Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 182
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- Latin MS 182
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- Latin
- Title
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- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
- Bede's Annals and the Continuatio Bedae
- Visio Wettini (fragment)
- De duobus clericis (fragment)
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- Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
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- Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
- Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
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- Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
- Beda Venerabilis
- Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
- BEDA VENERABILIS
- BEDA
- Beda
- BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
- Bède
- S. Beda venerabilis
- Venerabilis Bedae
- Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
- Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
- S. Beda Venerabilis
- Venerabilis BEDE
- Bede
- Bedae
- Bedae venerabilis
- Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
- Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
- Beda el Venerable, Santo
- Beda Venerabilis 672-735
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Author: Beda, Venerabilis
- Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
- Bede (attributed to)
- Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
- Bede the Venerable
- Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
- Bede (673/4–735)
- The Venerable Bede
- Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
- Beda<Venerabilis>
- Bède le Vénérable
- Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
- Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
- Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
- Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
- Beda <Venerabilis>
- Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
- Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
- Beda Venerabilis - 673 - 735 - auteur
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- Heito Basiliensis (07..-0836)
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- Haito, 763-826
- Haito, (b. 763, d. 826), monk and bishop of Basel
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- Haito Basileensis (0763-0836)
- Heito Augiensis
- Hetton de Bâle ca. 763 - 836
- Hatto Basiliensis ca. 763 - 836
- Author: Hatto, Basiliensis
- Heito, approximately 762-836
- Hatto Basel, Bischof, 762-836
- Hatto von Reichenau, Bischof von Basel (?)
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- Walafrid Strabon (0808?-0849)
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- Strabo, Walahfrid, 808-849
- Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
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- WALAFRIDUS STRABO
- Walafridus Strabo
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- Walafrid Strabon 0808?-0849
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- Walafried Strabo
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- Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849
- Walahfridus Strabo 808-849
- Author: Walahfridus, Strabo
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- Walahfredus Augiensis abbas
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- Walahfrid, Strabo, Reichenau, Abt, 808-849
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- Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
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- Former owner
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- Phillips, Thomas, 1792-1872
- Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
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- Phillipps (Thomas)
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- Seller: Phillipps, Thomas
- Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
- Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 (bookstamp)
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- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
- Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872
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- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899)
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- Former owner
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- Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher
- Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899
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- Quaritch, Bernard (1819-1899)
- Bernard Quaritch
- Bernard Quaritch, 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch, Limited
- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), bookseller and publisher
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 168 Leaf height: 280 mm, width: 190 mm.
Binding:
The sewing consists of a herringbone stitch along three equally-spaced sewing stations, which might suggest the use of a sewing frame. The binding is in essence original, including the wooden boards and their heavily-worn covering in tawed (or alum-tawed) skin, both of which have been affected by bookworms in places identical to the damage exhibited on the internal sheets of parchment. The skin has been stretched tightly around the wooden boards and sewn together on the inside (stitched mitred corners). Judging by a series of nail holes, each board once had a round centre boss and four corner bosses. The remains of two fastening clasps or straps survive on the back board, consisting of square brass fittings (16x16 mm) that have been fixed with copper nails and decorated with a punched cross in the centre and a dotted line along the edges. Rather than being fixed on the front of the board, these fastenings sat on the edge. All known examples of such Romanesque edge fastenings originate in Germany, which is consistent with the other evidence for the manuscript' early ownership history. The corresponding fittings on the front board are missing. Underneath the rear fittings survive the remains of the two straps. These are constructed from parchment that has been rolled tightly and flatted/compressed before being wrapped with a piece of alum-tawed skin. The wrapping shows traces of pink pigment, probably cochineal. The same combination of alum-tawed skin and cochineal dye can also be found on the endband of MS Latin 182, which shows both primary and secondary sewing. For the primary sewing, linen thread was used around a core of rolled parchment (similar to the straps), followed by a secondary sewing using pink alum-tawed skin in a technique that is representative of a sizeable corpus of similar braided endbands from twelfth-century Germany
Underwent several stages of restoration and repair (completed before James's examination in 1921), as is still visible on the book boards, the binding and, in particular, along the spine.
Twelfth century
Acquisition:
Purchased for the John Rylands Library by Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher at the Phillipps Sale on 6 June 1910.
Layout:
Two columns, 31 lines per page.
Collation:
Quires 1-128
Quire 138, wants 4 and 5
Quires 14-208
Quire 218, wants 8
Quire 228, wants 2, 3, 6, 7: 8 stuck to cover
Script:
Written in an upright 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), and Benjamin Pohl, (Re-)Framing Bede's Historia ecclesiastica in twelfth-century Germany: John Rylands Library, MS Latin 182, in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 93:1 (2017),pp. 67-119, revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Church history; Eighth century
Abstract:
Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, with the Continuo Bedae and two miracle stories, formerly owned by - and possibly produced at - the Benedictine Abbey of (Mönchen-)Gladbach, Germany in the twelfth century.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
Housed at the monastery of Gladbach until its dissolution in 1802.
Bought at auction by Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
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