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Royal MS 13 B VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106843
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0003e7
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 B VIII
- Title:
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Anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes an anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world, relating to Ireland and Wales.
Contents:
1. Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica) (ff. 1r-34v);
2. Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica (ff. 34v-74r);
3. Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae (ff. 74v-100v);
4. Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici (ff. 100v-112v);
5. Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts) (ff. 112v-116v).
6. Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Anticlaudianus (verse in Latin hexameters); Summarium (ff. 117r-146v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106843 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 B VIII : Anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world - Contains:
- Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 1r-34v : Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica)
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 34v-74r : Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 74v-100v : Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 100v-112v : Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 112v-116v : Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts)
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 117r-146v : Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Summarium and Anticlaudianus
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- 032-002105724[1063]/040-002106843
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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147 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_13_B_VIII (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1191
- End Date:
- 1223
- Date Range:
- c 1196-1223
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 275 x 190 mm (text space: 200 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 147 + iv (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves; f. 147 is a medieval parchment flyleaf).
Collation: items 1-5: i,-ii10, iii8, iv-x10, xi8, xii10 (some numbered); item 6, i-iii10. Quire signatures.
Layout: Written in two columns of 36 (items 1-5) and 39 (item 6) lines.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England. Perhaps made at Lincoln under the supervision of Gerald of Wales (b. 1146, d. 1223), in 1196-1198, or after 1207-1208 (see Brown 2002, p. 47).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: ownership inscription, 'Lib[er] S[an]c[t]i Augustini ex[tra] muros cantuar.'; perhaps given by Simon Maidstone, priest and almoner of St. Augustine's (recorded between 1445 and 1475): initials 'S. M. AV. S' perhaps for 'Simon Maidstone Augustini Sancti', with verses beginning, 'Qui faciendo moram...' , in the same hand as the ownership inscription,15th century (f. 147r); included in the catalogue of the library of St Augustine's abbey of c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008).
John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the catalogue of St. Augustine's abbey (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008, p. 939).
Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland, probably included in one of his libraries; moved to the Upper Library of Westminster after his death (see below).
The Old Royal Library (the English royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1116' (f. 1r), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after 1547; on John's Bale select list of c. 1548, no. 33-34; in the Royal catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 21r; 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?), perhaps no. 8316 and 8450).
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 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1883), II, pp. 435-52.
J. S. Brewer, J. F. Dimock, and G.F. Warner, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, I, Rolls Series, 5 (1867), pp. xx-xxii, xxxii-xxxiv, 1-202, 207-404, and II, Rolls Series, 6 (1868), pp. x-xi, xvii, xxiv, 9-152.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), pp. 295, 518.
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. 94-95.
R. Flower, 'Manuscripts of Irish Interest in the British Museum', Analecta Hibernica, 2 (1931), 292-340 (pp. 311-12).
C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (pp. 404, 410).
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 197.
Peter Brieger, English Art 1216-1307, Oxford History of English Art, 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 138.
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.
A. B. Emden, Donors of Books to S. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (Oxford, 1968), p. 35, pl. I.
A. Gransden, 'Realistic Observation in Twelfth-Century England', Speculum, 47 (1972), 29-51 (p. 48, figs 2, 3, 5).
M. Richter, 'Gerald of Wales: A Reassessment on the 750th Anniversary of his Death', Traditio, 29 (1973), 379-90.
A. Gransden, Historical Writing in England c. 550 to c. 1307 (London: Routledge and Kegan, 1974), pp. 245, 356.
D. Walker, 'Gerald of Wales: A Review of Recent Work', Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, 24 (1974), 13-26.
Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales, transl. by L. Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978) [Edition of the text].
W. B. Yapp, 'The Birds of English Medieval Manuscripts', Journal of Medieval History, 5 (1979) 315-48 (pp. 320, 346).
Robert Bartlett, Gerald of Wales 1146-1223 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), pp. 213, 216.
Andrew G. Watson, 'John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a collector of Medieval Manuscripts: A Preliminary Investigation', The Library, Sixth Series, 8 (1986), 133-51 (p. 142).
M. T. Gibson and N. F. Palmer, 'Manuscripts of Alan of Lille Anticlaudianus in the British Isles', Studi Medievali, 3a series, 28 (1987), 905-1001 (pp. 946, 969-70, pl. VI).
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, no. 59 (a).
Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1987), pp. 30, 39-40, 400, 405, 480, n. 132, figs 17, 18.
Alison Stones, review of Nigel Morgan, 'Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285, 2', Speculum, 68 (1993), 213-16 (p. 214).
J. Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting (London: British Library, 1997), no. 52.
John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West (London: British Library, 2000), p. 80.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1116, H4.33-34.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Marvels of the West: Giraldus Cambrensis and the Role of the Author in the Development of Marginal Illustration', in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 34-59 (pls 1-2).
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), p. 19, pl. 17.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 308.
Asa Simon Mittman, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (New York: Routledge, 2006), figs 5, 6.
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 36.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress and Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 31.
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.906.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 9.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 90 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Magna Carta, (online), 10 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica). Exhibited: Magna Carta, (online), 10 March 2015-.