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Royal MS 6 C I
- Record Id:
- 040-002106166
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0001c2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 C I
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library.
ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo... Omni desiderio desideravi'.
ff. 3v-162v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, written in Latin and arranged in 20 books, with a brief preface occuring twice, before and after the table of contents (ff. 3v-4r); the preface, beginning, 'En tibi sicut pollicitus sum misi opus'; the main text, beginning, 'Disciplina a discendo nomen accepit'.
Decoration:
Initials in red, green, purple, or yellow throughout, some with arabesque decoration (ff. 35v, 40v, 93r, 98r, 103r, 110v, 123r, 134v).
Three coloured diagrams (ff. 30r, 78v, 108v).
Figures in the text (f. 122v), and symbols and figures explained in the text, highlighted in green (ff. 9r-9v, 25v-26v).
The subjects of the diagrams are as follows:
f. 30r: A diagram of the positions of the moon and drawings of the phases of the moon.
f. 78v: A diagram of affinity.
f. 108v: A diagram of a 'T-O' (tripartite) map of the inhabited world, showing the relative positions of the three known continents (Asia, Europa, and Africa).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106166 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 6 C I : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0405]/040-002106166
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_6_C_I (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 235 mm (text space: 255 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Collation: Gatherings of 8 leaves.
Layout: Written in a single column of 34 lines.
Script: Caroline miniscule, probably written by 3 scribes.
Binding: British Library in-house. Brown half-leather binding, with the Royal arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; rebound 1985.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: shelfmark 'DI. V Ga. IIII', altered by erasure and addition from 'D. VI. G. III', with a title 'Ysidorus ethimologiarum. Cum A', and an ownership inscription 'Liber S[an]c[t]i Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1r); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.
The Old Royal Library (English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1r); 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. 8603).
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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M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, University Press, 1903), p. 517.
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. 143.
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1965, a facsimile of the edition of 1906-09), III, p. 297.
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. 44.
Margaret Gibson, 'Lanfranc's Notes on Patristic Texts', Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 22 (1971) 435-50 (p. 442).
Anne Lawrence, ‘Manuscripts of Early Anglo-Norman Canterbury’, in Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220, ed. by Nicola Coldstream and Peter Draper, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 5, 1979 (Maney and Son, Leeds, 1982), pp. 101-11 (p. 102).
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).
P. D. A. Harvey, Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map (London: British Library, 1996), pl. on p. 21.
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), no. 469.
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).
L'Edition Critique des Oeuvres D'Isidore de Seville: Les Recensions Multiples, ed. by A Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi et J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008) pp. 195-230.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), BA I.427, pp. cii, n. 104, 528.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 88 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)