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Burney MS 11

Record Id:

040-002236316

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000042

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 11

Title:

Remigius of Auxerre, Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum; Bible (without Psalms)

Scope & Content:

This is a composite manuscript made up of two originally separate parts (ff. 1-53; ff. 54-525). The first part (ff. 1-53) contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum (Interpretations of Hebrew names) of Remigius of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 908), as well as shorter texts and notes added in the 15th century on what were probably the original parchment flyleaves. The second part (ff. 54-525) was written c. 1230 and is a Bible in the Latin Vulgate with scholastic marginal annotations throughout. Psalms are not included in the part containing the Bible, which is perhaps the reason that a list of incipits for the Psalms was added in the 15th-century (ff. 2r-v). The two parts were possibly joined in the 15th century.

Contents:

ff. 1v-2r: A synoptic table with notes, visualising parallels between the books of the Bible, in a 15th-century hand.

ff. 2r-v: An itemised list of incipits for the Psalms and the six ferial canticles, in a 15th-century hand.

ff. 3v-4r: A list of the books of the Bible and the number of chapters in each, followed by a mnemonic for the books of the Bible, in a 15th-century hand.

ff. 5r-53r: Remigius of Auxerre, Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum.

ff. 54r-418v: Old Testament, except for Psalms, with prologue.

ff. 418v-522v: New Testament, with prologues.

f. 523v: A table with the heading 'Modus predicandi', in a 15th-century hand.

[ff. 253r, 525r are blank].

Decoration: ff. 5r-53r: Large initials alternately red or blue, with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Small initials alternately red or blue throughout.

ff. 54r-522v: 10 large foliate initials in colours, predominantly in blue and brown-red on blue or yellow grounds (ff. 54r, 57v, 440v, 455r, 465v, 480r, 485r, 493v, 496v, 510v), two of which incorporate zoomorphic decoration (ff. 54r, 57v). Elsewhere new texts begin either with large or medium puzzle initials in blue and red, with blue and red infill and pen-flourishing (e.g. ff. 95r, 123v, 138r, 147v), or medium initials in colour (e.g. f. 79r). Chapter numbers and running-titles in alternately blue or red throughout. Marginal drawings of Absolom with his hair caught on a branch next to the account of his death (f. 180), and a jug next to the word 'amphore' (f. 368v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236316

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 11 : Remigius of Auxerre, Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum; Bible (without Psalms)

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0011]/040-002236316

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: ff. 5r-53r: 130 x 90 mm (written area 90 x 60 mm, in three columns); ff. 54r-522v: 130 x 90 mm (written area 90 x 60 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. iii + 528 (ff. i-iii and 526-528 are modern paper flyleaves); ff. 1-4 have holes and rust-stains from the clasp fitting of a previous binding; former pagination in ink throughout, now crossed out.

Script: Gothic, written below top line (ff. 5-53); Gothic, written above top line (except ff. 100-102) (ff. 54-522v).

Binding: Post-1600. Gold- and blind-tooled brown Burney binding of lightly diced brown calf; spine re-backed at the British Museum.

Custodial History:

Origin: England; England, Central (?Oxford)

Provenance:

Central England, probably Oxford: the foliate details of the decoration (e.g. ff. 465v, 496v, 510v) suggest an Oxford origin; near-contemporary marginal annotations referring to the 'Glo[ssa ordinaria]’ is typical of academic use common at a university centre like Oxford (from f. 95v onward).

Unidentified owner, 15th century: added material to the beginning and end: synoptic table (ff. 1v-2r), itemised list of Psalm incipits and ferial canticales (ff. 2r-v), list of the books of the Bible and their number of chapters table (ff. 3v-4r), table headed 'Modus predicandi' (f. 523v).

Thomas Hunt (d. 1492), bookbinder and stationer of the University of Oxford.

Clement Canterbury (fl. c. 1473-1480), monk and librarian of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: bought from Hunt on 24 July 1473 for 20 shillings, according to note in his hand: ‘Memorandum quod Anno domini m^o cccc^o 73^o ... in vigilia sancti Jacobi apostoli quo anno sacra duitalis erat C., ego D. Clemens Cantyrbury monachus et scolaris monasterii sancti. Augustini Cantuarie emi hunc librum a Thoma Hunt universiatis Oxonie stacionarie pro quo solui 20ti solidos, in qua empcione ac solucione presens erat dominus Willelmus Westgat monachus ac scolaris predicti monastierii ...’ (f. 4v); note of the price: 'xx.d.' (f. 525v).

The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (St Augustine's Abbey), Canterbury, founded in 598 and dissolved in 1538: given to the abbey by Clement Canterbury on 28 February 1474, note in his hand: ‘... 'Et hunc librum dedit D. Clemens Cantyrbury monasterio sancti Augustini extra muros civitatis Cantuarie Anno predicto ultimo die mensis Februarii' (f. 4v); note in his hand and with his characteristic signature initials: 'Biblia D. Clementis Cantyrbury de librario sancti Augustini extra muros Civitatis Cant.', with initials 'C C' underneath (f. 54r); arms of the abbey (ff. 5r, 54r) (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, p. 43, and Emden, Donors of Books to S. Augustine's Abbey, p. 8, pl. II).

Thomas Norton (b. 1530-32, d. 1584), lawyer and writer: given to him in c. 1553, according to inscription: 'Dono dedit Thomae Norton Thomas anno D. 1552 anno septimo regni regis Edwardi sexti' (on f. 53v). [Note that the seventh regal year of Edward VI was from January to July 1553].

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 2.

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. 43.

A. B. Emden, Donors of Books to S. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publications, 4 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1968), p. 8, pl. II.

Duke Humfrey's Library & The Divinity School 1488-1988: An exhibition at the Bodleian Library June-August 1988 (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1988), p. 99.

St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols. (London: British Library in association with The British Academy, 2008), I: no. 44.

Richard Gameson, ‘Durham’s Paris Bible and the Use of Communal Bibles in a Benedictine Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle Ages’, in Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible, ed. by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 67-104 (p. 82).

Anne Hudson and Elizabeth Solopova, 'The Latin Text', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 107-32 (p. 129).

Eyal Poleg, Approaching the Bible in Medieval England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 133, 218.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Clement Canterbury, monk and librarian of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, fl 1473-1480
Hunt, Thomas, stationer to the University of Oxford, fl 1473-1492
Norton, Thomas, lawyer and writer; Remembrancer of the City of London, c 1531-1584
Remigius of Auxerre, 841-908,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117020049,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/121885360

Places:

Canterbury, England

Related Material:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 2:

‘Membranaceus, in 12mo., pp. 8 et 1066, sec. XIII. Biblia Sacra Latina, except libro Psalmorum, versionis Vulgatae et cum prologist S. Hieronymi, necnon cum interpretation nominum Hebraicorum secundum Remigium praemissa. Praefiguntur etiam manu recentiori scripta, 1. Tabula Synoptica librorum totius Bibliae. p. 2. 2. Tabula Psalmorum cum suis quotationibus, sive verbis initialibus. p. 3. 3. “Regula utilis ad regendum hominem in concordanciis super Bibliam.” p. 5. Prope initium haec, “Memorandum quod anno Domini mo .ccco. 73o, et anno regni regis Edwardi 4ti. post conqestum Anglie 13o. in vigilia sancti Jacobi Apostoli, quo anno litera dominicalis erat C., Ego, D. Clemens Cantyrbury, monachus et scolaris monasterii sancti Augustini Cantuarie, emi hunc librum a Thoma Hunt, universitatis Oxonie stacionario, pro quo solvi 20ti. solidos, in qua empcione ac solucione praesens erat Dominus Willelmus Westgat, monachus ac scholaris praedicti monasterii.” “Et hunc librum dedit D. Clemens Cantyrbury monasterio sancti Augustini extra muros civitatis Cantuariae, anno praedicto, ultimo die mensis Februarii.” In summo paginae 98, “Dono dedit Thomae Nortone Thomas…..anno Domini 1552, anno septimo regni regis Edouardi Sexti.”’