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Detailed record for Royal 3 B I
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| Author |
Isidore; Jerome |
| Title |
De genesi (f. 3); Commentary on Titus (f. 91v) and Philemon (f. 114v) |
| Origin |
England, S.E. (Rochester) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Scribe |
attributed to Rochester scribe 6 (see Waller, 1980) |
| Decoration |
Rough drawing of part of the Crucifixion, probably added (f. 91). Large initials in red (now oxidised) with penwork decoration in green. Numerous small initials in red. Rubrics, marginal titles and chapter numbers in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 180 (200 x 130/40) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 126 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house (rebound in 1998) |
| Provenance |
The cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester: inscribed on ff. 1, 1v, 2v) and included in the catalogues of 1122/3 (no. 23 ?) and 1202 (no. 80) (see Sharpe et al., 1996).
Alfred/Alvred, prior of St Andrew, Rochester (d. 1186): inscribed: ' Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] p[er] A. P[ri]oru[m]' (see Heads of Religious Houses in England and Wales, 3 vols., ed. by David M. Smith and Vera London (Cambridge: University Press, 1972-2001), I (p. 64).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 409' (f. 3), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542, in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 16 ) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), nos. 7879 and 7847.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Commentary on Philemon imperfect at end (f. 124 is cut in half and the text ends here).
On the margin of f. 84 is scribbled 'Robertus de Gelham est bonus puer' (cf. Royal 2 C. v, f. I and Royal 6 C vi). |
| Select bibliography |
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. 71.
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. 161.
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), pp. 269, 289, 360.
Mary Richards, Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 78, part 3 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1988), p. 18.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: The British Library, 1996), B77.23.
Michael Gullick, ‘Manuscrits et copistes normands en Angleterre (XIe-XIIe siècles), in Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siècles), ed. by Pierre Bouet and Monique Dosdat (Caen: Presses Universitaires, 1999), pp. 83-93 (p. 88, n. 20).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.727
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 453.2.
Jerome, Commentarii in Epistulas Pavli Apostoli ad Titum et ad Philemonem, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 77C: S. Hieronymi Presbyteri Opera, Pars I: Opera Exegetica, VIII, ed. by Federica Bucchi (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), [an edition of the text].
Isodore of Seville, Expositio in Vetus Testamentum Genesis, ed. by Michael M. Gorman (Freiberg: Herder, 2009) [an edition of the text from earlier manuscripts]. |
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