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Royal MS 10 A XIII/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003352710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100036525622.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059472438.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 10 A XIII/1
- Title:
- Miniature of St Dunstan as a bishop
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is part of Royal MS 10 A XIII, now kept separately.
Contents and Decoration:
A prefatory miniature of St Dunstan (f. 2) is painted on a singleton and is now kept separately from the manuscript containing Smaragdus, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti and mounted in double-sided glass.
f. 2r: Inscribed title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova' with a reference sign repeated at the beginning of the text (f. 3r), a shelfmark, 'D. III. g. XII, an ownership inscription of John Lumley, and an offset of a miniature from f. 2v.
f. 2v: Miniature of Dunstan as a bishop, writing a commentary of the Rule of Saint Benedict, with an inscription 'S[an]c[tu]s Dunstanus'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-003352710 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 10 A XIII/1 : Miniature of St Dunstan as a bishop - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1930]/040-003352710
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059472438.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment. Single folio mounted in double-sided window.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm (text space 160 x 110 mm).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed [under erasure] 'Liber Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (Royal MS 10 A XIII, f. 1r), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (Royal MS 10 A XIII, f. 2r); a reference sign on f. 1r repeated on f. 3r; included in the early 14th-century catalogue of Henry of Eastry (d. 1331), prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, no. 139.
Added foliation and chapter numbers, 14th century, throughout. The same hand has added to the table of chapters the number of folios of every chapter (Royal MS 10 A XIII, ff. 26r-27r).
Thomas Cranmer (b. 1489, d. 1556), archbishop of Canterbury: inscribed with his name (Royal MS 10 A XIII, f. 3r).
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (Royal MS 10 A XIII, f. 2r); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 319 (see The Lumley Library, (1956)); his library acquired by 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 catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, Royal MS 10 A XIII, f. 4v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Former Internal References:
- Royal MS 10 A XIII
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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Joseph Strutt, Horda Angel-cynnan: or a Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, etc. of the Inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Saxons till the reign of Henry the Eighth, 3 vols (London: White, 1775-1776), II (1775), pl. II, 39, 40.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 31.
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. 309.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1926), p. 89, pl. 59a.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art gathered from Various Departments and held in the Prints and Drawings Gallery (London: British Museum, 1934), no. 104.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 112, 122, pl. 68a.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 66.
Paul Meyvaert, 'Towards a History of The Textual Transmission of the Regula S. Benedicti', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 17 (1963), 83-106 (p. 102, n. 77).
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. 37.
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 92.
English Romanesque Art 1066-1200, Hayward Gallery, London 5 April-8 July 1984 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984), no. 71 [exhibition catalogue].
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism AD 950-1030 (Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993), pp. 8 n. 4; 98 n. 77.
Mildred Budny and Timothy Graham, 'Dunstan as Hagiographical Subject or Osbern as Author? The Scribal Portrait in an Early Copy of Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani', Gesta, 32 (1993), 83-98 (p. 88, fig. 7).
David G. Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer (Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996), pp. 183-84, 259.
Asa Simon Mittman, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (New York: Routledge, 2006), pl. 9.3.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), pp. 1723-24.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 101 [exhibition catalogue].
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1272/?search_term=Royal%2010%20A.xiii&page_size=500 [accessed 27 September 2016].
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), p. 163.
- 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.