Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 88
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Latin MS 88
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- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Gospel of Matthew
- Prologue to Mark
- Gospel of Mark
- Prologue to Luke
- Gospel of Luke
- Prologue to John
- Gospel of John, ending imperfectly
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- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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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. 163 (i+161+i) Leaf height: 228 mm, width: 155 mm.
Binding:
Black morocco binding with gold tooling. Bateman crest (crescent on a star between wings) on the back
Modern
Decoration:
Folio 4v: outline decorative initial
Folio 11v: full-page frontispiece to Matthew, in brown and black outline only. The frame contains a small lion. The Evangelist, beardless, sits facing right, and holding a scroll: desk, with sloping top, on ornamental shaft, on right. In the upper right corner an angel in air (horizontal), holding a scroll
Folio 12v: full-page initial L and frame in red and black outline. The words '(L)iber generationis I. C. filii David filii Abraham' were meant to be inserted.
Folio 59v: Outline. Mark, beardless, sits writing on a scroll on desk on right. Winged lion, proceeding from a cloud above on right, holds a book. The text begins: 'Ecce mitto angelum' (the first words not being inserted), and has two good outline initials.
Folio 86v: There may have been an outline picture to Luke here but if so, it has been written upon.
Folio 87r: Decorative initial.
Folio 129r: Outline figure of John facing right and holding scroll, of which the end lies on a desk on right. The eagle faintly seen above on right, the frame also faintly indicated.
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, 22 lines to a page
Collation:
Quire 18
Quire 22
Quires 3-108
Quire 1110
Quires 12-158
Quire 1610
Quire 178
Quire 1810, 9 cancelled
Quire 198
Quire 208
Quire 212
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):
Religion; Christianity; Bible. Latin--Versions--Vulgate; Bible. New Testament
Abstract:
Gospel Book from Lower Saxony, made in the eleventh century. The only manuscript to have survived from the early medieval library at Walbeck near Magdeburg.
Foliation:
Foliated 1-161.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
Was in the Libri collection: it is no. 358 in the Sale Catalogue of 1859
Passed into the Bateman Library: it was lot 741 in the sale of 1893.
bought by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford in the Bateman Sale of May 1893 for £93 (CLL, May-Aug. 1893, no. 417; CLI, 1892-94, no. 153); he had been prepared to offer £120.
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- Rights
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