Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 40

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS508

Shelfmark:

Poole 40

Title:

Lives of the Saints
III. KLS. Augusti. Passio
Saints lives

Author:

Ælfric

Ælfric of Eynsham WIKIDATA

Scribe:

One

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

s. XI(1/4); 1000-1025

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Anglo-Saxon

Old English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One fragment: 2-line 'O' in red enclosiing a simply decorated capital 'N in line 24; a little pencil cross in the left-hand margin s in Libri's hand (1802-1869) as an indication of copying for engraving.
Script, One fragment: English vernacular minuscule.
Layout, One fragment: 2 contiguous vertical strips sewn together forming the inner portion of a single leaf (about a third of the full leaf), ruling not visible, 32 lines, written-space 252 mm. by 66 mm (of approximately 126 mm).

Former Owner(s):

Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, part of lot 1111 ("Fragmenta Vetusta ...some of the smallest fragments being also in the Anglo-Saxon language", with Poole MS 41); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), not obviously from his MS 22229 (the reference given by Ker).

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, part of lot 1111 ("Fragmenta Vetusta ...some of the smallest fragments being also in the Anglo-Saxon language", with Poole MS 41); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), not obviously from his MS 22229 (the reference given by Ker).

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

from the collection of specimen leaves formed by Messrs. W.H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillipps library in 1945-46, sold by them to George A. Poole in 1947, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.

George Amos Poole WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: The sewn fragments are from the inner portion of a single leaf (about a third of the full leaf). Strips were recovered from a bookbinding, formerly sewing guards probably at each end of a single binding, offsets from the binding's leather turn-ins on recto.. Three other pieces are known from the same manuscript, or possibly set of manuscripts, which also contained Ælfric's...
Bibliography: Collins, 1960; Faye and Bond 1962, p. 181; Collins and Clemoes 1974; Collins 1976, pp. 40-42, no. 3b; Ker 1976, pp. 123-4; Gneuss 1981, p. 13, no. 146; Fausbøll 1986, pp. 9-10; Hill 1996, pp. 243 and 244-7; Clemoes 1997, pp. 54-5; Stoneman 1997, pp. 103, 106 and 118; Gneuss 2001, p. 42; Stokes 2005, I, pp. 7 (n. 23) and 152 and II, pp. 47-8, as no. g. 146.
One fragment: The script links the manuscript to a group of other surviving fragments all with texts by Ælfric. They are all written in the distinct style of Englush vernacular minusucle which includes traces of the earlier 'square minuscule', commonly written at Christ church, Canterbury. Ten different scribes were involved among the handful of manuscripts. A palaeographically related cluster...
One fragment: Latin.
One fragment: The fragment shows the end of the life of Saint Apollonaris (feast day 23 July), part of the lives of Saints Abdon and Sennes (feast day 30 July, here expressed in Latin as iii. kal. Augusti), and a few words from the opening of the accompanying letter which Christ is said to have written to Abgarus (Skeat 1966, I, pp. 484-6, no. XXII, lines 213-53, and II, pp. 54-8, no. XXIV...

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Poole40_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole40_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington