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Detailed record for Royal 3 C X
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| Author |
Augustine |
| Title |
Gospel of John; Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis |
| Origin |
England, S. E. (Rochester) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
2 historiated initials in outline drawing and colours with John's symbol and the Lamb of God, at the beginning of John and of the Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis of Augustine (ff. 3, 14v). Initials in blue, green, red, or purple, some with penwork decoration and/or yellow washes (e.g., ff. 30v, 35). |
| Dimensions in mm |
370 x 245 (280 x 160), in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 231 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf, at the beginning and at the end; ff. 1, 2 are medieval parchment flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Royal Library binding, 18th century. |
| Provenance |
Walter, bishop of Rochester (1148-1182), given by him to the cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester: inscribed, 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i]', and in a different hand, 'p[er] Walt[erum] ep[iscopum] Aug[ustinus] sup[er] Joh[ane]m', 14th century (f. 3); included in the catalogue of the Rochester library of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XII, f. 2).
Added drawing of a human figure (f. 148).
Added table of the Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis with correspondent numbers in the upper margins of each folio, 14th century (f. 1).
Red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 50' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542, 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. 8653).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Includes John (ff. 3-14) and the Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis of Augustine (ff. 14-231v).
Perhaps written by the same scribe as Royal 5 B VI.
Quire signatures. |
| 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. 76.
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), pp. 161, 300, 362.
Margaret Gibson, 'Lanfranc's notes on Patristic Texts', Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 22 (1971) 435-50 (p. 449, n. 1).
Katharine Mary Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community of Rochester Cathedral Priory c. 1080-1150' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool, 1980), p. 360.
Michael Gullick, 'The Scribe of the Carilef Bible: A New Look at some Late-Eleventh-Century Durham Cathedral Manuscripts', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 61-83 (p, 80, n. 48).
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B79.3.
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), H2.582.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 453.8. |
| Last revised: 17 September 2009 |
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f. 3
Eagle of John |
f. 14v
Lamb of God |
f. 124
Decorated initial |
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