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Detailed record for Burney 340
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| Author |
Origen |
| Title |
Homiliae in numeri 15-19 |
| Origin |
France, N. (Corbie?) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 7th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Uncial (Merovingian), with rustic capitals |
| Decoration |
Coloured display script for the title, explicit, and certain beginnings of homilies. Large coloured initials, some zoomorphic with fish or a bird. Simple coloured letters at the beginning of paragraphs. |
| Dimensions in mm |
310 x 225 (235 x 165) |
| Official foliation |
ff. v + 60 (ff. i* and iii are parchment flyleaves backed with silk; ff. ii and 60* are parchment flyleaves, and f. i is a paper flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Crimson velvet with grey silk doublures over wooden boards; crimson and gilt edges; there is an earlier binding structure under the current binding. |
| Provenance |
The Benedictine abbey of St-Pierre, Corbie, France, 12th century: inscribed 'lib(er) s(ancti) pet(ri) corbeie' (f. 1).
The Benedictine abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris: transferred there in 1638, with a 18th century French note regarding the manuscript’s provenance (f. ir-v), and 'No. 197' (f. 1, lower left corner).
? The abbey of St-Laurence (18th century French note regarding the manuscript’s provenance, f. ir-v).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. |
| Notes |
Part of the original manuscript was acquired by Peter Dubrovsky, now St. Petersburg, MS. Lat. F v I 4; off-set of the former subsequent text visible on f. 60*. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 91, pl. 3.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II Latin, p. 49.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), p. 19, no. 182.
Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1884), II, p. 49, pl. 5.
Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale [Nationale]: Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), II (1884), pp. 427-40 (pp. 428, no. 28; 431 no. 230) [Appendice I: Bibliothèque de Corbie: XIe et XIIe siècle].
E. H. Zimmermann, Vorkarolingische Miniaturen, Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst: Malerei, 3 (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916), pp. 73, 201.
A. Wilmart, ‘La collection des 38 homélies latines de saint Jean Chrysostome’, The Journal of Theological Studies, 19 (1918), 305-27 (p. 327 n. 2).
Leslie Webber Jones, ‘Pricking Manuscripts: The Instruments and their Significance’, Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 21 (1946), 389-403 (p. 393 n. 17).
Leslie Webber Jones, ‘The Scriptorium at Corbie: II. The Script and the Problems’, Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 22 (1947), 375-94 (pp. 381, 387) [a translation of Delisle].
Elias Avery Lowe, The Oldest Omission Signs in Latin Manuscripts: Their Origin and Significance, Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, VI, Studi e Testi, 126 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1966), pp. 37-38, no. 144.
C. de Merindol, La production des livres peints à l’Abbaye de Corbie, 3 vols (Lille, 1976), III, 1094-7.
David Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance, Beihefte der Francia, 20 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecki, 1990), pp. 40-41, 126.
Michelle P. Brown and Patricia Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes (London: British Library, 1999), pl. on p. 40.
Leuven Database of Ancient Books,< http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/index.html> [accessed 15 July 2004]. |
| Last revised: 14 February 2005 |
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f. 1
Display script in capitals |
f. 1
Detail |
f. 4
Decorated initial and zoomorphic initial |
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f. 4
Detail |
f. 11
Display script and decorated initial |
f. 11
Detail |
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f. 12
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 12
Detail |
f. 51v
Decorated initial |
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