From ae5fdf291bf5a164ccccc04933955223b9698999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Dunning Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 17:46:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] MS. Tanner 15: new description (#696) --- collections/Laud_Misc/MS_Laud_Misc_190.xml | 2 +- collections/Tanner/MS_Tanner_15.xml | 124 +++++++++++++++++---- persons.xml | 19 ++++ works.xml | 18 ++- 4 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/collections/Laud_Misc/MS_Laud_Misc_190.xml b/collections/Laud_Misc/MS_Laud_Misc_190.xml index 6511c5ed27..3e13303972 100644 --- a/collections/Laud_Misc/MS_Laud_Misc_190.xml +++ b/collections/Laud_Misc/MS_Laud_Misc_190.xml @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Late 13th century - France (?) + France (?) There is no evidence of ownership. It is, however, likely that part C was once in the possession of the Mainz Charterhouse. diff --git a/collections/Tanner/MS_Tanner_15.xml b/collections/Tanner/MS_Tanner_15.xml index a69726e0ec..94b047a09d 100644 --- a/collections/Tanner/MS_Tanner_15.xml +++ b/collections/Tanner/MS_Tanner_15.xml @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ - + + + MS. Tanner 15 MSS. Tanner - Summary description - Elizabeth Solopova - Matthew Holford + Description + Andrew Dunning @@ -30,37 +31,118 @@ University of Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Tanner 15 - ark:29072/x08336h242btark:29072/x0k930bx10fj + ark:29072/x08336h242bt + ark:29072/x0k930bx10fj + 9835 - - Nova legenda Angliae - Latin + Latin + + (pp. v–viii) + List of contents + Adrianus abbas greca pingua peritus floruit. + Wulstanus baculum in marmore fixit. qui a nullo alio anelli potuit. + + + (pp. 1–581) + John of Tynemouth + Sanctilogium Angliae Walliae Scotiae et Hiberniae + Adrianus nacione affricanus comes et cooperator + sed ab epantu diectus plane dixit. + Perfectum est hoc opus wlgariter intitulatum De sanctis Anglie. Ad laudem et honorem omnipotentis dei. ac sancte Cantuar’ ecclesie. ex Impensis Reuerendi in cristo patris domini Thome Goleston eiusdem ecclesie Prioris. Ac sacrarum litterarum professoris egregii. Per me Jacobum Neell’ Normannum ac Rothomagi natum. Anno verbi incarnati .1.4.9.9. Deo gracias. + + Carl Horstmann, ed., Nova legenda Anglie (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901). + + + + (pp. 582–588) + Additions by Sir John Prise on leaves originally ruled for two columns but otherwise blank, copied from London, British Library, Cotton MS. Vespasian A. xiv. + Latin and Middle Welsh + + De primo statu Landanensis ecclesie Excerpta de pervetusto Libro de vitis sanctorum Britanie + Anno ab incarnatione domini c l vi ᵗº Lucius britannorum Rex ad eleutherium apostolica sedis papam legatos suos scilicet eluanum et meduuinum misit, implorantes vt iuxta eius ammonitionem cristianus fieret quod ab eo impetrauit. + Finis territorii ecclesie Aquilensium. Maliduc + The text ends abruptly, leaving a blank space for the Welsh conclusion (ed. Evans, p. 78). + + Ed. J. Gwenogvryn Evans and John Rhys, The Text of the Book of Llan Dâv, Series of Welsh Texts 4 (Oxford, 1893), 68–78. + Ed. W. J. Rees, The Liber Landavensis, Llyfr Teilo, or, The Ancient Register of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts 1 (Llandovery: Rees, 1840), 65–75. + + + + (pp. 589–593) + Vita sancti Dubricii + BHL 2339 + Incipit Vita sancti Durbricij Archiepiscopi vrbis Legionum xviij Kl Decembris + Quidam Rex Ercychi regionis Pepiau nomine clavorauc uocatus britannice Latine vero spumosus qui super inimicos suos iuit in expeditionem + cum data benedictione et cum donatione omnibus auxiliantibus ad inceptum opus. + + Ed. J. Gwenogvryn Evans and John Rhys, The Text of the Book of Llan Dâv, Series of Welsh Texts 4 (Oxford, 1893), 78–96. + Ed. W. J. Rees, The Liber Landavensis, Llyfr Teilo, or, The Ancient Register of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts 1 (Llandovery: Rees, 1840), 75–83. + + + + (pp. 593–596) + Vita sancti Bernaci + BHL 1186 + Incipit Vita sancti bernachi + Elegit sibi dominus virum de filiis israel iuxta cor suum bernacium nomine venustis ornatum moribus titulisque virtutum insignibus excellentem. + quando infundebatur frigida permanebat. Nec magis igne + The following leaf has been excised, ending before the conclusion (ed. Rees, p. 11). + + Ed. W. J. Rees, Lives of the Cambro British Saints, of the Fifth and Immediate Succeeding Centuries, Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts 4 (Llandsvery: Rees, 1853), 1–12. + + parchment + i (modern paper endleaf) + 4 (medieval endleaves and contents list, pp. i–viii) + 298 (pp. 1–596) + 4 (pp. 597-604, medieval and early modern endleaves), i (modern paper endleaf) + 365 + 270 + + + Early modern pagination. A nineteenth-century hand has annotated pp. 581–596 with further numbers, pp. 585–600, but the original pagination is accurate. + + 14 (pp. i–viii), 2–378 (pp. 1–576), 384 (pp. 577–584), 398–2 (pp. 585–596; 2nd and 8th excised), 304 (pp. 597–604; 3rd and 4th partially cut away). + Contemporary catchwords, written vertically. + + + Ruled in red for 2 columns of 46 lines, ruled space + 240 + 150 + + + + + Gothic cursiva antiquior. + - Good border. - Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander i. 796) + Floriated border in gold leaf and colours on the opening page (p. 1). (Pächt and Alexander i. 796) + Text opens with a nine-line initial in gold leaf on a red and blue background (p. 1). + New lives open with three-line initials in blue with red pen flourishing. + New sections open with coloured initials, alternating between blue and red. + Rubricated headings and running heads. + + +

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard, 19th century.

+ + - 1499 - - French - + 1499 + (?) France +

The colophon (p. 581) records that the book was written by Jacobus Neell, a Norman from Rouen.

 - - Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church (?) : 'Perfectum est hoc opus wlgariter intitulatum De sanctis Anglie, ad laudem et honorem omnipotentis dei ac sancte Cantuariensis ecclesie ex impensis reverendi in Christo patris domini Thome Goleston, eiusdem ecclesie prioris ac sacrarum litterarum professoris egregii, per me Iacobum Neell Normannum ac Rothomagi natum anno verbi incarnati 1499 deo gratias.' (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)). - Cf. Horstman, Nova Legenda, 1. xv. (MLGB3) + Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: the colophon (p. 581) indicates that the book was commissioned and paid for by Thomas Goldston, prior of Canterbury from 1495–1517 (MLGB3). + According to a pencil note in the official copy of the catalogue this manuscript contained the inscription Olim possedit Jac. Ofcote (?) miles, but this appears to have been lost when the volume was rebound. Thomas Tanner, 1674–1735 @@ -69,8 +151,7 @@ - - Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomæ Tanneri, S.T.P., episcopi Asaphensis, complectens, Quarto Catalogues IV, repr. 1966, with corrections, from the ed. of 1860). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). + Description by Andrew Dunning (November 2023). Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomæ Tanneri, S.T.P., episcopi Asaphensis, complectens, Quarto Catalogues IV, repr. 1966, with corrections, from the ed. of 1860). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 82 @@ -98,7 +179,7 @@ Printed descriptions: - A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), + A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 704 @@ -109,6 +190,7 @@ + Andrew Dunning Revised with consultation of original. Add provenance information from MLGB3. Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project. @@ -123,4 +205,4 @@

- \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/persons.xml b/persons.xml index 560634c9e8..36aa81b28f 100644 --- a/persons.xml +++ b/persons.xml @@ -212660,6 +212660,25 @@ Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 63) num. 251]; https://www.google.co.uk/ + + Neell, Jacobus, 15th century, of Rouen + Neill, James + Neell, Jacques + + + Goldston, Thomas, 1450?–1517 + + + + + + + Wikidata + + + + + diff --git a/works.xml b/works.xml index 571f8fc706..e7b4af4e99 100644 --- a/works.xml +++ b/works.xml @@ -75610,13 +75610,23 @@ Mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche deutsche Übersetzungen --> - Nova Legenda Angliae [Latin] - noua legenda anglie + John of Tynemouth + Sanctilogium Angliae Walliae Scotiae et Hiberniae [Latin] MS. Tanner 15 - Nova legenda Anglie, ed. C. Horstmann, 2 vols., Oxford, 1901 - + A rearranged version with fifteen + additional lives, was printed by W. de Worde as Noua legenda Anglie (1516), + ed. C. Horstman (Oxford 1901). + + + + + Mirabile + + + +