MS. Tanner 190

Summary Catalogue no.: 10016

Rubric: Incipiunt secreta facta propter conservacionem fidelium quam propter conversionem seu consumptionem infidelium quamque etiam ad acquirendam et tuendam terram sanctam et alias multas terras, Deo dante, in bono statu pacifico et quieto.

pr. Gesta Dei per Francos, ed. J. Bongars, II (Hanover, 1611) 1–288.

tr. The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. by Peter Lock, Crusade Texts in Translation (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 210+i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 222 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 33 lines, column space 180 × 67 mm.

Decoration

One of a group of manuscripts of this text with similar illustrations mostly produced in the same workshop; cf. Brussels, Bibl. Royale, MSS. 9404-5 and 9347-8, and Venice, Marciana, Lat. Z. 547 (1924) (Pächt and Alexander ii. 118, pl. XI)

Fine miniatures.

Fine maps.

Fine historiated borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Binding

15th-century English binding, blind-tooled in calf, by the 'Scales' binder (N. Barker, 'A register of writs and the Scales binder', The Book Collector 21 (1972), 227-244, 356-79, no. 17 (p. 376)); rebacked, 17th century. For further discussion see N. Barker, 'Tanner 190 Revisited', in Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards, ed. C. M. Meale and D. Pearsall, (2014) 78-88, and the Bodleian Library conservation report of October 2012 (=REFS. CXXXIV.1).

History

Origin: c. 1321–1324 ; Italian, Venice

Provenance and Acquisition

Presentation copy for Robert VII, count of Auvergne.

Charles V and Charles VI of France: identifiable in inventories (Barker, 'Scales binder', 363).

Brought to England after the dispersal of the French royal library in 1425; bound in London by the Scales binder.

Thomas Tanner, 1674–1735

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1735.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Nov. 2022) from the following sources, with reference to published literature as cited.

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 706

A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomæ Tanneri, S.T.P., episcopi Asaphensis, complectens, Quarto Catalogues IV, repr. 1966, with corrections, from the ed. of 1860

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 118

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 87

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 630

Digital Images

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