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Detailed record for Stowe 1061
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| Part 1 |
f. 36 |
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| Title |
Copy of a page from Cotton Otho C.V |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 18th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Calligraphic copy of Insular half-uncial and display script |
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| Decoration |
Large initials and display script in yellow, green, and red, with interlace, foliate, and bird head's decoration. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 230 (310 x 210) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 2-104; 110-11, 119, 123-4, 126, 128-129, 131-152. |
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| Title |
Numerous facsimiles of manuscripts and monuments |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 18th century |
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| Language |
Latin and Greek and English |
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| Script |
Various |
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| Decoration |
Copies of originals. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 230 (various) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 118, 120, 122, 127, 130 |
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| Title |
Miscellaneous fragments of manuscripts |
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| Origin |
Various |
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| Date |
Various |
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| Language |
Dutch; Latin; French |
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| Script |
Various |
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| Decoration |
2 large initials in gold with colours and foliate decoration (f. 127). 2 large initials in brown with penwork deocration (f. 127v). Musical notation (ff. 127, 130). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
Various |
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| Part 4 |
f. 125 |
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| Title |
Fragments of an Antiphoner |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Canterbury) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 11th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule; neumes (with added 12th-century neumes and notes) |
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| Decoration |
1 large initial in blue. Musical notation. Note that this fragment is from the same manuscript as Burney 277 ff. 69-72. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
195 x 155 (165 x 120) |
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| Part 5 |
f. 112 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
France, N. |
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| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
N/A |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature of the Presentation, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 112). The leaf belongs to Stowe 24. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
185 x 140 (110 x 75) |
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| Part 6 |
f. 113 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
Netherlands, S. (Tournai?) |
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| Date |
c. 1460 - c. 1480 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 113). Smaller initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds. Small initials (1 line) in gold with brown pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. The leaf belongs to Stowe 27. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
145 x 100 (95 x 55) |
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| Part 7 |
f. 114 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
Netherlands, N. |
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| Date |
c. 1440 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Attributed to a follower of the Llangattock Master (see Backhouse 2004). |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature of the Visitation, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 114). Smaller initial (2 lines) in gold on a red and blue ground. Small initials (1 line) in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. The leaf belongs to Stowe 21. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 115 (90 x 55) |
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| Part 8 |
f. 115 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
Netherlands, N. (Utrecht) |
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| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
1 large miniature of a burial scene, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 115). Smaller initial (2 lines) in gold on a red and blue ground. Small initials (1 line) in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. The leaf belongs to Stowe 18. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
140 x 100 (80 x 55) |
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| Part 9 |
f. 116 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
Netherlands, N. (Utrecht) |
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| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
1 large historiated initial of Christ before Caiphas, with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 116). Smaller initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds. Small initials (1 line) in gold with brown pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. The leaf belongs to Stowe 18. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
130 x 100 (80 x 55) |
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| Part 10 |
f. 117 |
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| Title |
Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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| Origin |
France, N. |
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| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin, rubrics in French |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
2 small miniatures with Nicholas and Antony, accompanied by partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 117r-v). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. The leaf belongs to Stowe 24. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 130 (110 x 75) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 152 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning; 8 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 1; 1 after f. 46, 66; and 9 leaves after f. 152) |
| Form |
Parchment and paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling and the arms of Astle in the centre and corners of each cover. |
| Provenance |
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: his arms in the centre and corners of each cover.
f. 1 is a title page, and ff. 105-109 are notes about the manuscripts.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 3 No. 116' (f. [i verso]) corresponding to his catalogue; see O’Conor 1818-1819.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. |
| Notes |
The calligraphic copies include representations of a harp (f. 68) and a double flageolet (f. 101) (see Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III, pp. 361-62). |
| Select bibliography |
Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, 177-86.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 1061.
N. R. Ker, Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 314 [f. 70].
Janet Backhouse, ‘Birds, Beats and Initials in Lindisfarne’s Gospel Books’, in St Cuthbert: His Cult and His Community to AD 1200, ed. by Gerald Bonner, David Rollason, and Clare Stancliffe (1989), pp. 165-74 (p. 170, pl. 13). [f. 36]
Michelle Brown, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), p. 63, pl 67.
The Making of England : Anglo-Saxon art and Culture AD 600-900 ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Library, 1991), no. 83c. [exhibition catalogue].
Simon Keynes, 'The Reconstruction of a Burnt Cottonian Manuscript: The Case of Cotton MS. Otho A. I', British Library Journal, 22 (1996), 113-71 (pp. 129-133, fig. 7).
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 307.2 [f. 125]
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), p. 140, fig. 62. [Part 2, ff. 42-46].
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46. [ff. 43v-44]
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), p. 338, no. 127.
In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 100, ed. by Michelle P. Brown (Washington: Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006), p. 296 [exhibition catalogue]. [Part 1]
Bernard Meehan, 'The Royal-Otho-Corpus / Cambridge-London / Parker-Cotton-Wolsey Gospels', in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 16-27 (pp. 16, 21, 26). |
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Part 1
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Decorated initials and letters |
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Part 8
f. 114 |
| Single leaf of a Book of Hours |
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