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Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
- Record Id:
- 040-002339281
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000656.0x000042
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
- Title:
- Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
- Scope & Content:
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Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume is Royal MS 17 F VII, vol 1.
Contents:
Book 10: Sapiential books (ff. 1r-36v): Proverbs (f. 1r), Ecclesiastes (f. 11v), Song of Songs (f. 14v), Wisdom (f. 16r), and Ecclesiasticus (f. 21r), all without prefaces or tables; Book 11: Major prophets (ff. 36v-98v): Isaiah (f. 36v), Jeremiah (f. 54v), Lamentations (f. 73r, without Jeremiah's prayer), Baruch (f. 74v), Ezechiel (f. 77r), Daniel (f. 92r), all without prefaces or tables; Book 12: Minor prophets, without prefaces or tables (ff. 99r-113v); Book 13: 1 and 2 Maccabees, each with a table (ff. 113v-133v); Book 14: Gospels, without tables (ff. 134-189v); Book 15: Pauline Epistles, with the prologue to Romans, incipit: 'Li Rommain sont des parties dytalie' (ff. 189v-217v); Book 16: Acts, without prologues, with the epistles of James, Peter, 1-2, John 1-3; and Jude (ff. 117v-235r); Book 18: Apocalypse, without gloss, prologue, or table (ff. 235r-241r).
Decoration:
1 large miniature in four compartments, partially in grisaille, colours and gold, with a full bar border with a bas-de-page scene and birds, at the beginning of the text. 36 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille, colours and gold, and large foliate initials in colours and gold with marginal extensions forming partial borders, some with dragons, at the beginning of each biblical book. Sketches for illuminators (ff. 102v, 105r, 110r, 113v). Small foliate initial in colours and gold throughout the text. Initials in gold with black pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titles in gold and blue with red and black pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in red and blue. Catchword decorated with animals or human figures and highlighted in yellow (e. g., ff. 12v, 192v). Cadels and descenders in the form of leaves or animal or human heads (e.g., ff. 87r, 96r, 101r).
f. 1r, Four compartments: 1. Solomon instructing Rehoboam; 2. Solomon ordering three sons to shoot at their father's corpse to test their legitimacy; 3. The Judgement of Solomon; 4. Solomon and three men.
f. 11v, Solomon enthroned with a woman on his right.
f. 14v, Christ enthroned with the Bride seating on his left.
f. 16r, Solomon sleeping with God speaking to him in his dream.
f. 21r, Solomon enthroned, holding a cup in his right, a pastoral staff in his left hand.
f. 36v, Martyrdom of Isaiah.
f. 54v, Jeremiah with a flock of sheep, and with God speaking to him.
f. 73r, Jeremiah reading at a desk with God speaking to him.
f. 74v, Baruch reading at a desk with God speaking to him.
f. 75r, Baruch addressing a group of men.
f. 76v, Jeremiah addressing a group of men.
f. 77r, Ezechiel reading with God speaking to him.
f. 92v, Nebuchadnezzar enthroned receiving sacred vessels from the Temple in Jerusalem.
f. 99r, Hosea writing with three men approaching him.
f. 101v, Joel with flock of sheep, and with God speaking to him.
f. 102v, God speaking to Amos in his dream.
f. 104v, Obadiah addressing the Jews.
f. 105r, Jonah emerging from the fish's mouth.
f. 105v, Micah prophesising about the punishment of Samaria (?).
f. 107r, Nahum.
f. 107v, Habakkuk being carried by God's hand to deliver a jug of stew to Daniel in the lions' den.
f. 108v, Zephaniah holding a scroll and addressing a group of men.
f. 109v, Haggai seated, holding a scroll with the words 'Ave Maria, gratia plena' inscribed on it.
f. 110r, Zechariah writing with God speaking to him.
f. 112v, Malachi holding a scroll and addressing a group of men.
f. 113v, Pompey receiving the head of Alexander, son of Aristobulus (?).
f. 125v, Messenger receiving (or handing over) the letter to the Jews of Egypt
f. 133v, St Matthew at a desk, with the angel, his symbol.
f. 134r, St Matthew at a receipt of custom.
f. 134r, The Nativity.
f. 134v, Baptism of Christ.
f. 135r, The First Temptation of Christ, with the Devil pointing to stones.
f. 149r, St Mark writing his Gospel.
f. 159v, St Luke writing his Gospel.
f. 177r, St John writing his Gospel.
f. 189v, St Paul preaching to the Romans.
f. 217v, An apostle preaching.
f. 235r, St John and the beast with seven heads and seven crowns on horns.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002339281 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2 : Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1896]/040-002339281
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 342 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_17_E_VII_Vol_2 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1357
- End Date:
- 1357
- Date Range:
- 1357
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 390 x 290 mm (text space: 260 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 242 + iv (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves f. 342 is a medieval parchment flyleaf).
Collation: i-xix12 (ff. 1-228), xx12+1 (ff. 229-242); catchwords and bifolium signatures.
Layout: Written in three columns.
Script: Gothic. Colophon: 'Escript l'an Cinquante et six / le douzieme jour de Janvier' (Royal 17 R VII, vol. 1, f. 230r); an acrostic, the initials of which when read backwards give the date 'mile trois cens cinquante sept' (1357) (f. 241r).
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather with the royal arms and a date of 1757; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris). Completed on 12 January, 1357.
Provenance:
Charles V (b. 1338, d. 1380), perhaps made for him as the dauphin of France (1349-1364) and duke of Normandy (1355-1364): a lion used as his symbol (f. 1r).
Thomas Langton (b. c.1430, d. 1501), bishop of Winchester and archbishop-elect of Canterbury, several times ambassador to France (1467-1485), inscribed with his name 'Thomas langton' (f. 242r).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his monogram (Royal MS 17 E VII, f. i verso), a note in his hand (Royal MS 17 E VII, f. 9r); included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6439.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 3.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased for the royal library from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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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 Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9.
Samuel Berger, La Bible française au moyen âge. Étude sur les plus anciennes versions de la Bible écrites en prose de langue d’oïl (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1884), pp. 203, 214, 381, 388.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 245.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 112.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), VI: French: Mid 14th to 16th Centuries, pl. 2.
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. 260-61.
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l’exposition de manuscrits français à peintures organisée à la Grenville Library, British Museum, en janvier-mars, 1932 (Paris: Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits à Peintures, 1933), p. 28, pl. XXXIII.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), pp. 20, 204, fig. 375, 383, 384.
La Librairie de Charles V (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1968), no. 166 [exhibition catalogue].
François Avril, 'Une Bible Historiale de Charles V', Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunst Sammlungen, 15/16 (1970), 45-76 (pp. 45, n. 5, 49, n. 9).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 904.
Patrick M. de Winter, 'The Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy: The Copyist Jean l'Avenant and his Patrons at the French Court', Speculum, 57 (1982) 786-843 (p. 794, n. 31).
Christopher De Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, (Oxford : Phaidon, 1986), p. 148.
Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West, I: The Medieval Book, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), no. 21.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 105.
Akiko Komada, 'Les illustrations de la Bible historiale: les manuscrits réalisés dans le Nord', 4 vols (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Paris IV, 2000), III, no. 36.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxvii, n. 17.
Carra Ferguson O'Meara, Monarchy and Consent: The Coronation Book of Charles V of France: British Library MS Tiberius B VIII (London : Harvey Miller, 2001), pp. 265-71, 332 n. 7, pls 101, 102.
Katarzyna Płonka Bałus, Vita Christi [et] Vengance de Nostre Seigneur Jhesu Christ: Zagadnienia treści, stylu i funkcji miniatur rękopisu 2919 w Bibliotece Czartoryskich (Cracow: Universitas, 2004), pp. 105-06.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 65.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius ofIllumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 22.
Kathryn A. Smith, ‘Found in Translation: Images Visionary and Visceral in the Welles-Ros Bible’, Gesta 59: 2 (2020), 91-130 (p. 92).
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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