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Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Record Id:

040-003320214

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100034699632.0x000001

LARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Title:

Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in Psalmos

Scope & Content:

This manuscript comprises two volumes of what was originally a set of three separate volumes. Only the first two volumes are now known to have survived. The two volumes are now bound together. Each volume contains a commentary for 50 Psalms.

Contents:

Royal MS 2 E XIII:

ff. 1r-121v: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms). Psalms 1 to 50.

Royal MS 2 E XIV:

ff. 1r-137v: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos. Psalms 50 to 100.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-003320214

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV : Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in Psalmos

Contains:

Royal MS 2 E XIII : Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Royal MS 2 E XIV : Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1923]/040-003320214

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0975

End Date:

0999

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 345 x 245 mm (text space: 250 x 150 mm).

Foliation: i + ff. 121 + i* + ff. 137 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); f. i is a parchment flyleaf at the beginning; f. i* is a former flyleaf before the second part.

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. Parchment binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Originally two volumes, each containing the commentary on fifty Psalms; the third part, containing the last fifty, is not known, and the two that remain are bound up together into a single volume.

Thomas Cranmer (b. 1489, d. 1556), archbishop of Canterbury: inscribed with his name (Royal MS 2 E XIII f. 1r and Royal MS 2 E XIV f. 1r).

John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (Royal MS 2 E XIII f. 1r); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection Royal MS 2 E XIII as no. 429 and Royal MS 2 E XIV as no. 866 (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: in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7843).

In 1734, when Casley's catalogue was published, the two volumes were still separate, and Royal MS 2 E XIII contained as flyleaves at the beginning two leaves of Sedulius' poem on Luke i, of the 8th century (now no longer part of this manuscript), and at the end two leaves of a commentary on Judges 7 of the 6th century (now no longer part of this manuscript) (see David Casley, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library (1734), p. 37).

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

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Publications:

B. Quaritch, 'Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, 1489-1556', in Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors (London: Quaritch, 1892), p. 7.

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), I, p. 65.

The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), pp. 75, 114.

David G. Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer (Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996), pp. 177, 258.

Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 453.

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.

Related Material:

From 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), I, p. 65:

'2 E. xiii, xiv 'BREVIARIUM sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in Psalterio cf. description Of 2 D. xxxiii. Imperfect, wanting the commentary on Psalms ci-cl. Vellum; ff. i+121, i+136. 13 in. x9 1/4 in. Late X cent.; the last two leaves of xiii and the last leaf of XIV in a hand of XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves ; the earlier quires are lettered at the end(a-g and i),and marked 'cor[rectus]'. Originally two volumes, each containing the commentary on fifty Psalms; the third part, containing the last fifty, is lost, and the two which remain are bound up together into a single volume. In 1734, when Casley's catalogue was made, they were still separate, and the first part contained as fly-leaves at the beginning two leaves of Sedulius' poem on Luke i, of the 8th cent., and at the end two leaves of a commentary on judges vii, of the 6th cent. These have now disappeared, having no doubt been removed when the two parts were bound together. Belonged to Archbishop Cranmer (XIII, f. 1, xiv, f. 1) and John, Lord Lumley (xiii, f. 1); neither name is autograph. Cat. of 1666, f. 5; CMA. 7843.'