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Detailed record for Royal 7 D XXIV
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| Part 1 |
ff. 82-168 |
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| Author |
Aldhelm |
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| Title |
De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus |
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| Origin |
England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of 10th century |
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| Language |
Latin with Old English glosses |
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| Script |
Insular minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Drawing of an author portrait of Aldhelm, touched-up in ink at the end of 10th century (f. 85v). Zoomorphic initials highlighted in colours, with display script, at the beginning of the text (f. 86). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 120 (135 x 90) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 2-81v |
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| Author |
Guitmundus, bishop of Aversa |
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| Title |
De corpore et sanguine Domini' |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church) |
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| Date |
1st half of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 1). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 120 (120 x 90) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 168 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 7 at the end; f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1983. |
| Provenance |
Added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ dated in 540, 16th century (f. 1).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 399 (see The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to 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 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 399).
Added transcription of the letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Part I: includes the letter of Aldhelm (c. 639-7-9), abbot of Malmesbury and bishop of Sherborne, to Ehfridus (ff. 162v, 166-168).
Part II: 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. 192.
R. Priebsch, The Heliand Manuscript Caligula A. VII in the British Museum: A Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), pp. 20, 30, 32.
Francis Wormald, 'Decorated Initials in English Manuscripts from A.D. 900 to 1100', Archeologia, 91 (1945) 107-35 (p. 115).
D. Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 178.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 73.
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. 364.
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 4.
Aldhelm, The Prose Works, ed. and trans. by Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979), pp. 11-19, 51-136 [a translation of the text].
Michelle Brown, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), p. 24, fig. 22.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 59 [exhibition catalogue].
J. A Kiff-Hooper, 'Classbooks or Works of Art ? Some observations on the 10th Century Manuscripts of Aldhelm's De Laude Virginitatis', Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages ed. by Ian Wood and G. Loud (London: Hambledon Press, 1991) 15-26 (pp. 16-21).
Richard Gameson, 'The Decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992) 115-159 (pp. 123-26, 137, n. 94, 158, n. 197).
Patrizia Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries (Ashgate: Variorum, 1999), pp. 7, 21.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 46.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 473 (ff. 82-168).
Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 219, 294, fig. 128.
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 243.
Michael Wood, ' "Stand strong against the monsters": kingship and learning in the empire of King Aethelstan', in Lay intellectuals in the Carolingian World, ed. by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 102-217 (pp. 201-02, n. 36). |
| Last revised: 22 September 2009 |
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Part 1
ff. 82-168 |
| Aldhelm De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus |
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f. 85v
Aldhelm |
f. 85v
Aldhelm |
f. 86
Zoomorphic initial |
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f. 96
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 99v
Decorated initial |
f. 101v
Zoomorphic initial |
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f. 103v
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 115
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 132v
Zoomorphic initial |
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f. 149v
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 158
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 162v
Zoomorphic initial |
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