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A Twelfth-Century Scriptrix from Nunnaminster
- Title:
- A Twelfth-Century Scriptrix from Nunnaminster
- Author:
- Robinson, P. R.
- Location:
- Aldershot
- Notes:
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- CCCC MS 57 Discusses CCCC MS 57 and its copy of Smaragdus, Diadema; although it is the largest suriving copy from England before 1100 it is not large enough to be intended for public reading, unlike the copy produced by the female scribe at Nunnaminster during the twelfth century. States that CCCC MS 57 was written c. 1000 and belonged to Abingdon; notes that it also contains a copy of the Rule of St Benedict and Usuard’s Martyrology, p. 78
- CCCC MS 163 Cites Michael Lapidge’s suggestion (inTransactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 8) that CCCC MS 163 may have been copied by a nun on account of the ordinal containing only the ordines for the consecration of women, in a discussion of a twelfth-century female scribe from Nunnaminster, p. 84
- CCCC MS 173 Notes that Malcolm Parkes has argued (various articles repr. in his Scribes, Scripts and Readers) that a number of manuscripts, including part of CCCC MS 173, were written in a scriptorium at St Mary’s Abbey, Winchester (i.e. Nunnaminster), and thus likely by female scribes; here Robinson examines evidence of a twelfth-century female scribe at Nunnaminster; identifies some additions made to other manuscripts by the first hand of CCCC MS 173, pp. 73, 84-5
- Editor:
- Robinson, P. R. and Zim, R.
- Pages:
- 73–93
- Book Title:
- Of the Making of Books. Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers. Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes
- Reference Type:
- Book section
- Manuscript:
- dw493fs0065