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Royal MS 15 A X/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002107019
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165176442.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A X/1
- Title:
- Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
- Scope & Content:
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Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert II (fl. 1153-1555) and the four-year vacancy that followed, and remained in the position until his death (as recorded in the Annals of Thorney Abbey, Cotton MS Nero C VII, f. 82v).
The three leaves were originally attached to another volume, the contents of which are endorsed on it ('Vita sancti Hugonis, Lincolniensis episcopi, et vita sancti Thome, Cantuariensis episcopi, et vita sancta Marie Egiptiace'). They were subsequently re-used as the endpapers of Royal MS 15 A X (ff. 144-146), a 12th-century manuscript also belonging to Thorney Abbey, which contains copies of the Alexandreis of Walter of Chatillon and Cicero's De Amicitia. The roll is now housed separately as Royal MS 15 A X/1.
The original opening of the mortuary roll, comprising the encyclical letter, two Latin verse texts, and the titulus for Crowland Abbey, is now lost. A 14th-century copy of this section is Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 297, ff. 162r-166r (see Dufour, Recueil des Rouleaux des Morts (2005), II, pp. 92-102).
Contents:
Endorsed tituli recording entries for 17 monastic foundations in Northern England, to which the mortuary roll was taken. These are as follows: Durham Cathedral (the entry mentioning a certain Frater Bartholomeus, possibly the scribe); Jervaulx Abbey; the Priory of St Mary's, Neasham; Easby Abbey; Fountains Abbey; Newburgh Priory; Byland Abbey; Rievaulx Abbey; Kirkstall Abbey; Rufford Abbey; Welbeck Abbey; St Andrew's Priory, Holy Trinity Church and St Mary's Abbey, York; Selby Abbey; Pontefract Priory; and Drax Priory.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
036-002107017
040-002107019 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 A X-X* : 15 A. X and 15 A. X*GAUTIER DE CHÂTILLON, Alexandreis, with Cicero's De amicitia and other tracts.Scribbling on f. 90 b…
Royal MS 15 A X/1 : Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1216]/036-002107017[0002]/040-002107019
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165176442.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1211
- End Date:
- 1221
- Date Range:
- c 1216
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 480 x 185 mm.
Arrangement: 3 leaves joined together.
Script: Gothic; Gothic cursive, written by a number of different hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire: originally attached to another volume, the contents of which are endorsed on it: 'Vita sancti Hugonis, Lincolniensis episcopi, et vita sancti Thome, Cantuariensis episcopi, et vita sancta Marie Egiptiace'. Its three leaves were subsequently used as the endpapers of Royal MS 15 A X (ff. 144-146), a manuscript belonging to Thorney Abbey: inscribed, 'Liber p(re)centorie thorneye' (Royal MS 15 A X, f. 2r).
Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568 d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: in the catalogue of his library, (see Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 52 no. 184).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (Royal MS 15 A X, f. 4r) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1698), II, no. 8640).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Former Internal References:
- Royal MS 15 A X*
- Publications:
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David Casley, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 237.
Leopold Victor Delisle, Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe. Siècle (Paris: 1866), p. 549.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 94-96.
William Henry St. John Hope, Vetusta Monumenta: The Obituary Roll of John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, 1500-1532, with Notes on other English Obituary Rolls (Westminster, 1906), p. 13.
New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others, First series, 2 vols, (London: [n. pub.], 1903-1912), II, pl. 72 [partial facsimile].
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. 144-45.
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 (p. 405).
E. P. Goldschmidt, 'An Obituary Rotulus from York, 1405', in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, ed. by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: University Press, 1954), pp. 379-83 (p. 383).
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. 189.
Jean Dufour, Recueil des Rouleaux des Morts (VIIIe siècle-vers 1536), 5 vols (Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 2005), II, pp. 92-102 [edition].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)