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Royal MS 15 B XXII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107064
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000d5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103295.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XXII
- Title:
- Ælfric, Grammar
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2v–3r: Greek numbers and alphabets.
ff. 5r–70v: Ælfric, Grammar, ‘Incipit praefatio huius liber. Ego Ælfricus ut minus sapiens has excerptiones … leoðcræfte’ (ends imperfectly). Old English glosses are written interlinear above Latin phrases.
f. 71r: Remainder of the text copied in a 16th-century hand.
ff. 71v–72r: Fragment of a charter used as flyfleaves, alleging misdemeanours in Sandon, Essex, 1540.
Decoration:
New sections open with three-line initials in red. Headings in red rustic capitals. First letter of each sentence coloured in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107064 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 B XXII : Ælfric, Grammar - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1261]/040-002107064
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101103295.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 265 × 175 mm (written area 205 × 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 81, foliated 1–72 (+ 3 unfoliated leaves between ff. 3 and 4, 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end). An earlier ink series of foliation begins on what is now f. 5r. Quires i–iv are numbered in ink at the foot of the first page.
Collation: i (f. 1), i6 (ff. 2–4), ii–ix8 (ff. 5–70); x2 (ff. 71–72).
Script: English Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbishop of Canterbury: inscribed, ‘hic liber scriptus ante conquestum’ (f. 1v) and ‘finis’ (f. 71r), a hand from Parker’s circle in red crayon; inscribed ’Cor. Col.’ [Corpus Christi College, Cambridge] (f. 5r). This manuscript seems to have been used by Archbishop Parker to make a copy to supply the defect in Corpus Christi College MS. 449 (Ker, 1957: no. 71).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c.1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 5); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection (see The Lumley Library, 1956); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 8).
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://bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Aelfric's Grammatik und Glossar, ed. by Julius Zupitza (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1880) [an edition of the text].
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956], p. 187.
Neil R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 269.
G. H. R. Horsley and E. R. Waterhouse, 'The Greek Nomen Sacrum XP in some Latin and Old English Manuscripts', Scriptorium, 38 (1984), 211-30 ( p. 227, n. 61).
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 172n., 225.
Excerptiones de Prisciano, The Source for Aelfric's Latin-Old English Grammar, Anglo-Saxon Texts, 4, ed. by David W. Porter (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002), pp. 31-33 [on the text].
Timothy Graham, 'Matthew Parker's manuscripts: an Elizabethan library and its use', in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber, 3 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 2006), Vol I: To 1640, pp. 322-41 (p. 337).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 494.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)