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Detailed record for Royal 5 C VIII
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| Author |
Augustine |
| Title |
Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli |
| Origin |
England, S. E. (Rochester) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
3 large foliate initials with dragons, in colours, at the beginning of major text divisions (ff. 3, 65, 160v). Initials in green, brown, or/and red, some with penwork decoration, at the beginning of each sermon. Small initials in green or brown, at the beginning of rubrics. |
| Dimensions in mm |
360 x 260 (275 x 190), in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 250 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning; f. 250 is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1970. |
| Provenance |
The cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester: inscribed, 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i]', (f. 1); included in the Rochester library catalogue of 1202, no. 5 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).
Added drawing of a head of a woman in an initial, at the beginning of sermon 70, 14th century? (f. 169v).
Thomas Wybarn, monk of Rochester: inscribed in his hand, 'Qui servare libru[m] nescit s[ib]i honore[m], / Illi[us] a manibus procull sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v; and 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. 7810, 7822, or 7826).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Quire signatures. |
| Select bibliography |
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. 110.
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), p. 162.
Pierre-Patrick Verbraken, Études critiques sur les sermons authentiques de saint Augustin, Instrumenta Patristica, 12 (Steenbrugis: Nijhof, 1976), p. 222.
Katharine M. Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), pp. 126, 127, 128, nn. 3, 4, 129, nn. 2-5, 174-5, 270, 335, 360.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B79.5.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.848. |
| Last revised: 21 September 2009 |
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f. 1
Coloured initial |
f. 3
Decorated initial |
f. 10v
Decorated initial |
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f. 32v
Decorated initial |
f. 44v
Decorated initial |
f. 61
Decorated initial |
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f. 65
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 160v
Zoomorphic initial |
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