Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 104
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Latin MS 104
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- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Prologue to Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti, beginning imperfectly
- Capitula monachorum
- Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti, liber secundus
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- Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
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- Author
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- Smaragdus, 760-840
- Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
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- Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis (0750?-0825?)
- Smaragdus
- SMARAGDUS
- Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
- Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis
- SMARAGDUS, O.S.B.
- Smaragde de Saint Mihiel 0750?-0825?
- Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, fl. 809-819
- Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis -830
- Smaragdus van Sint-Mihiel
- Author: Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis
- Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, c 750-c 825, Abbot of St Mihiel-sur-Meuse
- Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
- Smaragdus, abbas sancti Michaelis, active 809-819
- Smaragde de saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
- Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis, 750-830
- Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis Virdunensis
- Smaragdus, O.S.B., ?-829 > , co-autor
- Smaragdus, ?-829, O.S.B.
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- Guillaume Libri (1803-1869)
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- Former owner
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- Libri, Guglielmo, 1803-1869
- Guglielmo Libri, (b. 1803, d. 1869), academic, book collector and book thief
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- Libri, Guillaume (1803-1869)
- Guillaume Libri
- Libri
- Libri, Guillaume
- Guglielmo Libri
- Guillaume Libri (1803-1869)
- Former possessor: Libri, Guillaume
- Libri, Guglielmo, Unspecified, Count, of Add MS 38128
- Libri, Guillaume (1803-1869). Ancien possesseur
- Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
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- Former owner
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 186 (i+185) Leaf height: 252 mm, width: 190 mm.
Binding:
Skin over boards, with faint traces of a stamped pattern: two pastedowns from a huge choir book of the 15th or 16th century with music on a four-line stave
Not before 1400 - the earliest possible date for the pastedowns
Decoration:
Red and green ink extensively used.
Decoration mainly confined to the initials of chapters. These are in many cases drawn in outline, and the space between the lines filled in with colour, red, green, or yellow. Gold does not occur. Occasionally bird-forms are to be found.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.
Layout:
1 column, 27 lines to a page
Collation:
1 endleaf
Quire 18, wants 4 and 5
Quires 2-68
Quire 76
Quires 8-238
Quire 246, 6 a fragment
1 endleaf
Script:
Written in a Visigothic miniscule.
Data Source(s):
Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Benedictine monasteries; Commentaries
Abstract:
Smaragdus's commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, produced at the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in the first decade of the tenth century.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
Sold at Christie's on 7th February 1895 in a small sale comprising some manuscripts and drawings given by Guglielmo Libri, (b. 1803, d. 1869), academic, book collector and book thief as a security to one of his creditors. It was purchased there by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford for £211 (CLL, Jan.-March 1895, nos. 92, 96, 101).
Additions:
Corrections are made in a thin hand, in the last instance the scrihe has left a space hlank in the line, and there is not room to insert the whole of the word required.
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