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Royal MS 15 A XVI
- Record Id:
- 040-002107025
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059911348.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A XVI
- Title:
- Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels).
ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect.
f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25.
ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Irishman (b. 819, d. 875), Scholica graecarum glossarum, imperfect.
Numerous Latin glosses and two Old English glosses (ff. 73, 76v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107025 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 A XVI : Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman,… - Contains:
- Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v : Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract,…
Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84 : Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum
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- 032-002105724[1222]/040-002107025
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- 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_100059911348.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 9th century-10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 165 mm (text space varies).
Foliation: ff. 84 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; arms of George II; gilt fore-edges; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
This manuscript was probably compiled at the end of the 10th century: two leaves and several lines of part 1 (ff. 7, 59, 67) were lost and replaced by a 10th-century English hand and on the same parchment as the second part (ff. 2r-73v) (see Warner and Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921), p. 146).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, founded in 598: possibly in its library during the Anglo-Saxon period (see Dumville, 'English Libraries Before 1066' (1994), p. 207); in its library in the 13th century and perhaps used as a monastic schoolbook (see Rella, 'Continental manuscripts acquired for English centers' (1980), p. 112 ); inscribed in a 14th-century hand: 'Liber sancti Augustini Cantu[ariensis]' (f. 1r); a table of contents written by three different 14th- and 15th-centuries hands 'Juvencus cum A [...] et enigmata Aldelmi/ Scolica glosarum' (f. 1r); a 14th-century shelfmark D.xi.Gii (f. 1r); included in the late 15th-century library catalogue of the library of St Augustine's abbey, no. 1438 (see James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (1903), no. 1438 and Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (2008), no. BA I.1438).
Patrick Young (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian and scholar: his notes in margin (ff. 59v-61v): one of his notes refers to another manuscript (Royal 12 C XXIII) collated with this one and owned by the earl of Arundel: ''Hunc librum / collatum esse ad ms / codicem co/mitis Arun/dell' (f. 59v).
? Thomas Howard, 14th earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk (b. 1585, d. 1646), art collector and politician: owned Royal 12 C XXIII collated with this manuscript (see Patrick Young's note above).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): seal of a ship (f. 1r) and Westminster inventory number 'no. 413' (f. 2); included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 30r) 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. 8611.
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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Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster, 1879), p. 3.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 521, no.1438.
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. 146.
R. Priebsch, The Heliand Manuscript: Cotton Caligula A VII in the British Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 17.
Francis Wormald, English Drawings of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (London: Faber & Faber, 1952), pp. 44-45, 72, pl. 25a.
Neil R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 267.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 45.
Mathias Thiel, 'Gurndlagen und Gestalt der Hebraischkenntnisse des fruhen Mittelalters', Studi Medievali, 10 (1969), 3-212 (p. 153).
J. H. Pitman, The Riddles of Aldhelm, Yale Studies in English, 67 (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1970). [on the text of the Aenigmata].
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Miller, 1976), no. 85.
F. A. Rella, 'Continental manuscripts acquired for English centers in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, a preliminary checklist', Anglia, 98 (1980), 105-16 (p. 112).
David Dumville, 'English Libraries before 1066: Use and Abuse of the Manuscript Evidence', in Insular Latin Studies, ed. Michael W. Herren (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981), pp. 153-78; reprinted in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 169-219 (p. 207).
Aldhelm, The Poetic Works, ed. by Michael Lapidge and James Rosier (Cambridge: Brewer, 1985), pp. 59-94 [notes and translation of the text of the Aenigmata].
Mary Catherine Bodden, 'Evidence for the knowledge of Greek in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England, 17 (1988), 217-46 (pp. 219, 221n., 230n., 233).
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 149-53, 165n., 292.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.731.
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. 489.
Richard Gameson, ‘L’Angleterre et la Flandre aux Xe et XIe siècles: le témoignage des manuscrits’, in Les Échanges culturels au Moyen Age, Série Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale, 70 (Paris: Sorbonne, 2002), pp. 165-206 (p. 183).
Andy Orchard, 'Enigma Variations: the Anglo-Saxon riddle-tradition', in Latin Learning and English Lore, I: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard, Toronto Oldby English Series, 14 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 284-303.
Carin Ruff, 'The Place of Metrics in Anglo-Saxon Latin Education: Aldhelm and Bede', The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 104.2 (2005), 149-70. [on the text].
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.1438, pp. cii, n. 103, 406, 413, 938, 1378, 1710.
Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015), pp. 30, 32, 36, 55, 78, 173, 388, 420, 446, 449.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) «http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1545/?search_term=Royal%2015%20A%20XVI&page_size=500» [accessed 4 August 2016]
- Exhibitions:
- Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, 19 October 2017 - 18 February 2018
- 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.