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Royal MS 13 A XXII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106834
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0003de
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056060355.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 A XXII
- Title:
- Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum; Excerpt from Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica; An added poem on the preservation of St Bertin's abbey at St Omer
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of the Historia Langobardorum (History of the Lombards) by Paul the Deacon (d. 799) followed by an excerpt from the Frechulf of Lisieux's Chronicle describing the Ethiopian conquest including Moses's birth, and a poem relating to the preservation of the Benedictine abbey of St Bertin, St Omer. The scribe who copied the main part of the manuscript (ff. 2v-71r) may have written Royal MS 13 A XXIII (Mauritius, a monk of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel), according to Alexander, Norman illumination (1970).
ff. 2r-69r: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum, in six books with marginal glosses written by an early 12th-century scribe. Book 1 (ff. 2r-13r), preceded by capitula (ff. 2r-v), beginning: 'Septemtriunalis plaga quanto magis ab estu solis remota est'; Book 2 (ff. 13r-21v), preceded by capitula (ff. 13r-v), beginning: 'Igitur cum circum quaque frequentes Langobardorum victorie personarent'; Book 3 (ff. 21v-31v), preceded by capitula (ff. 21v-22r), beginning: 'Igitur aliquanti ex ducibus Langobardorum cum valido exercitu gallias ingrediuntur'; Book 4 (ff. 31v-44r), preceded by capitula (ff. 31v-32r), beginning: 'Confirmata igitur Agilulfi qui et ago dictus est regia dignitate'; Book 5 (ff. 44r-55v), preceded by capitula (ff. 44r-v), beginning: 'Confirmata itaque Grimoald regno apud Ticinum'; Book 6 (ff. 55v-69r), preceded by capitula (ff. 55v-56v), beginning: 'Dum ista aput Langobardos trans Padum geruntur'; ending (f. 69r): 'maxima semper cura Francorum avarorumque pacem custodiens'.
ff. 69r-71r: Excerpt from Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica, chapter 8, beginning: 'Assyriorum .xvi. Ascathades annis .xl. huius regni anno', ending: 'Hec namque ex Josephi decerpsimus Historia'.
ff. 71v-72r: An added poem on the preservation of St Bertin's abbey at St Omer from destruction by fire by St Vincent, St Omer, and St Bertin who appeared in the form of three white pigeons. The miracle is said to have occurred in the time of abbot Odbert (reigned 1000-1012), beginning: '‘Dic suavis cithara, dic citharista'.
Decoration:
One large initial in green with a dragon motif (f. 2v). Smaller plain initials in red. Headings in black ink. An added drawing in margin (f. 57r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106834 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 A XXII : Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum; Excerpt from Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica; An added poem on the preservation of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1054]/040-002106834
- 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_100056060355.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 175 (text space: 210 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 73 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf; f. 1* is a flyleaf of parchment on which a small strip of parchment has been pasted (f. 1*r) with 'Historia Longobardorum' written on it.
Script: Protogothic.
Scribe: Mauritius, monk of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Mont Saint-Michel, Western France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France: written by Mauritius, a monk of the abbey, who signed a part of Avranches MS 58, (ff. 2v-71r), according to Alexander, Norman illumination (1970), pp. 78-79.
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: early 14th-century title to which has been added a contemporary owner inscription, 'Historia Longobardor[um], Liber Sancti Aug[ustini] Can[tuariensis], cum. A' (f. 1v); a 15th-century press-mark 'Di. x. Gra. ii' (f. 1v); cited in its 15th-century catalogue (see Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1964)).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1136' (f. 2r), present in the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 20 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. 8351.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Scriptores rerum langobardicarum et italicarum saec. VI-IX, ed. by Georg Waitz and others (Hannover: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1878), p. 33 [as D* 3].
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. 87-88.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 293, no. 893.
Francis Wormald, English Drawings of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (London: Faber & Faber, 1952), p. 72, no. 40.
Charles Reginald Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 55 n. 5.
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. 45.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 28 n. 2, 37, 40, 78-79, 81, 212, 216, 227, 229, pl. 5d.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1136.
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. 485.
Tristan Major, 'Frechulf of Lisieux’s Historiarum libri XII, I.ii.17 in Royal MS. 13 A. xxii', Electronic British Library Journal, 15 (2014), 1-6, http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2014articles/article15.html [accessed 30 September 2016].
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 30 September 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.