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Royal MS 6 C X
- Record Id:
- 040-002106175
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0001cb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059472683.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 C X
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more than eight hundred epistles. Here some epistles are missing and others have been copied in a different book rather than in the one in which they belong. The single scribe who copied this manuscript also wrote a part of Royal MS 2 C III and Royal MS 5 D I.
Contents:
f. 2r: Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio, a work which often is prefixed to Gregory's Registrum epistolarum, beginning: 'Credo in Unum Deum omnipotenten, Patrem et Filium et Spiritum Sanctum, tres personas'.
ff. 2r-198v: Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum in 14 books, imperfect, beginning: 'Registri Beato Gregorii Papae Urbis Romae. Liber primus. Incipit mense septembri, indictione VIIII, Gregorius servus servorum Dei universis episcopis per siciliani constitutis. Valde necessarium esse perspeximus'. Book 1 (ff. 2-22v); Book 2 (ff. 23r-32v), beginning: 'Incipit secundus. Indictione X, mense septembri, Gregorius Petro Notario, monasterium Sancti Archangeli, quod Tropeis est constitutum'; Book 3 (ff. 32v-47v), beginning: 'Incipit III. Mense Septembri, indictione undecima, Gregorius Petro subdiacono Campaniae. Vale in castello Luculano sit scelus in Paulum fratrem'; Book 4 (ff. 47v-58v), beginning: 'Incipit IIII. Mense Septembri, per indictionem XII, Gregorius Constantio episcopo Mediolanensi. S[cripta] fraternitatis vestre suscipiens magnas'; Book 5 (ff. 58v-78r), beginning: 'Incipit V. Mense Septembri per indictionem XIII, Gregorius Iohanni, episcopo Ravennati. Pervenit ad me'; Book 6 (ff. 78r-93r), beginning: 'Incipit VI. Mense Septembri, indictione XIII, Gregorius Mariniano, episcopo Ravennae. Sicut iniusta poscentibus nullus tribuendus effectus est'; Book 7 (ff. 93r-107v), beginning: 'Incipit VII. Mense Septembri indictione XV, Gregorius Fortunato, episcopo Neapolis. Cuius rei causa cum matre sua huc compulsa anno preterito presentium latrix venerit'; Book 8 (ff. 107v-118v), beginning: 'Incipit VIII. Mense Septembri indictione, Gregorius Petro, episcopo Corsicae. Susceptis omnipotenti Deo gratias retulimus'; Book 9 (ff. 118v-145r), beginning: 'Incipit nonus. Mense Septembri per indictionem II. Gregorius Ianuario, episcopo Caralis. Predicator omnipotentis Dei'; Book 10 (ff. 145r-156r), beginning: 'Incipit X. Mense Septembri indictione III. Gregorius Romano defensori Siciliae. Nihil proficit sacerdotum culpas ulcisci'; Book 11 [several epistles are lacking at the beginning] (ff. 156r-171r), beginning: ''Incipit XI. Mense Septembri per indictionem IIII. Gregorius subdiacono Iohanni Ravenne. Qualiter Iohannes argentarius indigentibus fideiussiore (sic) fuit'; Book 12 (ff. 171r-175r), beginning: ''Incipit XII. Mense Septembri indictione V. Gregorius Dominico, episcopo Cartaginiensi. Quam copiosa cordis vestry sit caritas'; Book 13 (ff. 175r-185v), beginning: 'Incipit XIII. Mense Septembri indictione sexta. Gregorius servus servorum Dei dilectissimis filiis suis civibus Romae. Pervenit ad me quosdam perversi spiritus homines'; Book 14 (ff. 185v-198v) includes letters lacking from Books 1, 3, 8, 10 and 11 but several epistles from Book 14 are lacking, beginning: ''Incipit XIIII. Mense Septembri per indictionem septimam. Gregorius Paulo scholastico Siciliae. Quanto nos gloria vestra dudum tristes effecerat', and ending: 'honorem quod perceptum vobis moribus servare concedat. Amen. Data Kalendis novembris indictione duodecima'.
Decoration:
Large initials in colours with foliate motifs at the beginning of most books (ff. 2r (x 2), 32v, 48r, 58v, 93r, and others).
Large initial with zoomorphic motifs and birds (f. 189v).
Large plain initials in colours at the beginning of the other books (ff. 23r, 78v, 108r, 145r).
Smaller plain initials in red, blue, or green at the beginning of each epistle. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106175 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 6 C X : Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0414]/040-002106175
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- 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_100059472683.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm (text space: 260 x 165 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 199 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning); ff. 1 and 199 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold-tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Rochester, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
Inscribed in an early 13th-century hand, 'Hic desunt due epistole' (f. 198v).
The cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester, given by Alexander Glanville, prior (from 1242-1252): early 14th-century ownership inscription, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per Alexandrum priorem' (f. 2r); cited in the catalogues of the Rochester library of 1123 and 1202, and also in the earlier fragmentary catalogue from the 12th century.
Inscribed, 15th-century pressmark: 'D' (f. 199r).
Added early 16th century, partial table of content of Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum, book 1 (f. 1r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 755' (f. 2r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 18 or f. 5r; and 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. 7929.
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), II, p. 146.
N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), p. 15.
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. 160.
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), pp. 269, 277, 361.
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: British Library, 2000), H2.841.
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. 469.5.
John R.C. Martyn, The Letters of Gregory the Great: Translated with Introduction and Notes, Medieval Sources in Translation, 40, 3 vols (Canada: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2004).
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/4733/?search_term=Royal%206%20C.x&page_size=500 [accessed 06 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.