Eadmer, Vita Beati Wilfridi Episcopi; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica
| Manuscript location | ||
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| Place | ||
| Repository | Art Gallery of Ballarat | |
| Collection | ||
| Shelf mark | Ms. Art Gallery of Ballarat, MS Crouch 10 | |
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| Manuscript name | ||
| Name | Vita Beati Wilfridi Episcopi; Bede Historia Ecclesiastica ('The life of the blessed bishop Wilfrid; The Ecclesiastical History of Bede') | |
| Contents | ||
| Summary | 1. Eadmer, Vita Sancti Wilfridi Episcopi 1r. Incipit uita sancti wilfridi eboracensis archiepiscopi. ANNO igitur ab incarnatione uerbi dei sexcentesimo tricesimo quarto regnante in cantia filio gloriosissimi edelberti regis… 2. Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica (excerpt) 34r. (Opening abruptly in Book III, xxv) Probauit dicens Pascha quod facimus uidimus rome…(these excerpts end with the first sentence of Bk III. xxvi). 36r. (Opening abruptly in Bk V, xix) Defunctus est autem in monasterio suo quod habebat in prouincia…(ends 36v. with the twenty-line epitaph)…Transiit et gaudens celestia regna petiuit / Dona ihesu ut grex pastoris calle sequatur. | |
| Physical description | ||
| Support | Vellum | |
| Dimensions | 225 x 160 mm | |
| Extent | i - iii (modern paper) + 37 fols. (parchment) + iv - vi (modern paper). ir., iir.- iiv., iiiv., 37r. - 37v., ivr - viv are blank. | |
| Collation | 1-48, 55. | |
| Catchwords | No catchwords. | |
| Signatures | Some quire signatures. | |
| Foliation | Modern pencil foliation by Arabic numerals. No pagination. | |
| Condition | Edges trimmed. | |
| Layout | 24-28 long lines, ruled in plummet, dark brown ink and dry point; Text: 180 x 130 mm. | |
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| Scripts | Second half of twelfth century English literra prae-gothica textualis. | |
| Decoration | Illuminated in ink & watercolour. Red rubrics and capitals. One initial coloured red, blue and green (1r.). Covers bear outer panel of stylised leaf pattern in gilt and inner panel with floral design in blind. Spine has gilt lettering VITA / S. / WILFRIDI / M.S. | |
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| Binding | Leather binding, satin cord, nineteenth-century Russian over boards. | |
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| History | ||
| Origin | Northern England, 1150-1200. | |
| Provenance | “The earliest owner of whom there is record is Sir William Betham. He sold it on 6 July 1830 (lot no. 437) to Thomas Thorpe from whom it passed to Sir Thomas Phillipps who numbered it 13562 (printed number on spine and Av.); the MS. Was lot no.1299 in Phillipps sale, London 1896 when it was acquired by Bernard Quaritch; it appeared as lot no. 463 in the George Dunn Sale, 11 February 1913…, then as lot no. 1167 in the J. Pearson Sale on 7 December 1924 at which it was purchased by James Tregaskis and Son of London; inside the front cover is the armorial book-plate (motto UBIQUE FIDELIS) of Boies Penrose II; the codex was presented in 1944 to the Gallery by R.A. Crouch and is now MS. Crouch 10.”[1] [1] K.V. Sinclair, Descriptive Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Western Manuscripts in Australia, Sydney, 1969, p. 286 | |
| Acquisition | Presented to the Art Gallery of Ballarat by Colonel the Honourable R.A. Crouch in 1944. | |
| Bibliography | ||
| Bibliography list | K.V. Sinclair, Descriptive Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Western Manuscripts in Australia, Sydney, 1969, pp. 285-287. M.M. Manion and V.F. Vines, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australian Collections, London, 1984, p. 129. | |
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| Digital copies | http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/168012 |