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Harley MS 5431, ff 4r-126v
- Record Id:
- 041-003309733
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051277
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028919180.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5431, ff 4r-126v
- Title:
- Regula S Benedicti, Pseudo-Fulgentius, Collectio capitularis of the synods of Aachen, and Memoriale Qualiter
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain an ornately decorated copy of the textus receptus of the Rule of St Benedict made in the 2nd half or 4th quarter of the 10th century, along with computus material, texts related to the synods of Aachen of 816-819 (including the Collectio capitularis, and Memoriale qualiter) and some later medieval additions. They include:
ff. 4r-5v: Horologium, computus, and calendar material arranged in charts;
f. 6r: later medieval notes;
ff. 6v-106v: Rule of St Benedict;
f. 106v: Pseudo-Fulgentius, beginning 'Dicebat scs. fulgenti. iuxta...', copied in the 13th century;
ff. 107r-114r: Collectio capitularis
ff. 114r-126v: Memoriale qualiter;
f. 126v: beginning of the tract entitled 'De festivitatibus anni', now erased.
Decoration: charts have borders in red, green, and blue with foliated details and biting beasts' heads, with text in red, blue, black, and green; later medieval manicula (f. 6r); display capitals with alternating red and green or red, brown, and blue lines (ff. 6v-7r); numbers in red (ff. 12v-14v, 107v-113v); initials highlighted in red, green, and blue (ff. 12v-14r, 15r, 16v, 32v, 33r, 34v-36v, 106v, 107r-v, 126v); Greek letters, spelling the Latin phrase 'Deo Grathias' (f. 106v); rubrics in red (throughout); initials in black, brown, or red with zoomorphic interlace, interlace, and/or foliated details (throughout). Stubs of excised leaves remain between ff. 31-32, 34-35, 72-73, 75-76, 112-113, 116-117.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051277
041-003309733 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5431 : Rule of St Benedict; Various Theological Writings
Harley MS 5431, ff 4r-126v : Regula S Benedicti, Pseudo-Fulgentius, Collectio capitularis of the synods of Aachen, and Memoriale Qualiter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5433]/040-002051277[0001]/041-003309733
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 5431
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5431 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England (? St Augustine's Canterbury)
Provenance:
Mid-11th century: its texts of the Memoriale qualiter and the Collectio capitularis may have been the models for the copies in Cotton MS Titus A IV, copied in the mid-11th century possibly at Winchester or Canterbury (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 200).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), I, pl. 63.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1926), p. 107.
Francis Wormald, ‘Decorated Initials in English MSS. from A.D. 900 to 1100’, Archaeologia, 91 (1945), 107-35 (p. 120).
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 206.
N.R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 200.
T.A.M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 18.
Mechthild Gretsch, Die Regular Sancti Benedicti in England und ihre altenglische Ubersetzung (Munich, 1973), pp. 94-107.
Mechthild Gretsch, 'Æthelwold's Translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin Exemplar', Anglo-Saxon England, (1974), 125-51 (p. 126).
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 38; p. 62. [with additional bibliography].
The Benedictines in Britain, British Library Series, 3 (London: British Library, 1980), no. 2 [exhibition catalogue].
The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, ed. by Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, and Leslie Webster (London: British Museum, 1984), no. 27 [exhibition catalogue].
Michelle Brown, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), pl. 70.
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History, Studies in Benedictinism, A.D.950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6 (Suffolk: Boydell, 1993), pp. 8, 98.
Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. by Linda L. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderston-Lovelace, 1995), p. 221, fig. 25.
Helmut Gneuss, ‘Origin and Provenance of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: The Case of Cotton Tiberius A. III’, in Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1997), 13-48 (p. 29).
Mechthild Gretsch, 'Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57: a witness to the early stages of the Benedictine reform in England?', Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), 111-46 (pp. 116, 117, 119-20, 124).
Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), p. 108 (plate).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 440.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)