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Detailed record for Royal 3 C VIII
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| Title |
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses, imperfect at the end |
| Origin |
England, S. E. (Rochester) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
3 large initials in colours and gold with foliate and/or zoomorphic motifs (ff. 2, 66, 148). Smaller plain initials in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
365 x 245 (245 x 170) |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 204 (ff. i, 204 are parchment flyleaves; 1 blank unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 147) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Tan leather with gold-tooling; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
The cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester (see Ker 1964).
Inscribed in the 13th century: 'W. de Stan. pentateuc. E. vi. m'. (f. 1v); a similar inscription occurs in Royal 4 A VII, also from Rochester.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 514' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 5 or f. 5v; 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?), no. 7748 or 7757.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| 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. 75.
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Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 360.
C. F. R. De Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1984), p. 35.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.762. |
| Last revised: 18 September 2009 |
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f. 2
Inhabited initial |
f. 66
Inhabited initial |
f. 148
Decorated initial |
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