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Royal MS 13 A XV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106827
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0003d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103286.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 A XV
- Title:
- Felix's Vita S Guthlaci
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains Felix's life of St Guthlac (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 3723) without its prologue. Latin and Old English glosses and corrections were added later, in the 11th century.
Decoration: Large initials throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106827 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 A XV : Felix's Vita S Guthlaci - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1047]/040-002106827
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101103286.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 0974
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 255 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. 45 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon Square minuscule and Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England (? Worcester Cathedral or the Benedictine abbey of Ramsey), mid- to late 10th century: the body of the text was written by two scribes, one who wrote in Caroline minuscule and one who wrote in Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule (ff. 1r-8v, 36r-38v). The Anglo-Saxon vernacular text may have been written after the Caroline minuscule: ff. 36-38 may have been inserted into the manuscript after the main text was written, and the writer of these folios may have spaced out his words to ensure that the end of his text matched up with the start of the Caroline minuscule text on f. 39r (see Colgrave, Felix's Life (1956), p. 29). The scribe of the Caroline minuscule is perhaps the same as the scribe of Royal MS 8 B XI and Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.91 (see Dumville, English Caroline Script (1993), p. 54).
Provenance:
11th century: Latin and Old English glosses and corrections added.
John Dee (1527-1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: the astronomical symbol of Jupiter, associated with manuscripts in his collection, inscribed (f. 1r).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: his name was inscribed and erased (f.1r); perhaps listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, f. 253 (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.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 6v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see Bernard, Catalogi ('1697'), II, no. 8099).
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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[Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 8099.
Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland: Collected from the Original Manuscripts, ed. by Walter de Gray Birch (Wisbech: Leach & Son, 1881).
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. 84.
Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac, ed. by Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: University Press, 1956), pp. 28-29.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 183, no. 1507.
T.A.M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. xiv n. 1, 16.
Fred C. Robinson, 'Syntactical Glosses in Latin Manuscripts', Speculum, 48 (1973), 443-75 (p. 445).
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History, Studies in Benedictinism, A.D.950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6 (Suffolk: Boydell, 1993), pp. 5, 53-54, 76.
Richard Gameson, ‘Book Production and Decoration at Worcester in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, in St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain, The Makers of England, 2 (London: Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 194-243 (p. 243).
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 187.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)