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Royal MS 5 E XVIII

Record Id:

040-002106112

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000164

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 5 E XVIII

Title:

Theological miscellany

Scope & Content:

ff. 1v–4v: Accounts of tithes, 16th cent.

ff. 5r–6r: Isidore of Seville, Epistula ad Massonem episcopum de lapsis.

ff. 6v–81r: Isidore of Seville, Sententiae.

ff. 81v–92v: Quoduultdeus, Aduersus quinque hereses.

ff. 93r–106r: ‘Tractatus de .vii. gradibus confessionis. Quam magna res sit confessio. et omni necessaria generi humano et ratio ipsa presentis ueritatis commendat. et diuinę auctoritatis scriptura in omni fere sui pagina euidenter declarat. … quę dominus iam in operario mundo a uitiis et peccatis. spiritu sancto dignabitur demonstrare.’

ff. 107r–113v: Fragment of a missal containing the offices for St Augustine and the beginning of those for St Thomas of Canterbury (14th cent.).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002106112

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 5 E XVIII : Theological miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002105724[0351]/040-002106112

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 230 × 150 mm (written area 190 × 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. 114 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation: a⁴ (ff. 1–4); i–x⁸ (ff. 5–84), xi–xii¹⁰ (ff. 85–104), xiii^two (ff. 105–106); xiv⁶ (ff. 107–112), xv^two (ff. 113–114). Quire signatures on the first leaf, ‘i’–‘xii’.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Library, 1983.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. ‘Cirencestrie’ written at top of ff. 5r, 14r, 40r, 50r, 72r, 92r, 102r.

Provenance:

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library, pressmark ‘no. 1152’.

Publications:

Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, ed. by George F. Warner and J.P. Gilson, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921).

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:

Description from Warner and Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections:

‘1. 'EPISTOLA uenerabilis Ysidori episcopi ad beatum Masonum [al Massonam] coepiscopum de lapsis'; cf. 5 A. viii, art. 2. f 5.

2. 'Liber sancti Ysidori episcopi': the Sententiae, in three books, preceded by tables of chapters; cf. 5 A. viii, art. 3. f. 6.

3. 'Aurelii Augustini liber contra quinque hereses'; c£ 5 B. vii, art. i. f. 81 b.

4. 'Tractatus de septem gradibus confessionis', anon.; beg. 'Quam magna res sit confessio'. f. 93.

Vellum; ff. 114. 8.7/8 in. x 5.1/2 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (xi¹⁰, xii¹⁰), numbered at the foot of the first page. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'utique'. At the beginning are prefixed 4 leaves (ff. 1-4) containing accompts (16th cent.), apparently. of tithes, with the names of a considerable number of persons paying them. At the end are seven leaves (ff. 107-113) of a Missal (14th cent.), containing the offices for S. Augustine and the beginning of those for S. Thomas of Canterbury. Belonged to Cirencester Abbey, the inscription 'Cirencestrie' being written at the top of ff. 5, 14, 40, 50, 72, 92, 102. The initials D. M. occur more than once in the margin. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1152'; cat. of 1666, f. 17; CMA. 7950 + 7805.’