Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 89
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- Latin MS 89
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- Latin
- Title
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- Fragment of a Kalendar for March
- Fragment of a Kalendar September-December
- Expositio Psalmorum
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- Preferred form
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- Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
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- Author
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- Senator, Cassiodorus, 485-580
- Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
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- CASSIODORIUS
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (0490?-0580?)
- Cassiodoro
- Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
- Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
- Cassiodorus
- CASSIODORUS (Magnus Aurelius)
- Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
- Cassiodori
- CASSIODORUS
- Cassiodore
- Cassiodore 0490?-0580?
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
- Casiodoro, Magno Aurelio
- Cassiodor, Flavi Magne Aureli, ca. 490-ca. 580
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius 490-583
- Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580
- Author: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Senator, c 485-585
- Cassiodorus Senator
- Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, senator, 485?-580?
- Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-583)
- Cassiodorus senator
- Cassiodorus senator servus Dei
- Aurelius Cassiodorus
- Cassiodoro, Flavio Magno Aurelio
- Cassiodore (v. 485-v. 580))
- Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ca.485-ca.580)
- Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580 > , co-autor
- Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580
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- Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1853-1930)
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- Joseph Zaehnsdorf (b. 1853, d, 1930), bookbinder
- Zaehnsdorf, Joseph, 1853-1930
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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. 414 (vii+401+vi) Leaf height: 465 mm, width: 345 mm.
Binding:
Massive wooden boards. The old skin coverings of the sides, with five plain metal bosses on each, have been preserved and relaid on modern pigskin; so has that of the back, which is quite plain.
Leaves and covers repaired by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (b. 1853, d, 1930), bookbinder at a cost of £14; an account of the extent of this work is given on the invoice, 9th June 1894 (CLI, 1892-94, no. 281).
Decoration:
Many decorated initials throughout the volume in red, blue, yellow, green and purple.
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:
2 columns, 38 lines to a page
Collation:
5 modern endleaves
4 old endleaves
Quire 18, wants 1
Quires 2-48, wants 4,5
Quires 5-168, wants 1
Quires 17-208
Quire 218, wants 1
Quires 22-498
Quire 5010, wants 10
Quire b2
Script:
Written in an upright 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):
Bible--Commentaries
Abstract:
Cassiodorus Senator, 'Expositio super psalmorum', written at the monastery of S Pedro de Cardeña in 949 CE.
Foliation:
Foliated 1-401, pencil top right.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
In the possession of the Bateman Library: lot 553 in the sale of 1893, when it was purchased by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford for £200, the limit to which he was prepared to go (CLL May-Aug. 1893, nos. 436, 453; CLI, 1892-94, no. 153 (31st May 1893).
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