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Detailed record for Arundel 157
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1v-2 |
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| Title |
Prayer |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (St Albans) |
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| Date |
c. 1240 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
1 half-page miniature at the beginning of a prayer to the Holy Face, or Veronica image, in colours and gold (f. 2). Small initial in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 200 (205 x 130) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 3-131 |
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| Title |
Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v) |
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| Origin |
England, Central (Oxford) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Attributed to Hand B of the Munich Psalter (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 835), with possibly an assistant, and the minor decoration to the same artists as that of Harley 2905 and Victoria and Albert Museum, MS L.404-1916 (see Morgan, 1982) |
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| Decoration |
20 large miniatures, each with 2 scenes, forming a cycle of Christological images (ff. 3, 3v, 4, 4v, 5, 5v, 6, 6v, 7, 7v, 8, 8v, 9, 9v, 10, 10v, 11, 11v, 12, 12v). 24 calendar roundels, 2 for each month (ff. 13, 13v, 14, 14v, 15, 15v, 16, 16v, 17, 17v, 18, 18v). 1 full-page channel style initial at the beginning of the first words of Psalm 1 (f. 19). 8 large historiated initials at the beginning of Psalms 26, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 109, and the Canticles (ff. 34v, 51v, 52, 60v, 71v, 82, 93, 116). Numerous smaller initials, historiated, zoomorphic, or 'Channel style', for each Psalm. Small initials in plain red or blue. Line-fillers decorated in red and/or blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 200 (180 x 130) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 132-185 |
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| Title |
Office of the Dead; Hours of the Virgin |
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| Origin |
England, Central (Oxford) |
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| Date |
c. 1220 - c. 1240 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Numerous smaller initials, historiated, zoomorphic, or Channel style, for each Psalm. Small initials in plain red or blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 200 (180 x 130) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 185 (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. The edges of the leaves with medieval (?) decoration in red and blue. |
| Provenance |
Perhaps connected to the Augustinian priory of St Frideswide, Oxford: inclusion of all three feasts of Frideswide (12 February, 15 May, 19 October), and a collect for her, whose relics were kept there. Augustine is the first of the Confessors in the Litany.
S. Heveningham, 17th century: inscription (f. 1).
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk: bought for him in 1658, inscribed 'This book was bought of Capt. Bee by Mr. Simon Fox for the Rt. Honble. Henry Howard. 23rd of March 1658' (f. 1); presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
The Veronica image is the earliest in Western art, according to Lewis 1987 p. 127.
This is the earliest richly illuminated manuscript with fairly definite evidence of having been made in Oxford, according to Morgan 1982. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 43.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 6.
J. Romilly Allen, Norman Sculpture and the Mediaeval Bestiaries: From the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1885 (London: Whiting & Co., 1887), pp. 294 n. 1, 304.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), II: English 12th and 13th Centuries(1915), pl. 8.
John Bradley, Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: Bracken Books, 1920), p. 253 no. 17.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 3, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1925), pl. 16.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris and Brussels: Van Oest, 1926), p. 45, pl. 66.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art (London: British Museum, 1934), no. 107.
Günther Haseloff, Die Psalterillustration im 13. Jahrhundert : Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden ([n.p.]: [n.pub.], 1938), pp. 14, 100-01.
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 110.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 280-2, 290-1, pl. 91a.
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 98-100, 102, 234 n. 27, 32, 33, pl. 98a.
Florens Deuchler, Der Ingeborgpsalter (Berlin: de Gruyter & Co., 1967), pp. 8, 43, 78, 92, 164.
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. 260 [exhibition catalogue].
Henry B. Graham, ‘The Munich Psalter’, in The Year 1200: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), pp. 301-312 (p. 302).
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. 448, II, pl. 126.
Brunsdon Yapp, Birds in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British LIbrary, 1981), p. 22.
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, no. 24, pp. 49, 69, 77, 81, 89, 126, 178, 186, pls 88-92.
Helmut Engelhart, Die Würzburger Buchmalerei im Hohen Mittelalter: Untersuchungen zu einer Gruppe Illuminierter Handschriften aus der Werkstatt der Würzburger Dominikanerbibel von 1246, 2 vols, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg, ed. by Klaus Wittstadt, 34 (Würzburg, 1987), pp. 32, 92, 231, 304, pl. 286.
Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1987), pp. 29, 127-9, 380, 419, 420, 426, 441, 471, 489 n. 199, pl. 5.
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250 - c. 1330), Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 2-3, 2 vols (Leuven: Uitgverij Peeters, 1988), I, 40 n. 42.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 52.
Sonia Scott-Fleming, The Analysis of Pen Flourishing in Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989), p. 86.
Claire Donovan, The de Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford (London, British Library, 1991), p. 201 no. 2.
Suzanne Lewis, Reading Images: Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-century Illuminated Apocalypse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 248.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, 166.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, no. 54.
Nigel Morgan, ‘The Decorative Ornament of the Text and Page in Thirteenth-century England: Initials, Border Extensions and Line Fillers’, in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 1-33 (p. 13).
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), pp. 167, 173.
F. O. Büttner, ‘Der illuminierte Psalter im Westen’, in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images, ed. by F. O. Büttner, (Belgium: Brepols, 2004), pp. 1-106 (p. 27 n. 125).
Nigel Morgan, ‘Patrons and their Devotions in the Historiated Initials and Full-Page Miniatures of 13th-Century English Psalters’, in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images, ed. by F. O. Büttner, (Belgium: Brepols, 2004), pp. 309-22 (p. 309 ns 1, 2, 3).
Lucy Freeman Sandler, ‘The Lumere as lais and its Readers: Pictorial Evidence from British Library MS Royal 15 D ii’, in Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces, ed. by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012), pp. 73-94 (p. 86).
Nigel Morgan, ‘ 'Veronica' Images and the Office of the Holy Face in Thirteenth-Century England’, in The European Fortune of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages, ed. by Amanda Murphy and others (Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017), pp. 84-101. |
| Last revised: 02 December 2005 |
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Part 1
ff. 1v-2 |
| Prayer |
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f. 2
Veronica's veil |
f. 2
Veronica's veil |
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Part 2
ff. 3-131 |
| Psalter, including a calendar (ff. 13-18v) |
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f. 3
Annunciation and Visitation |
f. 3v
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds |
f. 3v
Detail |
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f. 3v
Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds |
f. 3v
Nativity |
f. 4
Magi and Herod |
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f. 4v
Dream of the Magi |
f. 5
Flight into Egypt |
f. 5v
Baptism of Christ and First Temptation of Christ |
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f. 5v
Detail |
f. 5v
Detail |
f. 6
Second and Third Temptations of Christ |
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f. 6
Detail |
f. 6
Detail |
f. 6v
Wedding at Cana and Expulsion of the Moneychangers |
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f. 6v
Detail |
f. 6v
Detail |
f. 7
Martyrdom of John the Baptist and Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes |
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f. 7
Detail |
f. 7
Detail |
f. 7v
Walking on Water |
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f. 8
Raising of Lazarus |
f. 8v
Entry into Jerusalem |
f. 9
Mandatum |
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f. 9v
The Betrayal |
f. 10
Death of Judas; Flagellation of Christ |
f. 10v
Crucifixion and Deposition |
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f. 11
Harrowing of Hell and the Holy Women at the Tomb |
f. 11v
Noli me tangere and supper at Emmaeus |
f. 12v
Descent of the Holy Spirit and Christ in Majesty |
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f. 12v
Pentecost |
f. 12v
Christ in Majesty |
f. 13v
February |
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f. 15
Courting scene |
f. 17v
October |
f. 18v
Boar |
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f. 19
David |
f. 31
Christ |
f. 34v
David |
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f. 43v
Detail |
f. 43v
Slaughter of the Innocents |
f. 45v
Historiated initial |
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f. 45v
Deer |
f. 45v-46
Initials |
f. 49
Dragon |
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f. 51v
Doeg |
f. 51v
Doeg |
f. 52
Historiated initial |
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f. 52
Detail |
f. 57
King |
f. 59
Initials |
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f. 60v
Detail |
f. 65
Lion |
f. 71v
Detail |
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f. 78
Christ |
f. 79
Eve |
f. 81v
Knight |
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f. 82
Nativity |
f. 82
Nativity |
f. 82
Nativity |
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f. 83
Christ |
f. 93
Trinity |
f. 95v
Detail |
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f. 95v
Wresting men |
ff. 98v-99
Decorated initials |
f. 104v
Man and monkey |
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f. 110
Harrowing of Hell |
f. 110
Three Holy Women |
f. 110
Harrowing of Hell |
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f. 112
David and Goliath |
f. 130v
John |
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Part 3
ff. 132-185 |
| Office of the Dead; Hours of the Virgin |
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f. 132
Men |
f. 134
Woman |
f. 138
Man |
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f. 146
Illuminated initial |
f. 159v
Virgin |
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