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Royal MS 5 F III
- Record Id:
- 040-002106119
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000183
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103333.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 5 F III
- Title:
- Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in the table of chapters and the text. This manuscript seems to have been written in Mercia in the late ninth or early tenth century. The margins of the manuscript have been cropped to varying extents on different folios, and sometimes lines of text or possibly initials seem to have been excised from the middle of folios.
Decoration: initials with interlace, zoomorphic, and foliate details throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106119 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 5 F III : Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0358]/040-002106119
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101103333.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0885
- End Date:
- 0915
- Date Range:
- c. 900
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 255 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 40 (+ two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end).
Script: Insular minuscule, English vernacular minuscule, Anglo-Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kingdom of Mercia (now western and central England): script and decoration resemble other Mercian manuscripts.
Provenance:
Added glosses, 11th century (ff. 2v, 3r).
Various inscriptions, 11th century (ff. 1, 7, 8, 17).
'Hacun eor': name inscribed (f. 17); possibly refers to Hákon (fl. 1016-1029), earl (see Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule (2014), p. 38).
Added inscriptions, names, 12th century (ff. 1r, 7, 8r, 16v).
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: included in Patrick Young's catalogue of the Worcester library (see Catalogus librorum, ed. by Atkins and Ker (1944), no. 253).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 2v, 20v, 22v); included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651) (see Bernard, Catalogi librorum (1697), II, no. 6394).
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.
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:
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 4 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 1996), no. 287.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.
Aldhelmi Opera, ed. by R. Ehwald (Berlin: Weidmann, 1961), p. 241 [includes edition as R1].
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, 120.
R. Priebsch, The Heliand Manuscript: Cotton Caligula A VII in the British Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), pp. 20, 21.
Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622-1623 by Patrick Young, Librarian to King James I, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), no. 253.
Francis Wormald, 'Decorated Initials in English Manuscripts from A.D. 900 to 1100', Archeologia, 91 (1945) 107-35 (pp. 113, 114, 118, pl. IIIc).
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 177.
T. D. Kendrick, Late Saxon and Viking Art (London, 1949), p. 28, fig. 2a, b.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 253.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 208.
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), p. 220, n. 4.
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 2.
Aldhelm, The Prose Works, ed. and trans. by Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979), pp. 11-19, 51-136 [a translation of the text].
Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100, ed. by Thomas H. Ohlgren (New York: Garland Publishing, 1986), no. 80.
Jennifer Morish, 'Dated and Datable Manuscripts Copied in England during the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Medieval Studies, 50 (1988), 512-38 (pp. 535, 537).
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 237 [exhibition catalogue].
Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London, 1990), pl. 20.
Richard Gameson, 'The Decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992) 115-59 (pp. 122, 133, 140, 149, 158 n. 197).
Richard Gameson, ‘Book Production and Decoration at Worcester in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, in St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain, The Makers of England, 2 (London: Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 194-243 (pp. 195-96, 238, 240).
Scott Gwara, 'Glosses to Aldhelm's Prosa de virginitate and Glossaries from the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age, ca. 670-800', Studi medievali, 38 (1997), 561-645 (p. 565).
Mechthild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 144.
Aldhelmi Malmesbiriensis Prosa De Virginitate Cum Glosa Latina atque Anglosaxonica, ed. by Scott Gwara, Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 124, 2 vols (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), I, 76, 84, 94, 101-106, 119-20, 122, 141, 146, 168-69, 189-90, 194; II [includes edition of the text].
David N. Dumville, 'English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century' in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), I, 305-25 (pp. 310, 318-19).
Michael Lapidge, 'Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis abb. et Scireburnensis ep', in La trasmissione dei testi latini del medioevo: Te.Tra, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi, IV (Florence: SISMEL, 2012), pp. 14-38 (pp. 26-31).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 462.
Peter A. Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), pp. 24, 38, 98, 101, 178-79, 182.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)