. The parts were bound together by, at least, the late 14th century (see St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by Barker-Benfield (2008), pp. 527-28 (no. 358)).
John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d.1603), Old English scholar, Church of England clergyman, and secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker: a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. i recto); 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. 8658). 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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Montague Rhodes James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St Martin's Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. lxx n. 2.
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, pp. 104-05.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'The Dispersal of the Monastic Libraries and the Beginnings of Anglo-Saxon Studies: Matthew Parker and his Circle: a Preliminary Study', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1951) 208-37 (p. 233).
Charles Reginald Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 77, 123, pl. 46c.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 44.
George Zarnecki, 'Romanesque Sculpture in Normandy and England in the Eleventh Century', in Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies: I - 1978, ed. by Reginald Allen Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1979), pp. 168-190 (p. 187, pl. 27).
Katharine Mary Waller, The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150 (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 360.
Anne Lawrence, 'Manuscripts of Early Anglo-Norman Canterbury', in Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220, ed. by Nicola Coldstream and Peter Draper, The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions for the Year 1979, 5 (Leeds: Maney, 1982), pp. 101-11 (pp. 102, 104-05).
Deborah Kahn, Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture (London: Miller, 1991), fig. 44.
Richard Gameson, 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Wales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 95-144 (pp. 102, n. 28, 144).
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.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), pp. 57-64 (no. 457).
Richard Gameson, 'La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Xie siècle: Le temoignage des manuscrits', in La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Moyen Âge, Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 4-7 octobre 2001, ed by Pierre Bouet and Véronique Gazeau (Caen: CRAHM, 2003), pp. 129-59 (p. 148 n. 78).
Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral: Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200 (London: The Bibliographical Society, 2008), p. 144.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by Bruce C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), pp. cii, n. 104, 527-28 (BA I.358).
- 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.