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(Changed claim: associated name as recorded (P14): Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.) |
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| Property / associated name as recorded: Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961. / qualifier | |||
| Property / associated name as recorded: Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961. / qualifier | |||
Latest revision as of 19:56, 28 August 2023
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 177)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (DS500) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 177) |
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Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. IX(in); 800-815
9. century
800Gregorian
815Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Script, One fragment, upper half of a leaf: Insular pointed minuscule.
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Layout, One fragment, upper half of a leaf: 18 lines here (of 28), ruled in blind, written-space here 135 mm. high (of approximately 210 mm.) by c. 142 mm.
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Manuscript note: Fragment is upper half of a leaf recovered from a binding of an octavo volume, with a horizontal crease and paste stain across the lower edge.
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Bibliography: Phillipps 1837-71, p. 414; Schenkl 1892, p. 147; De Ricci 1935, p. 644; Laistner and King 1944, p. 96; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, p. xliv, n. 5; Gneuss 1981, p.50, no. 797; Bischoff and Brown 1985, p. 317; O'Keefe 1987, p. 145, n.2; Stoneman 1997, pp. 101, 104 and 111; Bischoff 1998, p. 138, no. 647; Zechiel-Eckes 2003, p. 29.
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One fragment, upper half of a leaf: The Ricketts fragment was written within a century of Bede's life and it was formerly ascribed to England, s. VIII (Colgrave and Mynors 1969; Gneuss 1981). Superb example of Anglo-Saxon/Insular minuscule. The other half of the Lilly leaf is in the Universitätsund Landesbibliotek, Düsseldorf, K1:B216. The Düsseldorf half was a fragment recovered from the...
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One fragment, upper half of a leaf: Latin.
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One fragment, upper half of leaf: Text is from near the end of Bede's Historical Ecclesiastica book V, chapter 13. This passage is part of the account of a man who lies dying and has a vision of an angel and a devil, each carrying books recording the man's good deeds and his sins, one volume bound in white and the other in black. As such it is a rare literary reference to books and...
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Incipit, One fragment, upper half of leaf: aetate bona.
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Explicit, One fragment, upper half of leaf: Sed mirabiliter.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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