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Royal MS 6 B VII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106157
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0001b9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058107792.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 B VII
- Title:
- Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r).
Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) and a human and a beast in foliate decoration (f. 4r), in red, blue, and black. Display capitals in red, blue, green, and black (ff. 1r, 3v-4r, 53r). Marginal sketch of a head (f. 6v) and a fish (f. 21r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106157 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 6 B VII : Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0396]/040-002106157
- 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_100058107792.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 11th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment and ink.
Dimensions: binding 315 x 255 mm (folio 300 x 200 mm; text 230 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 55 (where i is a medieval parchment flyleaf + 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the end + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Binding: BM/BL in-house, rebound in 1983.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
Exeter: list of relics added in the 12th century (ff. 54v-55r). The list is close to one which claims to describe relics given by King Æthelstan to a church in Exeter, contained in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2.16.
Later medieval inscriptions added (ff. i, 22v).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 63 ' (f. 1r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 24).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- 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. 136; IV, pl. 46a.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 255.
T. A. M. Bishop, 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part III, MSS connected with Exeter', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, II.2 (1963), 192-99 (pp. 198-99).
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. 83.
Louis Goossens, The Old English Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Library 1650 (Aldhelm's 'De laudibus virginitatis') (Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974), p. 17.
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].
Patrick Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth Century Cultural History (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), pp. 6, 26, 171, 173, 190-98.
D. R. Howlett, 'Aldhelm and Irish Learning', Bulletin du Cange, 52 (1994), 37-76.
Scott Gwara, 'Unpublished OE Inked Glosses from MSS of Aldhelm's Prosa de Virginitate', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 95.3 (1994), 267-71 (pp. 268-69).
Richard Gameson, ‘Manuscrits normands à Exeter aux XIe et XIIe siècle’ in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 107-27 (pp. 115n, 124).
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c.1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 516.
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 21-22, 108, 342.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.595, H4.109.
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. 466.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)