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Detailed record for Egerton 2831
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| Author |
Jerome |
| Title |
Commentary on Isaiah, books XIV-XVIII |
| Origin |
France, Central (Tours) |
| Date |
2nd half of the 8th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Minuscule |
| Decoration |
Drawing in brown ink of a nimbed figure (f. 109v). Zoomorphic initial in brown ink with a fish (f. 1v). Large initial in brown ink with penwork decoration (f. 78v). Small initials in brown. |
| Dimensions in mm |
290 x 215 (250 x 190) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 143 ( + an unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Green velvet with pattern; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
The abbey of St Martin, Tours: 8th-century inscription in Merovingian cursive 'Hic habet librum sancti Martini Turonensem de caenubio in quo quiescit [(?) se]d de illo armario et qui me furaverit vel hoc folium inciserit [anathema] sit' (f. 1).
Former shelf-mark(?) '141' (f. 1).
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector (on whom see Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois: Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVI', Book Collector 33 (1984), 431-48).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham: acquired with the other Barrois manuscripts in 1849.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: sold in the Ashburnham-Barrois sale, 10 June 1901, lot 267, bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), no. Eg. 2831.
New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., First Series, 2 vols, ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others (London: [n. pub.], 1903-1912), 1 [-2], pls 108-9.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Studies in the Script of Tours, 1, 2 vols (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929), I, no. 7, II, pls 12-13.
Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, ed. by Wilhelm Koehler and Florentine Mütherich, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), 1, ed. by Wilhelm Köehler: Die Schule von Tours, 2 vols, I: ie Ornamentik, p. 11 fn. 1, 89 fn. 1.
Wilhelm Köhler, Review of Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 321-36 (p. 324).
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 196a, b.
Bernard Bischoff, 'Einwiedergefundener Papyrus und die altesten Handschriften der Schule von Tours', in Mittelalterliche Studien, I (Stuttgart, 1966), pp 6-16 (pp. 10, 13).
Pierre Gasnault, 'L' ex libris du VIIIe s. d'un manuscrit de S. Hilaire (Bibl. nat., nouv. acq. lat. 1592), Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 25 (1971), 49-52 (pp. 50-1, pl. I). |
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