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Detailed record for Royal 5 B XII
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| Part 1 |
ff. 2-3 |
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| Title |
Catalogue of the Rochester library |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Rochester) |
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| Date |
1202 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Scribe |
Four or five different scribes |
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| Decoration |
1 initial in black with penwork decoration in red and 1 in red with penwork decoration in brown (f. 2). Initials in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
265 x 175 (230 x 145), in two columns |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 4-165v |
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| Author |
Augustine, Pseudo-Augustine |
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| Title |
De doctrina christiana, De vera religione and Sermones de poenitentia (sermo 351); De poenitentibus (sermo 393) |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Rochester) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Artists |
Rochester scribe 3 |
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| Decoration |
3 initials in colours with foliate, or puzzle decoration, at the beginning of major text divisions (ff. 5, 8, 102). Large initials in purple, red, or blue (ff. 22, 48, 70, 150). Smaller initials in red or green. 1 diagram of Augustine's divisions in the 'De Doctrina Chtistiana', in red, brown and green ink (f. 4). Some letters highlighted in green, red, and/or yellow. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
265 x 175 (200 x 120), in one column |
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| Official foliation |
ff. i + 166 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end; ff. i, 1, 166 are medieval parchment flyleaves) |
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Parchment codex. |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Royal Library parchment binding. |
| Provenance |
The cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester: added catalogue of the Rochester Library, written by Alexander in 1202, inscribed 'anno ab incarnat[i]o[n]e d[omi]ni m° cc° ii° h[oc] e[st] scrutiniu[m] lib[ra]/rii n[ost]ri', with a title, 'Librariu[m] beati Andree' (f. 2r), and, in a different hand, 'Sic ordinavit libros et sic scripsit / Alex[ander] h[uius] ecc[lesi]e quonda[m] cantor', (f. 3); ownership inscription, 'III. August[ini] de doct[ri]na xp[ist]iana. It[em] ei[us]de[m] de v[er]a / religione[e]. Item eiusde[m] de penitentia / Lib[er] de claust[r]o Roffens[i] que[m] qui inde alienav[er]it / alenat[um] celav[er]it, vel hu[n]c titulu[m] in fraude[m] dele/verit Anathema sit', with added note, 'Memoriale Humf[r]idi p[re]centor[is]', 13th century (f. 4v); included in the Rochester library catalogues of 1122/23, no. 10; and of 1202, no. 11 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).
Thomas Wybarn, monk of Rochester: inscribed 'Tho[ma]s Wybarn orate p[ro] eo / monachus Roffen.', a note in his hand, 'Hu[n]c lib[ru]m sc[r]ipsit f[rate]r hunfrid[us] in claust[r]o Roffen[si] / quonda[m] illi[us] eccl[es]ie p[re]centor cui[us] die[m] p[ro]piciet de[us]' (f. 3v), and another note in his hand (f. 167v).
Reynold Goldston, inscribed with his name 'R. Goldston' (see Royal 5 B IV), 16th century (f. 1).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 43' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian: notes in his hand (e.g., f. 166v); included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8646).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Includes: a table of contents (f. 1), 'De doctrina christiana' (ff. 5-101), preceded by a diagram (f. 4) and 'Sententia de libro retractationum' (f. 4v) 'De vera religione' (ff. 102-149v), and 'Sermones de poenitentia' (sermo 351) of Augustine (ff. 150-165v), including 'De poenitentibus' (sermo 393) of Pseudo-Augustine (ff. 164-165v).
Part 1 is written by two hands (Hand I wrote entries 1-19 and 24-29; Hand 2 wrote entries 20-22, 30-48, 50-116, perhaps 117, 118-20, 126-62, 168-96, 200-214, and 216-235) (see Waller 1980).
According to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick, the scribe of part 2 also wrote Cambridge University Library, ff.4.32, Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.4.7, Eton 80, Royal 5 C I, 6 A IV, 6 C IV, 8 D XVI, 12 C I, ff. 1-2v, 15 A XXII, ff. 110-17, Lambeth Palace 76, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 134, Rochester A 3. 5.
Quire signatures (Part 2). |
| Select bibliography |
W. B. Rye, 'Catalogue of the Library of the Priory of St Andrew, Rochester, AD 1202', Archeologia Cantiana, 3 (1860) 54-61 [edition of the manuscript, ff. 2-3].
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 104.
N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), p. 31.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 162, 297.
Samuel Harrison Thomson, Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1969), pl. 88.
The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970, ed. by Konrad Hoffmann (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), no. 308 [exhibition catalogue].
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no.870.
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), pp. 269, 299, 360.
Mary Richards, 'A Decorated Vulgate set from 12th century Rochester, England', The Journal of the Walter Art Gallery, 39 (1981), 59-67 (p. 62).
B. Munk Olsen, L’e´tude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe sie`cles, 3 vols (Paris: C.N.R.S., 1982), I, pp. 210-11.
M. Gorman, 'The Manuscript Tradition of St Augustine', Congresso Internazionale su S. Agostino nel XVI centenario della conversione, Studia Ephemeridis 'Augustinianum', 24, 3 vols (Rome: Institutum Patristicum 'Augustinianum', 1987), I, pp.381-412.
Mary Richards, Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 78, part 3 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1988), pp. 13-19, 23-41.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B77.10, B.11.
Donatella Nebbiai, 'La Bibliothèque commune des institutions religieuses', Scriptorium: revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 50 (1996) 254-68 (p. 264).
Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), p. 21.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.575. |
| Last revised: Monday, September 21, 2009 |
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Part 1
ff. 2-3 |
| Catalogue of the Rochester library |
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f. 2
Text page |
f. 2v
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f. 3
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Part 2
ff. 4-165v |
| Augustine, Pseudo-Augustine De doctrina christiana, De vera religione and Sermones de poenitentia (sermo 351); De poenitentibus (sermo 393) |
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f. 3v
Inscriptions |
f. 4
Diagram |
f. 4v
Ownership inscription |
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f. 5
Decorated initial |
f. 8
Decorated initial |
f. 102
Coloured initial |
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f. 150
Coloured initial |
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