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Detailed record for Arundel 379
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| Part 1 |
ff. 2-22v |
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| Author |
Iohannes Rigaldi |
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| Title |
Formula confessionum |
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| Origin |
France, S. |
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| Date |
14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 2). Smaller initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraph marks in plain red or blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 175 (175 x 135) in two columns |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 23-27v |
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| Author |
Iohannes Rigaldi |
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| Title |
Formula confessionum, etc. |
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| Origin |
France, S. |
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| Date |
14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
No illumination. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 175 (180 x 125) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 28-31v |
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| Author |
Henricus de Alemania |
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| Title |
Commonitorium directivum simplicium volentium |
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| Origin |
France, S. E. (Avignon) |
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| Date |
1349 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
2 large initials in plain red, 1 with a human face in brown ink (f. 28). Paraph marks in plain red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 175 (180 x 115) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 31 + i (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
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BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963. |
| Provenance |
'Explicit commonitorium ad honorem dei omnipotentis scriptum per Johannem Arfelt de Esschenew(ege) [Eschwege an der Werra] presbyterum Anno domini mo ccco xlixo in vigilia et crastino a nativitatis beate virginis marie in Avinione [Avignon]' (f. 31v); this scribe wrote also Arundel 414, and in 1347 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Misc. 202, and Laud. Misc. 68.
? The Carthusian abbey of Mainz; Johannes Arfelt or Archfeld was a Mainz Carthusian (see Watson 1979).
? 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 with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.8.12’, inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 111-12.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 466.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II, (1989), 533. |
| Last revised: 02 December 2005 |
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Part 1
ff. 2-22v |
| Iohannes Rigaldi Formula confessionum |
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f. 2
Decorated initial |
f. 2
Detail |
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Part 3
ff. 28-31v |
| Henricus de Alemania Commonitorium directivum simplicium volentium |
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