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Royal MS 7 D II
- Record Id:
- 040-002106242
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x00023b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057898825.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 7 D II
- Title:
- Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles related to sciences: 'Hanc ergo triplicem divine philosophie formam etiam in istis sanctis et beatissimis viris arbitror presignatam'.
ff. 10r-11v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, extract from Book 1 chapter 27.
ff. 11v-18v: Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum.
ff. 18v-19v: An incomplete glossary (A to C) of unusual words of Greek origin including interlinear glosses in Latin.
ff. 20v-22v: Preparation of pigments and alchemical recipes, beginning: 'Aurum mollire ut in eo sigillium facias'.
ff. 23r-64v: Cassiodorus Senator, De anima preceded by capitula (f. 23r).
ff. 65r-66r: A homily on the entry of Christ into Jerusalem.
ff. 66r-73v: A lesson on the Gospel of St Matthew with an interpretation of Hebrew names (f. 66r).
ff. 73r-75r: Several comments on ecclesiastical questions, beginning: ''Gregorius. Quocumque modo se habeant subiecti'.
ff. 75r-94v: De singularitate clericorum, dubious attributions to Cyprian, Augustine and Origen. This treatise is titled: 'Epistola Origenis ad clericos de custodia castitatis'.
ff. 95r-100r: Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer, beginning: 'Pater noster: Ad duo nos invitat Christus'.
ff. 100r-101v: Anonymous, Responsio ad amicum, beginning: 'Insipientem doctus interrogas'.
Decoration:
Tables with tinted drawing of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (f. 3r). Diagram of the divisions of philosophy in red and green ink (f. 9v). One initial in red with penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 23v). Initials in red, brown, or green. Modern foliation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106242 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 7 D II : Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0475]/040-002106242
- 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_100057898825.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 125 x 100 mm (text space: 95 x 65 mm)
Foliation: ff. 101 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf attached to a modern paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning + at the end; ff. 1*, 1-2 are medieval parchment flyleaves).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library parchment binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: inscribed 'Liber cassiodori de anima', with the shelfmark 'Cum A. / Dist[inctio] vi. Gra[adus] i.', 14th century (f. 1v); included in the catalogue of St Augustine's abbey of the end of 15th century, no. 415 (see St Augustine's Abbey, (2008)).
Added lists of contents, 14th century (f. 1v, 2v).
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: inscribed with his name 'Joannes Dee' (f. 3r); included in the catalogue of his library, no. 166.
Added list of contents, 16th/17th century (f. 2v).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1*); 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. 8642).
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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M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), no. 415.
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. 185-86.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 123.
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.
Gilbert Dahan, 'Origène et Jean Cassien dans un Liber de Philosophia Salomonis', Histoire d'Archives Doctrinales et Littéraires du Moyen Age, 52 (1985), 135-62 [edition of the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis].
John Dee’s Library Catalogue, ed. by Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson (London: Bibliographical Society, 1990), no. 166.
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 295-99.
Andreas Petzold, 'De coloribus et mixtionibus: The Earliest Manuscripts of a Romanesque Illuminator's Handbook', in Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. by Linda L. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderston-Lovelace, 1995), pp. 61, 64.
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.415, pp. 95, 1922, 1924.
Maria Careri, Christine Ruby and Ian Short, Livres et écritures en français et en occitan au XIIe siècle: Catalogue illustré (Rome: Viella, 2011), no. A11.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1528/?search_term=Royal%207%20D.ii&page_size=500 [accessed 30 August 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.