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Royal MS 7 C XII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106235
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000235
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060441469.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 7 C XII
- Title:
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Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
- Scope & Content:
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This volume includes three parts:
ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin;
ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English;
ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-century copies of extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche, Gospel of Nicodemus, extracts from Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum, in Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106235 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 7 C XII : Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum,… - Contains:
- Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 2r-3v : Fragments of canon tables
Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v : Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 219r-231v : Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments…
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- 032-002105724[0470]/040-002106235
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060441469.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0695
- End Date:
- 1200
- Date Range:
- c 700 to 2nd half of 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 325 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 231 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 2 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the end; f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf; ff. 164 and 169 are medieval parchment slips attached to leaves).
Script: Insular majuscule, English vernacular minuscule, Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Thomas Wolsey (b. circa 1470, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: inscribed 'T. Car[dina]lis Ebor[acensis]' (f. 2r).
Robert Beale, perhaps to be identified with Robert Beale (b. 1541, d. 1601), clerk to the Council c. 1572-1601: a inscribed with his name (f. 4r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see Bernard, Catalogi librorum (1697), no. 8199); St James’s Palace library pressmark, 'Scrin. XIV.I' (f. 1v).
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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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8199
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, pp. 180-81.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 877.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J.P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. lii.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives, preface by David Starkey (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 80-81, pl. 74.
Bernard Meehan, ‘The Royal-Otho-Corpus / Cambridge-London / Parker-Cotton-Wolsey Gospels’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 16-27 (pp. 16-20, 22-3, 25-6; figs 2.3, 2.6-7).
Joanna Story, ‘Insular manuscripts in Carolingian Francia’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 66-85 (p. 73 n. 21).
Jonathan Wilcox, ‘The Wolf at work: uncovering Wulfstan’s compositional method’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 141-53 (pp. 151-2; fig. 10.7).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)