[In epistolas canonicas]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [In epistolas canonicas]
Other titles: Bible
Classmark: BC MS 22
Creator(s): Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)(Author)
Publication city: [Southern Germany]
Date(s): [ca. 1100-1150]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (84 leaves) (1 column, 26 lines; ruled with hard point)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/cngsqb39
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372700
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Quires numbered at the end.
Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red.
Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-84r Bede's commentary on the seven catholic epistles.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 57-58. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), p. 6.
Features
Bindings
Medieval, but not the original, binding of red leather over wooden boards, repaired in 1968. Five bosses remain, but two metal clasps are now lacking. Two labels on the front cover, inscribed with 'Exposicio Bede presbiteri super septem canonicas epistolas' and the pressmark 'A v. p'.
Provenance
Written in southern Germany, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of Reichenbach am Regen, Bavaria. A copy of a deed written on f. 84r, recording a donation of an estate to the Reichenbach Abbey, shows the manuscript belonged to the abbey in the middle of the 12th-century, as datable from the names in the deed. The manuscript later got to the Lambach Abbey, the Benedictine abbey of Sts Mary and Kylian, north-east of Salzburg, Upper Austria. The title and press-mark labels on the upper cover are characteristic of Lambach books. There is also a 19/20th-century ownership inscription 'Lambach' on f. 84r. Manuscripts from the Lambach Abbey have been sold on various occasions from the 1920s, and it is likely that Lord Brotherton purchased this manuscript from one of these sales.
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