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Royal MS 7 D XXIV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106264
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000271
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062970053.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 7 D XXIV
- Title:
- Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down.
ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-century hand.
ff. 82r-162v, 166r-168v: A mid-10th-century, glossed copy of Aldhelm's De virginitate and Aldhlem's Epistola ad Ehfridum (letter to Heahfrith), imperfect.
ff. 163r-165v: Early modern supply leaves of part of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young.
Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106264 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 7 D XXIV : Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of… - Contains:
- Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1 : Fragment of a writ
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v : Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v : Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v : Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
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- 032-002105724[0497]/040-002106264
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100062970053.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 10th century-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 120 mm (text space: 140/130 x 90/100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 168 (+ 4 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning + at the end); 3 unfoliated paper leaves between ff. 167 and 168.
Script: Protogothic, Anglo-Saxon square minuscule, early modern cursive and italic.
Binding: British Library in-house, rebound in 1983.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 399 (see The Lumley Library, ed. by Jayne and Johnson (1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see Catalogi librorum ('1697'), no. 399).
Patrick Young (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian and scholar: added 17th-century transcription of the letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young (ff. 163-165).
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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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. 192.
R. Priebsch, The Heliand Manuscript Caligula A. VII in the British Museum: A Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), pp. 20, 30, 32.
Francis Wormald, 'Decorated Initials in English Manuscripts from A.D. 900 to 1100', Archeologia, 91 (1945) 107-35 (p. 115).
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 178.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 73.
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. 364.
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 4.
Aldhelm, The Prose Works, ed. and trans. by Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979), pp. 11-19, 51-136 [a translation of the text].
Michael Korhammer, 'Mittelalterliche Konstruktionshilfen und altenglische Wortstellung', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 34 (1980), 18-58 (p. 58).
Simon Keynes, 'King Athelstan's Books', in Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes, ed. by Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 143-202 (pp. 180-85).
Michelle Brown, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), p. 24, fig. 22.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 59 [exhibition catalogue].
David Dumville, Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 144.
David Dumville, 'English Square minuscule script: the mid-century phases', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), pp. 133-64 (p. 136 n. 18).
Scott Gwara, 'Canterbury Affiliations of London, British Library MS Royal 7 D. XXIV and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 1650', Romanobarbarica, 14 (1996-1997), 359-74.
J. A Kiff-Hooper, 'Classbooks or Works of Art ? Some observations on the 10th Century Manuscripts of Aldhelm's De Laude Virginitatis', Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages, ed. by Ian Wood and G. Loud (London: Hambledon Press, 1991) 15-26 (pp. 16-21).
Richard Gameson, 'The Decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992) 115-59 (pp. 123-26, 137, n. 94, 158, n. 197).
Mechthild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 143, 170,171, 351, 359-70, 372.
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 7, 21.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 46.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 473.
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 219, 294, fig. 128.
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 243.
Michael Wood, ' "Stand strong against the monsters": kingship and learning in the empire of King Aethelstan', in Lay intellectuals in the Carolingian World, ed. by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 102-217 (pp. 201-02, n. 36).
- 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.