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Royal MS 6 C VI
- Record Id:
- 040-002106171
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0001c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059911875.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 C VI
- Title:
- The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a later copy of the book of Job (ff. 1r-5v), written by an early 13th-century hand, has been associated with the original volume at an early period, as the 14th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r testifies (see Provenance). Lanfranc's (b. c. 1010, d. 1089) notes have been added at the end in the second half of the 12th century (f. 259r).
Contents:
ff. 1r-5v: The book of Job (24:20-42:16), imperfect beginning: 'Non sit in recordatione sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum', added in the 13th century.
ff. 6r-258v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35), beginning: 'Quotiens in Sancti viri historia per novum volumen enodare mysterium typice expositionis aggredimur'. Book 17 (ff. 6r-15r); Book 18 (ff. 15r-33v); Book 19 (ff. 33v-45v); Book 20 (ff. 45v-61r); Book 21 (ff. 61r-68v); Book 22 (ff. 68v-79v); Book 23 (ff. 79v-91r); Book 24 (ff. 91r-101v); Book 25 (ff. 101v-111r); Book 26 (ff. 111r-128r); Book 27 (ff. 128r-142v); Book 28 (ff. 142v-152v); Book 29 (ff. 152v-167v); Book 30 (ff. 167v-185r); Book 31 (ff. 185r-206r); Book 32 (ff. 206r-218v); Book 33 (ff. 218v-236r); Book 34 (ff. 236r-247r); Book 35 (ff. 247r-258v), ending: 'accipit pro me lacrimas reddat. Deo et domino nostro, Iesu Christo, cui cum patre et Spiritu Sancto honor et imperium per aeterna secula seculorum, amen. Moralia Gregorii Papae Urbis Rome, in librum Iob per contemplationem sumpta, expliciunt'.
f. 259r: Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job, beginning: 'Horionas, hyadas, rinocerota', ending: 'ne imperitorum inscitia prefatas dictiones, hoc in opera inconsulte temerare presumat'.
Decoration:
The decoration of the main part (ff. 6-258) is related to the Rochester style and some scenes are 'in the Norman rather than in the Anglo-Saxon tradition', according to Kauffman, Romanesque manuscripts (1975).
Three large historiated initials in colours and silver, at the beginning of each part: Job on the dunghill (f. 6r); a knight piercing a dragon (f. 79v); a nimbed eagle (f. 142v).
Twelve smaller historiated, zoomorphic, or foliate initials in colours, at the beginning of books (ff. 15r, 33r, 45v, 68v, 91r, 128r, 152v, 167v, 206r, 218v, 236r, 247r), including: the Lamb of God (f. 15r); St Michael and the dragon (f. 33v); a bust of Christ (f. 128r); and Samson and the lion (f. 152v). Initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration (e.g., ff. 101v, 185r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106171 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 6 C VI : The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job - Contains:
- Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 1-5v : The Book of Job (24-42)__NEWLINE__
Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 6-259 : Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job
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- 032-002105724[0410]/040-002106171
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059911875.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 12th century-13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 335/40 x 240/50 mm (text space 265/75 x 180/85 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 261 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning; ff. 259-261 are medieval parchment flyleaves).
Script: Protogothic.
Scribe: copied ff. 6r-258v, Rochester scribe 11 according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester' (1980), pp. 202-03.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Rochester, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester, given by Ralph d'Escures, bishop of Rochester (from 1108-1114), and archbishop of Canterbury (from 1114-1122): inscribed 'Quarta pars moralium Gregorii, incipit per R. Archiepiscopum de claustro Roffensi' (f. 1r); 14th-century owner inscription: 'Liber de claustro Roffensis per Radulfum archiepiscopum' (f. 6r); cited in the Rochester library catalogues of 1123, no. 45, and of 1202, no. 24 (see Sharpe, English Benedictine Libraries (1996)).
Added, second half of the 12th century, Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job (f. 259r).
William Fressel, prior of Rochester (from 1509-1532): 15th-century notes related to a charter promulgated by him (f. 260r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 548' (f. 1r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 6v; 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. 7931 or 7932); and in the Catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 6v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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. 145.
D. Tselos, 'Unique Portraits of the Evangelists in an English Gospel-Book of the Twelfth Century', Art Bulletin, 34 (1952), 257-77 (p. 263, fig. 9).
C. R. Dodwell, 'Un manuscrit enluminé de Jumièges au British Museum', in Jumièges: Congrès scientifique du XIIIe centenaire (Rouen: le Cerf, 1955), pp. 737-41 (p. 741).
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 63.
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), pp. 162, 299.
Margaret Gibson, 'Lanfranc's Notes on Patristic Texts', The Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 22 (1971) 435-50 (p. 442).
Neil R. Ker, 'The English Manuscripts of the Moralia of Gregory the Great', in Kunsthistorische Forschungen: Otto Pächt, zu seinen 70, Geburtstag (Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1973), pp. 77-89 (pp. 78, 81, 82).
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 15.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts,The British Library (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 875.
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), pp. 202-03, 270, 317-18, 360.
Christine Grainge, 'A Rochester Manuscript used as Norman Propaganda to Justify the Norman Conquest of England: British Library Royal Manuscript 6 C VI', Friends of Rochester Cathedral Report (1993), 12-19.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B.77.45, B79.24.
Michael Gullick, ‘Manuscrits et copistes normands en Angleterre (XIe-XIIe siècles), in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 83-93 (p. 88, n. 20).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.776.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 469.3.
Gray, Jeremy Peter: The Iconography of the Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts of Gregory's 'Moralia in Job' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1992).
Kevin L. Hester, Eschatology and Pain in St. Gregory the Great, Studies in Christian History and Thought (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007) [on the text].
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/4732/ [accessed 5 October 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.