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Detailed record for Additional 16979
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| Title |
Obituarium and Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict (diocese of Nîmes) |
| Origin |
France (St Gilles, Nîmes) |
| Date |
1129 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Scribe |
Petrus Guillelmus |
| Decoration |
1 miniature in colours and gold (f. 21v). Decorated initials in colours and gold. Penwork initials in red and green or blue and red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
240 x 172 (185 x 105) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 63 (+ 1 foliated parfchment flyleaf (f. i) and 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
The Benedictine abbey of St Gilles, diocese of Nîmes: scribal colophon by Petrus Guillelmus locating the copying to St Gilles and dated 1129: 'Ad honorem sancti egidii Petrus Guillermus fecit hunc librum in tempore domini petri abbatis anno incarnati verbi XCXXVII regnate lodovico rege' (f. 62); obit of prior Betrand of St Martin, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (d. 1278) and other additions relating to the Abbey of St Gilles (f. 62v).
? A Dominican abbey, Chambéry: see note by Frederick Madden on f. I recto, which states that the manuscript was in the possession of 'Friar Preachers at Chambéry'.
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss on 12 June 1847. |
| Notes |
Calendar and Obituarium (ff. 1-21); Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 21v-62); later additions (ff. 62v-63v). |
| Select bibliography |
A. Molinier, Les Obituaires français au moyen âge (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1890), no. 260.
Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts and Inscriptions: First Series, ed. by E. A. Bond, 2 vols (London, 1873-1883), I, pl. 62.
M. Schapiro, 'New Documents on Saint-Gilles', Art Bulletin, 17 (1935), 414-31.
S. Harrison Thomson, Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages 1100-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), no. 2.
C. Hohler, 'A Note on Jacobus', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 35 (1972), 53-54.
Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons des manuscrits occidentaux des origins au xvie siècle. Tome V: Colophons signés: P-Z (Fribourg: Éditions Universitaires, 1979), no. 15,570.
Jean-Loup Lemaître, Répertoire des documents nécrologiques français, Recueil des historiens de la France, VII, 2 vols (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980), II, no. 3071.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no. 174.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no. 51. |
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