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Detailed record for Royal 17 C XVII
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| Part 1 |
ff. 2,3,163-166 |
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| Title |
Part of a lectionary |
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| Origin |
England, N. |
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| Date |
10th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Initials in red (oxidised) |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 140 (200 x 120) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 4-162 |
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| Title |
Miscellany of grammatical, poetic and medical texts, saints lives and legends |
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| Origin |
England, N |
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| Date |
1st half of the 15th century |
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| Language |
English and Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
Initials highlighted in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 140 (180 x 120) parts in two columns |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 166 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end. ff. 2, 3, 163-166 are medieval parchment flyleaves) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling, the arms of George II and the date of 1757. |
| Provenance |
Samuell Compton and Ch. Kirten: inscribed with their names (f. 1) in a sixteenth-century hand.
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6637.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 202.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
The flyleaves are part of a Latin lectionary in 10th-century English caroline minuscule (ff. 2, 3, 163-166).
The contents include Latin word lists with English equivalents (ff. 4-66). |
| 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), II, pp. 243-45.
Three Middle English Religious Poems, Edited with an Introduction and Commentary' ed. by R.H. Bowers, University of Florida Monographs: Humanities, 12 (Florida: University of Florida Press, 1963), pp. 1, 19-32 [for an edition of the poem on ff. 152-155 in this manuscript].
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 120 no.174.
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. 498.
Michael Gullick, 'Fragments of some Anglo-Saxon service books in Norway and Sweden', 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. 188-200 (pp. 199 n. 46). |
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Part 1
ff. 2,3,163-166 |
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