by Michael Gorman, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 2-3)īernhard Bischoff, Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. Patrick McGurk, ‘The Oldest Manuscripts of the Latin Bible’ in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West, The Medieval Book, 1 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), no. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), i, no. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 1 (London: Harvey Miller, 1978), p. The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, 2 vols (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1970) I, pp. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. Lowe, English Uncial (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), pp. Bell, 'Leaves of an early Bible MS', British Museum Quarterly 12 (1938), 39-40.Į. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no.177. The Bankes leaf was formerly used as a cover, with the verso on the outside, for certified copies of documents relating to the ownership of the manor of Langton Wallis, the Isle of Purbeck, and apparently assembled for its sale in 1585 by Sir Francis Willoughby to Sir Christopher Hatton.Ĭodices Latini Antiquiores, ed. 37777 and the Bankes Leaf, Loan 81, are fragments from the same manuscript that was one of the three uncial Bibles commissioned by Abbot Ceolfrith (689-716) for Wearmouth and Jarrow, and for the Pope. īede records that having visited Rome with his abbot, Benedict Biscop in 678, Ceolfrid himself 'added three pandects of the new translation to the one of the old translation that he had brought from Rome'.Īdd. Presented to the British Museum by the Friends of the National Libraries in 1937.įull digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at. Purchased from Lord Middleton for the British Museum in 1937 by the Friends of the National Libraries. Davis, Medieval Cartularies, (2010), nos. Leaves used as covers of the 16th-century documents of the lands of the Willoughby family labels relating to the deeds are written upside down in the margins (ff. Comm., Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton preserved at Wollaton Hall, by W. The Willoughby family, Barons Middleton of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (see Hist. The same markings are found in Add MS 37777. 2v) added in red ink, probably at a monastery in the Midlands (first half of the 14th century). Modern chapter number and a note marking the division between 3 and 4 Kings (f. Perhaps the ‘Great Bible’ recorded at Worcester Cathedral, to which Bishop Wulfstan II ordered copies of the cathedral's important documents to be added during the late 11th century (see Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, ed. 690–716) (see Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, ed. Amiatino I) probably copied in the Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow or Wearmouth, on the orders of Abbot Ceolfrith (r. Part of one of three large Bibles (another being the Codex Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS. 1–11 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 16 at the end). The beginning of 4 Kings is marked by a single initial P in black with red dots and, in the margin, the Chi Rho monogram flanked by alpha and omega (f. (Northumbria, Wearmouth/Jarrow)įirst lines of chapters in red or blue and initials in red. Bible, a fragment from the Book of Kings (the 'Middleton Leaves', part of the Ceolfrith Bible)Įngland, N.
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