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London, British Library, MS Additional 21917 Vitae sanctorum

  • Latin
  • s. xex/xiin
  • Continental manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
Additional 21917
Title

The binding bears an inscription with the title ‘Vitae sanctorum, auctore Adsone Abbate Luxoviensi’ (thus described in the Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum).

Type
legendaries
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xex/xiin
early 11th century (Jones).
Origin, provenance
Origin: LuxeuilLuxeuil
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
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Hands, scribes
L. W. Jones (1939) distinguishes between “seven major (A, B, C, E, F, C, H) and five (D, I, J, K, L) minor hands”. Only a few hands will be singled out for the purposes of this catalogue.
Hands indexed:
Hand A

Hand A, according to Jones, was responsible for 6r-41v and 146r-153v.

Hand B

Hand B, according to Jones, was responsible for 42r-71v, 83v-89v, 95v-135v, 188r-201r.22, 204v.10-bottom, 231v-265v.25 and 266r-266v. Jones observes that B is generally rounder than other hands and occasionally writes capital R rather than r at the end of the line.

Stephanus [scribe in BL MS Add. 21917]Stephanus ... scribe in BL MS Add. 21917
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Codicological information
Material
vellum
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: Protogothic
Distinct units
ff. i-v

Flyleaves.

ff. 1r-5v

Modern paper leaves, including notes by one of the manuscript's owners.

ff. vi-ix

Flyleaves at the back

Table of contents
Legend
Texts

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  3. - When a text has been ‘captured’, that is, a catalogue entry exists but is still awaiting publication, the same behaviour applies and a crossed eye icon is added.

The above method of differentiating between links has not been applied yet to texts or citations from texts which are included in the context of other texts, commonly verses.

Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.
Continental manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.
direct link

Secondary sources (select)

British Library: archives and manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <https://searcharchives.bl.uk>.
direct link
Jones, Leslie Webber, “Dom Victor Perrin and three manuscripts of Luxeuil”, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 23 (1939): 166–181.
esp. 174–178
Lawlor, H. J., “The manuscripts of the Vita S. Columbani”, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 32 (1902–1904): 1–132.
9–10
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
September 2020, last updated: January 2024
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