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Royal MS 5 E XIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106107
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x00015f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058105181.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 5 E XIII
- Title:
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Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection: 'Collection Hibernensis'; De remediis peccatorum; A fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch; De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum; Gospel of Nicodemus (incomplete).
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica: '[Can]on in ebreica, regula in greca, [ae]quitas [in lati]na'.
ff. 9r-15v: Sermons: 'De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit. Primus homo qui dedit primam et primitivam Domino suo pro suo peccato...-... et de omnibus insidis diabuli, cui gloria in secula secularum"'f. 11r: 'Quia dum quisque temptatur vitis'.
ff. 16r-51v: Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia: 'Bone opere et elemosina et misericordia. Apud Esaiam exclama, inquid, in fortitudine'.
ff. 52r-68v: Excerpts from the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.
ff.69r-79r: Pseudo-Bede, De remedis peccatorum, a penitential attributed to Bede: 'De remediis peccatorum paucisima hæc que sequntur'.
f. 79r: A fragment of Saint Boniface's Editio: 'Quomodo possumus penitentiam ...'.
f. 79r-v: fragment of the Council of Compiegne (the first two canons) relating to marriage within degrees of consanguinity.
ff. 79v-80r: a fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch, the only known, extant manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England containing this text. Chapter CV is abbreviated: 'Factum est autem cum esset Lamech...'.
ff. 80r-81v: the anonymous compilation De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum: 'Initium omnis peccati superbia'.
ff. 82r-100r: Gospel of Nicomedus (incomplete): 'Factum est in anno xuiiii [imperatoris del.] Tiberii Cessaris'.
Decoration:
Rubrics in display capitals with some letters in red (f. 52). Large initials in brown, some with decoration (throughout).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106107 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 5 E XIII : Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection:… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1919]/040-002106107
- 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, 100 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058105181.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0860
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- Late 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 230 x 145 (200 x 115/25) mm.
Layout: long lines.
Foliation: ff. 100 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, 1 unfoliated leaf of paper after f. 63, and 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule. Written in several hands of continental type.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1983.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, W. (Brittany)
Provenance:
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary, Worcester: included in Patrick Young's catalogue of the Worcester library, no. 333 (see Young, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622-1623, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), no. 333.
Corrections in a 10th-century English hand of the (e.g., f. 80v).
Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 181.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Edward M. Thompson and George F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 55.
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. 116.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 208.
David N. Dumville, 'Biblical Apocrypha and the Early Irish: A preliminary investigation', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 73 (1973), 299-338 (p. 331).
F. A. Rella, 'Continental manuscripts acquired for English centers in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, a preliminary checklist', Anglia, 98 (1980), 105-16 (p. 112).
Allen J. Frantzen, 'The Penitentials Attributed to Bede', Speculum, 58.2 (1983), 573-97 (p. 579, 583).
Lotte Kery, Canonical collections of the early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140) (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), pp. 75, 78.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, Arizona, 2001), no. 459.
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History, Studies in Benedictinism, A. D. 950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6 (Suffolk: Boydell, 1993), p. 48.
Richard Gameson, ‘Book Production and Decoration at Worcester in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, in St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. by N. Brooks and C. Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain, The Makers of England, 2 (London: Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 194-243 (p. 196).
Richard Gameson, ‘L’Angleterre et la Flandre aux Xe et XIe siècles: le témoignage des manuscrits’, in Les Échanges culturels au Moyen Age, Série d' Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale, 70 (Paris: Sorbonne, 2002), 165-206 (p. 186).
Andy Orchard, Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), p. 65.
Shannon O. Ambrose, 'A new Assessment and Transcription of the Canon in Ebreica in London, British Library, MS Royal 5 E XIII', Codices Manuscripti & Impressi: Zeitschrift fur Buchgeschichte, 91/92 (2013), 11-24 [on ff. 1-9].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)