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Royal MS 7 E VI

Record Id:

040-002106272

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000279

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100062971421.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 7 E VI

Title:

Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)

Scope & Content:

This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several folios have been removed: a table of the epacts (used to find a date in the lunar calendar from the date in the solar calendar) for each year is now Cotton MS Claudius C VI (ff. 170r-203r); the original leaf containing a list of benefactors was removed and renewed by a new one containing the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket (f. 73r), the list of benefactors is now Cotton MS Galba E III (f. 32r); the end of the homily De virgine martyre and the homilies for the dedication of Christ Church and the octave are now Cotton MS Claudius C VI (f. 168r), along with Lanfranc's Constitutiones (ff. 168v-196).

The second part, dating to the 3rd quarter of the 13th century, consists of part of the New Testament (ff. 104r-133r).

Contents:

ff. 2r-73v: Usuard, Martyrologium (Martyrology), with additions for Christ Church Canterbury.

ff. 74r-93v: St Benedict of Nursia, Regula Sancti Benedicti (Rule of St Benedict).

ff. 94r-103v: Temporal and Sanctoral homilies on the Gospels.

ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark, imperfect beginning in 15:40, St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the prologue to the Acts (imperfect).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002106272

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 7 E VI : Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible…

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Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 2-103 : Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels
Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133 : Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of…

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[0505]/040-002106272

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

12th century-13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: dimension varies.

Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end; + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf), f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with 'Martyrologium manuscript. Divi Benedicti regulae manuscript' in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 629; Cotton Nero C IX, ff. 19-21 inscribed with Lumley's name and titles 'm[a]rtilogiu[m] novu[m] and 'Regula s[an]c[t]I Benedicti', but bearing a Christ Church shelfmark 'D VII Ga II' (f. 20), perhaps were originally flyleaves of Royal 7 E VI (see The Lumley Library (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: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal appendix 71, f. 2v; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7796 and 7880).

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

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Publications:

M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, 1903), p. 49.

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. 196.

C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 122.

The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 93.

N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), pp. 35-37.

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. 37.

Mechtild Gretsch, 'Die Winteney-Version der Regula Sancti Benedicti: Eine frühmittelenglische Bearbeitung der altenglischen Prosaübersetzung der Benediktinerregel', Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englishe Philologie, 96 (1978), 310-48 (p. 330).

Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 361.

T. A. Heslop, 'The Canterbury Calendars and the Norman Conquest', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Wales and Richard Sharpe (London, the Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 51-85 (p. 67).

St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), p. 1547.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge: University Press, 1999- ), II: 1100-1400, ed. by Nigel Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson (2008), p. 59.

Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1271/?search_term=Royal%207%20E.vi&page_size=500 [accessed 21 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.

Related Material:

From 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. 196:

'MARTYROLOGY of Christ Church, Canterbury, with part of a New Testament, &c., in Latin, viz.:-

1. Martyrology of Usuardus, a monk of S. Germain (d. 877, Migne, Patr. Lat. cxxiii, cxxiv, cf. 2 A. XIII), with local additions for Christ Church, Canterbury. Among these additions the original hand records the obits of Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, and William, Abbot of Fécamp (both in 1108), and possibly that of Anselm (1109). Subsequent entries chiefly of the latter

part of the 12th cent. (but including Stephen Langton's 'ordinatio', i. e. consecration, in 1207), record obits of many monks of Christ Church and other monasteries in confratemity (especially Glastonbury and Faversham). These obits however, were subsequently erased, apparently to make room for the insertion of the epactnumbers for each year in the nineteen-year cycle, but were entered in a separate table in what is now the Cotton MS. Nero C. IX (ff. 3-18), May to August,

however, being there missing. Cf. also the list of benefactors in. Cotton MS. Galba E. III, f. 32. Beg. 'Kalende mensis Ianuarii. Circumcisio domini nostri Iesu Christi. Rome natale sancti Almachii'. The original last leaf was removed and a new one (f. 73) containing the martyrdom of S. Thomas substituted. f. 2.

2. 'Incipit admonitio beati Benedicti ad monachos': the rule of S. Benedict (Migne, lxvi. 215). Beg. 'Ausculta, o fili, precepta magistri'. f. 74. At the end (f. 93b) are added in a late i.5th cent. hand some notes from the canonists Nicolaus de Tudeschis and Guillelmus de Monte Hauduno (al. Lauduno, cf. 6 E. I, art. 2).

3. Themes for homilies on the gospels de tempore (beginning with Christmas) and de sanctis. The end of the homily 'de virgine martyre' and the homilies for dedication and its octave, missing from the MS., will be found in Cotton MS. Claud. C. vi,, f. 168, having been abstracted along with the article which follows (ff. 168 b- 196) in the Cotton MS., viz. the regulations of Lanfranc for Canterbury monks, printed in Migne, cf. 443-516, as ]Decreta pro ordine S. Benedicti, and catalogued in Prior Eastry's catalogue of Christ Church MSS. (see below) as 'Consuetudines Ecclesiae Beccensis'; cf. Journal of Theological Studies, x (1909), P. 375. The themes consist in each case of merely a sentence or two appended to the opening words of the gospel to

suggest subjects. Beg. 'In illo tempore. Cum esset desponsata, &c. [Matth. i. 18]: Que fuit necessitas';-

ends (in the Cotton MS.) 'solennia dedicationis templi'.

94.

4. Part of a Bible in a minute hand of the second half of the 13th cent. Begins near the end of S. Mark (xv. 40) '-dalene et Maria Iacobi minoris', and includes

the Gospels of S. Luke and S. John and the Epistles of S. Paul. Breaks off at the end of the argument to the Acts, which follows Hebrews. Gatherings of 10 leaves, signatures 9, 0, +, double columns. Initials flourished in red and blue. f. 104. On the fly-leaf (f. 1) is a litany, in a 13th cent. hand, beg. 'Te doro, piissime Iesu, tremende, colende, semper adorande', and in the margin a note concerning 'quidam clericus in Burgundie partibus', to whom was revealed the salutation 'Aue, Iesu Christe, verbum patris', &c. Vellum; ff, 133. 131/2 in. x 10 in. XII cent, (exc. art. 4, q.v.). In fine English hands, with initials in colours (see pl. 55). Sec. fol. 'Rome natale'. Belonged (artt. 1-3 with Claud. C. vi, ff. 168-196) to Christ Church, Canterbury, with press-mark 'd. vii. gr. xiii' (M. R. James, Anc. Libr. of Cant., Prior Eastry's cat. no. 291, p. 49). Although it wants the usual inscription, the MS. probably belonged to John, Lord Lumley. Lumley Cakt. f. 89; cat of 1666, f. 2 b; CMA. 7796, 7880.'