The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, Fols 1-12r)

Edition, Facsimile and Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78327-010-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 387 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 272 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g

First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England.

The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This liber vitae is one of only three such compilations surviving frommedieval England, the others being the Durham liber vitae (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A vii) and the New Minster liber vitae (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the names of confraters of the abbey, that is of those people who, through their friendship and gifts to the abbey, were included in the daily prayers of the monks of the community.
The present volume is the first complete edition of this important text, and includes a complete facsimile of the pages. It also contains studies of the manuscript context, of the names included and, where possible, the identities and relationship to the abbey of those named, many of whom are also entered in the priory cartulary known as the Red Book of Thorney. The introduction provides a wide-ranging historical context for the production of the liber vitae.

Lynda Rollason is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University.

With contributions from Richard Gameson, John Insley and Katharine Keats-Rohan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rollason, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historical Introduction
The Manuscript Context: The Thorney Gospels
The Personal Names of the Liber Vitae of Thorney Abbey: An Introduction to the Onomasticon
Introduction to the Prosopographical Study of the Thorney Liber Vitae
The Edition
The Thorney Liber Vitae: Planning, Production, and Palaeography
The Onomasticon
The Prosopography
The Goldsmith's Entry (4r1) (a): The Language of the Goldsmith's Entry
The Goldsmith's Entry (4r1) (b): Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmith's Entry
The Goldsmith's Entry (4r1) (c): Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmith's Entry
The Entry for Turstan of Stamford the Moneyer (10v57)
The Language of Folios 9v1, 10r1b-10r1d
The Thorney Relic-List, Folio 11v
Abbreviated References
Index 1: Linguistic Index: Manuscript Forms and Lemmata
Index 2: Lemmata, the Linguistic and Prosopographical Commentaries and the Introductory Essays

Über Autor(innen)

Lynda Rollason gained her PhD from the University of Durham.
With contributions from Richard Gameson, John Insley and Katharine Keats-Rohan.