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Davis80
- Record Id:
- 040-003391981
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003391980
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100053605115.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059293683.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Davis80
- Title:
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Glossed Book of Ezekiel
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Book of Ezekiel with Gloss. The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings ( «http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings» [accessed 02 March 2018]) was written by a French scribe in France or England. It may have been written at the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire (founded in 1132): from 1135 onwards Fountains Abbey was subject to the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux at Ville-sous-la-Ferté and guided by Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk from Clairvaux. The manuscript, in any case, was at Fountains Abbey in the 12th or 13th century, as is indicated by a near contemporary ownership inscription (f. 1r), and probably remained there until the monastery was dissolved in 1539.
Contents:
ff. 1r-112v: The Book of Ezekiel with marginal and interlinear gloss, with prologues by St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), beginning: ‘Prophecie tempora tria sunt’; and St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), beginning: ‘Ezechiel propheta cum Ioachim rege Iuda captivus ductus est in babilonem’.
Decoration:
1 large initial in green, with red and green penwork decoration (f. 1r). 2 smaller initials: 1 in red with green penwork decoration (f. 2r), and in 1 in green with red penwork decoration (f. 3r). Small initials in red or green, one with penwork decoration in the other colour (f. 9r). Small initials in brown. Highlighting of letters in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003391980
040-003391981 - Is part of:
- Davis1-890 : Henry Davis Collection
Davis80 : Glossed Book of Ezekiel - Hierarchy:
- 032-003391980[0001]/040-003391981
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Davis1-890
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059293683.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm (text space: 195 x 55 mm, in 1 column [ff. 1r-1v]; 215 x 160 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 2r-2v]; 230 x 170 mm, in 3 columns [ff. 3r-112v]).
Foliation: ff. 112; 1 parchment stub before f. 1 and 1 between f. 90 and f. 91.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. White whittawed skin over wooden boards, protruding leather flaps at the back and tail of the spine, hemmed with green thread; one brass clasp appended to a leather thong from the centre of the outer edge of the upper cover (reaching to the centre of the lower cover, where originally a pin was attached); the spine inscribed in brown ink by an 18th-century English owner: '9/ Comment[ar]y on Prophecy of Ezekiel'; two original thin leather bookmarkers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Fountains Abbey, Northern England, or France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Fountains, North Yorkshire (founded in 1132): its near contemporary inscription: 'Liber Sancte Marie de Fontibus' (f. 1r).
An unknown 18th-century English owner: an 18th-century inscription 'No 9/ Commenty on Prophecy of Ezekiel' on the spine; '9' also on upper cover.
Sir William Henry Ingilby (b. 1874, d. 1950), 4th Baronet, of Ripley Castle and Harrington: his sale, with numerous other Fountains manuscripts, at Sotheby's, 21 October 1920, lot 50; bought by Wilfred Merton for £50.
Wilfred Merton, (b. 1889, d. 1957), F.S.A.: his MS 2, with his dated book-label on the inside upper cover; his handwritten description kept with the manuscript.
Bernard H. Breslauer (b. 1918, d. 2004), of Martin Breslauer Ltd., booksellers: item 6 in his Catalogue 90 (1958), priced at £1200; his typescript description kept with the manuscript.
Henry Davis (b. 1897, d. 1977), businessman and book collector, between 1958 and 1968: his acquisition note in pencil 'Breslauer / 19.2.58 / £1100', book-plate, and shelfmark 'HD M49' on the inside upper cover; The Henry Davis Gift of book-bindings was donated to the British Museum in 1968.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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[Dorothy Miner], The History of Bookbing 525-1950 A. D.: An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, November 12, 1957-January 12, 1958 (Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957), no. 106.
Martin Breslauer, Manuscripts and Printed Books from the Eighth to the Present Century from the Library of Wilfred Merton, F.S.A. and other Distinguished Collections, Catalogue 90 (London: Breslauer, 1958), no. 6, pls V and VI.
Graham Pollard, 'The Construction of English Twelfth-Century Bindings', The Library, 17 (1962), 1-22 (p. 2).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 89.
Mirjam M. [Romme] Foot, ‘Contemporary Collectors XLIV. The Henry Davis Collection I: The British Museum Gift’, Book Collector, 18 (1969), 23-44 (p. 28).
Mirjam M. Foot, 'The British Bindings in the Henry Davis Gift', British Library Journal, 3 (1977), 114-128 (p. 114).
Mirjam M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1978-1983), II (1983), p. 25 (no. 1).
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), p. 267.
'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings [accessed 02 March 2018].
- 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.