Manuscripts

Durham gospelbook VL 19A

Mid-7th century gospelbook written in Insular half-uncial, possibly by an Irish scribe in Northumbria. Fragments of it, twelve folia in total, are preserved in three manuscripts held by Durham Cathedral Library, which contain the end of Matthew and beginning of Mark. Together, these fragments constitute VL 19A in the Beuron numbering system for manuscripts of the Old Latin Bible.

Date
s. viimed
Latin language
Language
Latin language
Hands
Work in progress

Sources

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Stansbury, Mark [proj. dir.], and David Kelly [proj. dir.], Earlier Latin manuscripts: tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts, Online: Department of Classics and Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2016–. URL: <https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/>. 
abstract:
The Earlier Latin Manuscripts Project is a database of manuscripts written in Latin before the year 800 based on the work of E. A. Lowe and his assistants published in Codices Latini Antiquiores. The work for this project was conducted in the Department of Classics and the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland Galway. Funding for its completion was contributed by both the Moore Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. [...] Data from the database can be accessed in 3 ways, each subject to the license above: # Via the web front-end, accessible using the menu above; # By downloading a .csv file containing some or all of the data. This option is presented at the top of the catalogue page where you can filter and refine the data you would like to download; # By accessing the data via a JSON API (Application Programming Interface). Documentation on accessing data using this method is provided in the Technical Overview Section.
(source: website (November 2016))
[id. 460.] direct link
Haelewyck, Jean-Claude, “Un nouveau témoin vieux latin de Marc: le MS. Durham Cathedral Library, A.II.10+C.III.13+C.III.20”, Revue Bénédictine 122 (2012): 5–12.  
abstract:
Le manuscrit Durham, Cathedral Library A.II.10 + C.III.13 + C.III.20, contient le texte latin de plusieurs fragments de Matthieu et de Marc. Parmi les fragments de Mc (1,1 - 6,6 + 8,39 - 14,55), la section 2,12 - 3,21 a conservé un nombre élevé de leçons vieilles latines. L’article en fait le relevé complet. La comparaison menée avec les autres témoins vieux latins permet de conclure que les leçons vieilles latines du ms. de Durham sont de type européen apparenté au sous-groupe gallo-irlandais (attesté par r1 = VL 14). Dans le système de Beuron, ce nouveau fragment recevra le sigle VL 19A. The Durham Cathedral Library Manuscript A.II.10 + C.III.13 + C.III.20, contains several fragments of the Latin text of Matthew and Mark. Among the Markan fragments (1,1 - 6,6 + 8,39 - 14,55), section 2,12 - 3,21 preserves a large number of Old Latin readings. All these variants have been noted and compared with the other Old Latin manuscripts of Mark in order to characterize their text-type. The conclusion is clear: they belong to the European type, more precisely to the Welsh-Irish subgroup (attested by r1 = VL 14). In the Beuron system this new fragment will receive the number VL 19A.
Henderson, George David Smith, From Durrow to Kells: the insular Gospel-books, 650-800, London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
27–29, 55–59
Alexander, Jonathan J. G., A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 1: Insular manuscripts, 6th-9th century, London: Miller, 1978.
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Mynors, R. A. B., Durham Cathedral manuscripts to the end of the twelfth century, Durham: Printed for the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral at University Press, Oxford, 1939.
Reed.dur.ac.uk: <link>
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 2: Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd ed., Codices Latini Antiquiores, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
[id. 147.]
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 2: Great Britain and Ireland, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.
[id. 147.]
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Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2021