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Davis386
- Record Id:
- 040-003394565
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003391980
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055601087.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100065021033.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Davis386
- Title:
- The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It features a Parisian Romanesque binding by the so-called ‘Starry Griffin’ binder, and historiated initials by the so-called ‘Almagest’ workshop, named after a copy of Ptolomy's (b. c. 100, d. c. 170 ) Almagest: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 16200 (see De Hamel, Glossed Books (1984), pp. 77, 82).
Contents:
ff. 1r-96v: The Gospel of Matthew with Gloss; preceded by a prologue.
ff. 97r-152v: The Gospel of Mark with Gloss; preceded by a prologue.
[f. 153r and f. 153v are blank].
Decoration:
4 medium initials in purple or animal initials in gold frames, decorated with the symbols of St Matthew and St John; and two winged animals at the beginning of prologues and Gospels:
f. 1r: Purple initial: A winged man, writing (Matthew).
f. 2r: Animal initial: A winged goat (?).
f. 97r. Purple initial: A winged wolf (?).
f. 98r: Animal initial: An eagle (John)
Small initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, or in red with blue penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. Paraphs in blue or red, some with pen-flourishing in one or both colours. Running titles in alternating letters of red and blue. Decorated quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003391980
040-003394565 - Is part of:
- Davis1-890 : Henry Davis Collection
Davis386 : The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses - Hierarchy:
- 032-003391980[0002]/040-003394565
- 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_100065021033.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 355 x 240 mm (text space: 220 x 145 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 153 ( + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning); f. 153 originally was a flyleaf. The lower margins of ff. 15, 34, 41, 143 have been cut off.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. 13th-century brown goatskin tooled in blind over wooden boards, with stamps of facing birds, birds in interlace, hybrid creatures, a man hawking, and foliate designs. Remnants of 4 pairs of clasps. For a full description of the binding’s decorations see Schimidt-Künsemüller, Die Abendländischen Romanischen Blindstempeleinbände (1985), p. 136 (no. 84).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Paris, Ile-de-France.
Provenance:
A Parisian workshop: the Romanesque binding is Parisian (Hobson, ‘A New Parisian Romanesque Binding’ (1960), p. 263); the historiated initials are attributed to the so-called Almagest atelier at Paris (see De Hamel, Glossed Books (1984), p. 82).
Andrew of St-Oyan (fl. 13th century), Archpriest of Treffort: his 13th-century ownership inscription on f. 153r: 'hec sunt evanglia math[ae]i et marci qui sunt andree de sancto eugendo'; donated by him to the Benedictine abbey of St-Claude du Jura: Davis386 forms a pair with a Lons-le-Saunier MS 4, a Gospel of St Luke with Gloss, that contains the ownership inscription: ‘Hec sunt evangelia beati luce que sunt andree de sancto eugendo’. A 13th-century grant records the gift of both volumes (‘Matheum in uno volumine et Marcum; Lucam’), together with eight other manuscripts, to Condat Abbey (see Castan, ‘La bibliothèque’ (1889), pp. 348-49).
The Benedictine abbey of Condat at St-Claude (Jura Mountains), owned from the 13th century until 1492, and perhaps until the abbey's dissolution in 1742: donated to the monastery in the 13th century; identified as no. 48 in the abbey’s catalogue of 1492 (see Castan, ‘La bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Saint-Claude du Jura’ (1889), p. 331 (no. 48)).
Charles-Louis Fière (b. 1863, d. c. 1937): his sale, Paris, 14-16 November 1938 (see Vente après décès Bibliothèque Ch. Louis Fière, bibliophile Dauphinois. Précieux livres anciens [...] vente 14, 15, 16 Novembre 1938); according to Hobson, ‘A New Parisian Romanesque Binding’ (1960), p. 262.
Antoine Pol (b. 1888, d. 1971), French poet: his book-plate with the inscription 'Le troupe au est a l'image du berger ex libris Antoine Pol' (inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, 31 May 1960, Lot 1; perhaps purchased by Henry Davis.
Henry Davis (b. 1897, d. 1977), businessman and book collector: with his book-plate (inside upper cover) and shelfmark 'HD M72' (f. [i] recto). The Henry Davis Gift of book-bindings was donated to the British Museum in 1968.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Auguste Castan, ‘La bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Saint-Claude du Jura: Esquisse de son histoire’, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes, 50 (1889), 301-54 (pp. 348-49).
Anthony R. A. Hobson, ‘A New Parisian Romanesque Binding’, The Burlington Magazine, 102: 687 (1960), 262-64.
Ernst Kyriss, ‘Vorgotische verzierte Einbände der Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe’, in Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 36 (Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1961), pp. 277-85 (p. 284).
Mirjam M. [Romme] Foot, ‘Contemporary Collectors XLIV. The Henry Davis Collection I: The British Museum Gift’, Book Collector, 18 (1969), 23-44 (p. 27 n. 25).
Howard Millar Nixon 'The Binding of the Winton Domesday', in Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, ed. by Martin Biddle, Winchester Studies, 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 526-40 (p. 536 n. 2).
Mirjam M. Foot, ‘Les reliures françaises de la collection Henry Davis’, Revue française d'histoire du livre, 6 (1982), 371-87 (p. 371).
Christopher de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1984), pp. 67 n. 20 (as 'CIX'), 68 n. 21, 72, 77, 82.
Friedrich Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller, Die Abendländischen Romanischen Blindstempeleinbände (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1985), p. 136 (no. 84).
Mirjam M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings, 3 vols (London: British Library, 1978-2010), III (2010): A Catalogue of South-European Bindings, p. 27 (no. 1).
'Davis386', Database of Bookbindings http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings [accessed 2 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.