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Royal MS 13 A XXIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106835
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0003df
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056060626.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 A XXIII
- Title:
- Ado of Vienne, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus; A list of Roman emperors from West and East; A list of dukes of Normandy; Genealogia regum Francorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript contains a chronicle written by Ado of Vienne (d. 874), archbishop of Vienne, focusing on the relationships between Frankish kings and Bavarians. It also includes lists of emperors and dukes of Normandy in addition to a genealogy of Frankish kings. This manuscript may have been the exemplar of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 290 containing Ado's Chronicle, according to Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1964).
ff. 1v-94v: Ado of Vienne, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus, beginning: 'Incipit Chronicon Odonis Abbatis. Breves temporum per generationes et regna', ending: 'adversa primum molestatus et de honestatus iniuria moritur'.
ff. 94v-96r: A list of Roman emperors from West and East, from Augustus (reigned from 27 BC to 14 AD) to Constantine V (reigned from 741 to 775).
ff. 96r-v: A list of dukes of Normandy, from Rollo (d. c. 930) to Richard III of Normandy (d. 1028), including entries relating to the founding of Mont Saint-Michel Abbey and Suppo, abbot of the abbey.
ff. 97r-100r: Genealogia regum Francorum (Genealogy of Frankish kings), beginning: 'Ex genealogia Priami fuit Merovicus pater Childerici qui genuit'.
Decoration:
One large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v).
Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106835 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 A XXIII : Ado of Vienne, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus; A list of Roman emperors from West and East; A list of dukes… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1055]/040-002106835
- 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_100056060626.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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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: 265 x 180 mm (text space: 185 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 100 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated paper + 2 parchment flyleaves at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Scribe: Mauritius, according to Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (1970).
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: entries related to it in the list of the dukes of Normandy (ff. 96r-v); typical Mont Saint-Michel decoration (see Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (1970)).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: added corrections by an English scribe, c. 1100; title and ownership inscription written by a 14th-century hand, 'Cronica Odonis Abbatis de librario Sancti Augustini [Canterbury], cum. A' (f. 1r); medieval press mark: 'D. x. Gra. p[rimo]' (f. 1r); cited in its 15th-century catalogue (see Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1542/?search_term=Royal%2013%20A.xxiii&page_size=500 [accessed 29 September 2016]); ? fragments of a work on scholastic theology from the 13th century are inscribed on the flyleaves, which were used as pastedowns (ff. [101], [102]); a chain mark (f. [101]) suggesting that the manuscript was chained in a library.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1004' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 19v 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. 8349).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 295, no. 912.
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. 88.
Charles Reginald Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 122.
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.
J. J. G. Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 28, 227, pl. 16c.
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 361.
Richard Gameson, 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Wales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 95-144 (p. 110, n. 54).
Michael Gullick, ‘Manuscrits et copistes normands en Angleterre (XIe-XIIe siècles), in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 83-93 (p. 92).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1004.
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. 486.
Richard Gameson, 'La Normandie et l'Angleterre au XIe siècle: Le temoignage des manuscrits', in La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Moyen Âge, Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 4-7 octobre 2001, ed by. Pierre Bouet and Véronique Gazeau (Caen: CRAHM, 2003), pp. 129-59 (pp. 148, fig. 8, 149).
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), BA I.912, pp. lx, lxxix, cii, ns. 103, 448, 924, 925-26, 940.
Bruce R. O'Brien, God's Peace and King's Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), pp. 220, 272.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1542/?search_term=Royal%2013%20A.xxiii&page_size=500 [accessed 29 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.