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Detailed record for Arundel 234
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| Part 1 |
ff. 2-62 |
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| Author |
Sallust |
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| Title |
Catilina (ff. 2-23v); Jugurtha (ff. 24-62) |
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| Origin |
Italy, S. ? |
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| Date |
1st half of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
6 large initials in red with red and yellow penwork decoration (ff. 2, 16v, 23, 24, 27, 28v). Large simple initials in red. Initial capitals highlighted in red and sometimes yellow. Marginal sketches (f. 16v). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
245 x 145 (190 x 105) |
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| Part 2 |
f. 1 |
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| Author |
Amandus, bishop of Bisceglie |
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| Title |
Epistula de reliquiis S. Pantaleonis, fragment |
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| Origin |
Italy |
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| Date |
second half of the 12th century (after 1167) |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Beneventan minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Interlace initial in brown ink. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
245 x 145 (190 x 105) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 62 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at both the beginning and the end) |
| Collation |
Mostly gatherings of 8. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Erased inscription (f. 2, upper margin), possibly of the Carthusians of Mainz.
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2); its book-plate (f. [ii] verso), with the pencil inscription: 'XIII.2.8'.
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
ff. 58-62 are replacement parchment folios of a later date. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 69-70.
E. A. Loew, The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1914), p. 340.
E. A. Loew, The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule, 2nd ed. by Virginia Brown, 2 vols (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1980), II: Hand List of Beneventan MSS., Sussidi Eruditi, 34, pp. 52-53.
Niklas Holzberg, Willibald Pirckheimer: Griechischer Humanismus in Deutschland, Humanistische Bibliothek, ed. by Ernesto Grassi, series I: Abhandlungen, vol. 41 (Munich, Fink, 1981), p. 40.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), 329. |
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Part 1
ff. 2-62 |
| Sallust Catilina (ff. 2-23v); Jugurtha (ff. 24-62) |
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f. 16v
Decorated initial |
f. 16v
Detail |
f. 36
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Part 2
f. 1 |
| Amandus, bishop of Bisceglie Epistula de reliquiis S. Pantaleonis, fragment |
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f. 1
Interlace initial |
f. 1
Detail |
f. 1v
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