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Detailed record for Additional 25600
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| Title |
Passional, , including saints of Cordoba, Spain (ff. 262-269) with interlinear and marginal glosses |
| Origin |
Spain, N. (Burgos) |
| Date |
919 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Visigothic minuscule |
| Decoration |
23 full-page length initials in red, blue-green, black and brown with foliate and interlace decoration, some with zoomorphic elements. Small initials with interlace in red, blue-green, black and brown. Rubrics in capitals in alternating lines of red and blue-green or red and black. Initials in yellow with red outline or in red, some with decoration. Page numbering in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
395 x 280 (300 x 200/20) written in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 269 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with black tooling. |
| Provenance |
?The Benedictine monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in the diocese of Burgos, perhaps copied at the command of Abbot Damian (r. c. 900 to 920), by a scribe named Gomes: on a paper flyleaf (f. 1) is a parchment paste-down with an inscription in Spanish in a hand of the 18th century, apparently a copy of the original colophon (now illegible on f. 269), which states: 'Gomes dictus Peccator sive hoc opere scribto forsan me sutract[o] ab igne Era dccccl(a).vii. vi. kal. Dec.' (919 AD) (see Watson, Catalogue, 1979). However, an inscription on f. 258v identifies the scribe as 'Endura presbyter': 'O tu, lectorsanctissime, quotiens hunc librum arripueris ad legendum, pro me tandem Endura presbyter scriptoris non cesses Dominum exorare' (see Shailor , San Pedro de Cardeña, 1979).
A circular ?library stamp, perhaps belonging to an earlier owner (f. 72v).
Messrs Boone, booksellers of London, bought from them by the British Museum, 12 March, 1864. |
| Select bibliography |
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, (London: British Museum, 1854-1875), p. 208.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II Latin, p. 65.
Elias A. Lowe, The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian Minuscule, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914) I, p. 170, n. 7.
E. B. Garrison, Studies in the History of Mediaeval Italian Painting, 3 vols (Florence: L’impronta, 1953-58), I, 46 n.6.
A. Fabrega Grau, Pasionaria hispánico (Siglos VII-XI), Monumenta Hispaniae Sacra. 6, 2 vols (Madrid: CSIC, 1955), II, pp. 393-407
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, c.700-1600, in the Department of Manuscripts, the British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no.305.
Barbara A. Shailor, 'The scriptorium of San Pedro de Carden~a' Bulletin of the: John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 61.2 (1979), 444-73 (pp. 466-67).
Stanley Morison, Selected Essays Ont the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print, 2 vols, ed. by David McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) I, p. 260.
Jose Antonio Flores, 'Escribir en los monasterios altomedievales del Occidente Peninsular (siglos VIII-XII), in Lugares de escritura: el monasterio, ed. by Ramón Baldaquí Escadell (Alicante: University of Alicante Press, 2016), pp. 17-68 (p 32). |
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f.81
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 245
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 258v
Interlace initial |
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