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Detailed record for Royal 10 A XIII
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| Author |
Smaragdus of St Mihiel |
| Title |
Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti |
| Origin |
England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church) |
| Date |
c. 1170 - c. 1180 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
Miniature in colours and gold of Dunstan, at the beginning of the text (f. 2v). 2 foliate initials in colours, at the beginning of the preface and the text (f. 3). Initials in red, blue or green. |
| Dimensions in mm |
245 x 175 (160 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 156 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1957; f. 2 kept separately. |
| Provenance |
The Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed [under erasure] 'Liber Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f. 2); included in Henry of Eastry's catalogue of the early 14th century, no. 139.
Added foliation and chapter numbers, 14th century.
Thomas Cranmer (b. 1489, d. 1556), archbishop of Canterbury: inscribed with his name (f. 3).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 319 (see The Lumley Library, 1956); his library acquired by Henry, prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Includes Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti of Smaragdus, abbot of St Mihiel (d. c. 830).
The prefatory miniature of Dunstan (f. 2) is painted on a singleton and kept separately.
Catchwords. |
| Select bibliography |
Joseph Strutt, Horda Angel-cynnan: or a Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, etc. of the Inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Saxons till the reign of Henry the Eighth, 3 vols (London: White, 1775-6), II (1775), pl. II, 39, 40.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 31.
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. 309.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1926), p. 89 pl. 59a.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art gathered from Various Departments and held in the Prints and Drawings Gallery (London: British Museum, 1934.), no. 104.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 112, 122, pl. 68a.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 66.
Paul Meyvaert, 'Towards a History of The Textual Transmission of the Regula S. Benedicti', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 17 (1963) 83-106 (p. 102, n. 77).
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. 37.
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 92.
English Romanesque Art 1066-1200, Hayward Gallery, London 5 April-8 July 1984 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984), no. 71 [exhibition catalogue].
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism AD 950-1030 (Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993), pp. 8 n. 4, 98 n. 77..
Mildred Budny and Timothy Graham, 'Dunstan as Hagiographical Subject or Osbern as Author? The Scribal Portrait in an Early Copy of Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani', Gesta, 32 (1993), 83-98 (p. 88, fig. 7).
David G. Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer (Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996), pp. 183-84, 259.
Asa Simon Mittman, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (New York: Routledge, 2006), pl. 9.3.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), pp. 1723-24.
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 101 [exhibition catalogue]. |
| Last revised: 22 September 2009 |
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f. 2
Inscription |
f. 2v
Dunstan |
f. 3
Decorated initials |
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f. 3
Decorated initial |
f. 27v
Coloured initials |
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