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Royal MS 12 G XIV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106812
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000388
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 G XIV
- Title:
- Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Letters from Rabanus Maurus to Louis, King of Germany (843-876), and to Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt (840-853);
ff. 3r-5v: Table of chapters;
ff. 6r-282v: Rabanus Maurus De universo seu De rerum naturis, an encyclopaedia arranged in 22 books, based on the 'Etymologies' of Isidore. Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856) was abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz.
Decoration:
1 large foliate initial inhabited with human figures and animals, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 6r). Decorated initials with arabesque foliate ornament in blue, red, and green, larger at the beginning of books, and smaller at the beginning of chapters. Small initials in red, blue, or green throughout the text. Rubrics and running titles in red. Maniculae in brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106812 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 G XIV : Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1032]/040-002106812
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 420 x 285mm (text space: 305 x 200mm).
Layout: Written in two columns of 40 lines each.
Foliation: ff. i* + 282 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end; f. i* is a medieval parchment flyleaf).
Collation: i2 (ff. [i], i*), ii-xxxvi8 (ff. 1-280), xxxvii4 (ff. 281-[iii]).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1971.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (St Albans).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey at St. Albans: inscribed 'Hic est lib[er] s[an]c[t]i Alb[an]i, que[m] q[ui] ei abstulerit aut titulu[m] deleu[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', 13th century (f. 6r).
Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley, King Henry VIII (2000), p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 1r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1099' (f. i*recto), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 8v; and 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. 8524).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- 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), II, pp. 73-74.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library: Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 106.
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), p. 277, ns 3, 4.
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. 167.
Walter Cahn, 'St. Albans and the Channel Style in England', in The Year 1200: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 187-230 (p. 201, fig. 1).
Rodney M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, 2 vols (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982), I, p. 48, no. 31.
William Schipper, 'Annotated Copies of Rabanus Maurus's De rerum naturis', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 6, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 1997), 1-23 (pl. 6a).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1099, p. xxxi, n. 33.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 89 [exhibition catalogue].
Raymund Kottje, Verzeichnis der Handschriften mit den Werken des Hrabanus Maurus, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Supplement, 27(Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2012), p. 92, no 514.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine Abbey of St Albans, 0793-1539
Wolsey, Thomas, royal minister, Archbishop of York, and cardinal, 1470/71-1530,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012099862X - Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921):
'DOMNI RABANI MAVRI Maguntiacensis Archiepiscopi (847-856) Ethymologiarum libri xxii'; the encyclopaedic work, sometimes called De universo (in the main an enlarged version of Isidore's Etymologiae), printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. cxi. 9. Prefixed are the letters to Louis [the Germanic], King of Germany (843-876), and to Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt (840-853), and a table of capitula. The letter to the King beg. 'Domino excellentissimo, &c. Audita bona opinionc uestra'; the letter to the bishop, 'Domino reuerentissimo, &c. Memor studii boni tui'; text, 'Primum apud Hebreos dei nomen'.
Vellum; ff. 283. 163/4 in. x 111/2 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (last2). Double columns, in a good hand. Sec. fol. 'et adiutorem'. Large illuminated P, the full height of the column, on f. 6 ; others in colours. Belonged to St. Albans Abbey, 'Hic est liber sancti Albani, quem qui ei abstulerit aut titulum deleuerit, anathema sit. amen' (f. 6). Bears the same 16th cent. owner's mark (initial T) as 2 D. XXXIII, 12 F. II, and other MSS. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1099'; cat. of 1666, f. 8b; CMA. 8524.