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Royal MS 12 D IV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106741
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0002e1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100065008040.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 D IV
- Title:
- A calendar with computus tables; Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of a calendar followed by computus tables and works related to the reckoning of time: Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione.
Helperic's treatise on the computus derives from the second family of manuscripts of this text, which was produced after the Conquest (1066) and has some Norman connections, according to McGurk, 'Computus Helperici' (1974).
This manuscript was perhaps the exemplar from which Royal MS 12 F II was copied, see Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (2015).
Contents:
ff. 4v-15r: A calendar with computus material (ff. 11r-15r); it does not include saints' feasts.
ff. 17r-35v: Helperic of Auxerre, De computo (On the computus), preceded by a prologue (ff. 17r-v) and capitula (ff. 17v-18r); beginning of the prologue: 'Incipit prologus Albrici de compoto Lune. Cum fratribus adolescentioribus nostris quedam calculatorie artis rudimenta'; beginning of the text: 'Incipit libellus Albrici de compoto Lune. Annus solaris ut maiorum constat sollertia'; ending: 'deinceps facilius assequantur'.
ff. 36r-127v: Bede, De temporum ratione (On the reckoning of time), preceded by a prologue (ff. 36r-v) and capitula (ff. 36v-37v); beginning of the prologue: 'Incipit prologus Bede presbiteri in libro de temporibus. De natura rerum et ratione temporum'; beginning of the text (f. 37v): 'Incipit liber Bede presbiteri de temporibus. De temporum ratione domino iuvante'.
ff. 127v-150r: Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione (Epistle to Wicthed on the equinox or on the celebration of Easter), beginning: 'Reverentissimo ac Sanctissimo fratri Victhed presbitero Beda optabilem in domino salutem'.
Decoration:
Two large initials in red at the beginning of the books (ff. 17r, 36r).
Green and violet 'KL' initials in the calendar. Red and green initials throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106741 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 D IV : A calendar with computus tables; Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0961]/040-002106741
- 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_100065008040.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm (text space: 185 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 131 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. i is a medieval parchment flyleaf; 1 unfoliated ruled parchment flyleaf between f. 130 and f. 131.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury: its pressmark, 'Beda de temporibus novus. D. iii. G. ii.' (f. 2r); a 13th-century title 'Beda de temporibus' (f. 1r); a 13th-century table of contents 'Hec continentur in hoc volumine, .b. Albericus de compoto lune/ .a. Kalendarium et tabule/ Beda de temporibus/ Epistola Bede de equinoctio' (f. 3v).
John Childerley (b. 1565, d. 1645), scholar of St John's College, Oxford, clergyman and preacher to the English Merchant Adventurers: inscribed: 'Liber Ioannis Childerley collegii divi Ioannis Oxonie socii' (f. 2r).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his inscription 'Liber Joh[ann]is Theyer Jun[ioris] and a pressmark '25' (f. 2r); his inscription 'Lib[er] Ioh[ann]is Theyer de Cowpershill iuxta Glauc'' (f. 4r); inscription in his hand about the Copernican system and William Gilbert (d. 1603), natural philosopher and physician, 'Stare negas terra[m], nobis miracula narras' (f. 2r); collated Bede's works in margins with the Basel edition of 1563; wrote a table of contents related to Bede's De temporum ratione (f. 131r); wrote the old foliation throughout; included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6474.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 122.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with another 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
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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Montague Rhodes James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 26, p. 507, no. 91.
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. 38.
Charles W. Jones, Bedae Pseudepigrapha: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede (New York: Cornell University Press, 1939), p. 122.
Charles W. Jones, Bedae opera de temporibus, Medieval Academy of America Publication, 41 (Cambridge Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1943), p. 153.
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.
Patrick McGurk, 'Computus Helperici: Its Transmission in England in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries,' Medium Aevum, 43, no. 1 (1974), pp. 1-6 (p. 2).
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 478.5.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1274/?search_term=Royal%2012%20E.iv&page_size=500 [accessed 23 November 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.