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Royal MS 13 D VII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106879
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000022
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056061197.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 D VII
- Title:
- Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudicae; Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript is the second volume of a two volume-set containing Josephus Flavius's Antiquitates Iudicae. The first volume is Royal MS 13 D VI and contains books 1-14 of the work written by Josephus. This manuscript consists of the last books, 15-20, and includes Josephus's De Bello Iudaico. It is one of the eight manuscripts in Thomson's group I dated by him to c. 1120-1140 (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey (1983), no. 37). According to Thomson, it was written by scribe A working at St Albans at that time. Other manuscripts attributed to this scribe are: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 752 and Oxford, Christ Church 115.
Contents:
f. 1*v: In the lower margin has been added in red and green interlocked letters: 'Incipiunt Capitula quinti decimi libri antiquitatis Iudaicae historiarum'.
ff. 1r-83r: Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates iudaicae, books 15-20. Each book is preceded by capitula, beginning: 'Tempus annorum decem et octo. Sosius quidem et Herodes qualiter Ierusolimam ceperint'. Book 15 (ff. 1r-15v), preceded by capitula (f. 1r); Book 16 (ff. 16r-21v), preceded by capitula (ff. 15v-16r); Book 17 (ff. 22r-44v), preceded by capitula (ff. 21v-22r); Book 18 (ff. 45r-59v) preceded by capitula (ff. 44v-45r); Book 19 (ff. 60r-74v), preceded by capitula (ff. 59v-60r); Book 20 (ff. 74v-83r), preceded by capitula (f. 74v), ending: 'de Deo eiusque substantia et de legibus et cur secundum eas aliud facere permittimur aliud prohibemur. Flavii Iosephi hystoriarum antiquitatis Iudaicae liber vicesimus explicit'.
ff. 83v-211r: Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico, in seven books, preceded by a prologue (ff. 83v-84v), beginning 'Quoniam bellum quod cum populo Romano gessere'; beginning of the text (f. 84v): 'Incipit Liber primus hystoriarum Iosephi de Bello Iudaico. Cum potentes Iudeorum inter se dissederent'. Book 1 (ff. 84v-114r); Book 2 (ff. 114r-138v); Book 3 (ff. 138v-152v); Book 4 (ff. 153r-161v); Book 5 (ff. 161v-170v); Book 6 (ff. 170v-187r); Book 7 (ff. 187r-211r), ending (f. 211r): 'De veritate autem confidenter dicere non pigebit, quod eam solum per omnia que scripsi habuerint coniecturam. Flavii Iosephi hystoriae Iudaici Belli liber septimus explicit'.
Decoration:
The style of the decoration is related to that of the St Albans Psalter according to Kauffman, Romanesque manuscripts (1975).
One inhabited initial in colours and gold, at the beginning of book 15 (f. 1r).
Thirteen outline initials, some with foliate decoration interlaced with human figures, animals or birds, in colours, at the beginning of other books (ff. 16r, 28r, 45r, 62r, 74v, 83v, 84v, 114r, 138v, 153r, 161v, 170v, 187r).
Initials in green with penwork decoration in red, or red with penwork decoration in green.
Rubrics in red with letters in green. Headings in red ink.
Quire signatures in Roman numerals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
036-002106877
040-002106879 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 D VI-VII : 13 D. VI, VIIWORKS of Flavius Josephus, in the Latin version ascribed to Rufinus; in two volumes.Vellum; ff. 218 and i + 211.…
Royal MS 13 D VII : Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudicae; Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1097]/036-002106877[0002]/040-002106879
- 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_100056061197.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 405 x 280 mm (text space 285 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. 211 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end, 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the end; f. 1* is a medieval parchment flyleaf).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum /British Library in-house. Rebound 1971.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: St Albans, Eastern England.
Provenance:
Added, late 12th-century marginal guides (from f. 85v, throughout).
The Benedictine abbey of St Albans: early 13th-century ownership inscription with anathema, 'Hic est liber sancti Albani quem qui ei abstulerit vel fraudem commiserit aut titulum deleverit anathema sit. Amen' (f. 1r).
Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 16th-century 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley, The Libraries of King Henry VIII (2000), p. xxxiii) (f. 1r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 394' (f. 1r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7v; 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. 8338).
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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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. 110-11.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 50, 80.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 157, 167.
F. Blatt, The Latin Josephus, I: Introduction and Text: The Antiquities Books I-V, Acta Jutlandica, Humanistik series, 44 (Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard for Universitetsforlaget i Aarhus, 1958), p. 91, no. 163.
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), pp. 166, 168, pls 148b, 151h, 152a, d, 153b.
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), pp. 187-230 (p. 206 n. 45, fig. 24).
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 32.
Rodney M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, 2 vols (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982), pp. 16, 23-26, 39-40, 56, 73, no. 37.
J. J. G. Alexander and E. Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), p. 5.
Michael Gullick, 'The Scribe of the Carilef Bible: A New Look at some Late Eleventh-Century Durham Cathedral Manuscripts', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 61-83 (p. 78, n. 18).
Michael Gullick, 'Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England', in English Manuscript Studies, 7 (London: British Library, 1995), 1-24 (p. 20 n. 43).
Maylis Baylé, 'Architecture et enluminure dans le monde normand', in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 51-68 (p. 67).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1158, p. xxxi, n. 33.
Kristine Haney, The St. Albans Psalter: An Anglo-Norman Song of Faith (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), p. 309.
Kristen Collins, Peter Kidd and Nancy K. Turner, The St Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013), p. 89.
- 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.