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Royal MS 15 C X
- Record Id:
- 040-002107074
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000df
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058101812.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 C X
- Title:
- Vita Statii and Statius' Thebais
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais.
Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107074 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 C X : Vita Statii and Statius' Thebais - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1271]/040-002107074
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058101812.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 310 x 270 mm (folio size: 295 x 240 mm; text: 245 x 145 mm).
Foliation: i + 191 (where i is a medieval parchment flyleaf; + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule and Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England (Canterbury?), 2nd half of the 10th century: the first half of the manuscript was written by a scribe who also appears in Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. MS 7585 (see Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (1971), p. xxv). This manuscript's exemplar may have been Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. MS 1627, which may also have been the exemplar for Worcester Cathedral Library, MS Q.8 part ii and Add. MS 7 (see Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (1971), p. 18).
Provenance:
The cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester: included in the catalogue of 1202 (no. 197) and inscribed 'lib[er] de claustro Roff[e]n[si] p[er] Gerardu[m] mon[achum]' (f. i verso).
Flyleaf contains farm accounts from Hoo and Halstow, Kent in a 13th-century hand (f. i) .
13th-century glosses and annotations throughout.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 830'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 35); a note in the hand of the king's librarian, Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652) (f. 140) and in the catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), nos. 8605 and 8622.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- 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), p. 168.
C. E. Wright, 'Paleography and Manuscripts', The Year's Work in Librarianship, 15 (1948), 248-66 (p. 256).
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. 163.
T. M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. xxii, xxv, 4, 18.
P. Papini Stati, Thebais, ed. by Alfred Klotz, rev. by Thomas Klinnert (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1973) [includes edition].
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 361.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 2 vols (Paris: Éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-85), II, 542-43.
L.D. Reynolds, 'Introduction' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L.D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. xxxii.
François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), p. 15.
Mary Richards, Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 78, part 3 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1988), pp. 2, 39.
David Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History, Studies in `Benedictinism 950-1030, Studies in Anglo Saxon History, 6 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993), pp. 54-57, 76.
Richard Sharpe and others, English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: The British Library, 1996), p. 520.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.869, p. lxxxviii.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), I, pp. 331, 1831.
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols, rev. edn. (Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, pp. 213-14, no. 321, III, pp. 2, 6, 8.
Richard Gameson, 'The material fabric of early British books' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 13-93 (p. 72, n. 245).
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: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 497.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)