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I.—The Egerton Genesis and the M. R. James Memorial MS.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

Eric G. Millar
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In 1860 the British Museum purchased at Christie's a remarkable volume of illustrations to the Book of Genesis, which is now numbered Egerton MS. 1894. It formed part of a miscellaneous collection known as the Vienna Museum, which was said in the sale-catalogue to have been begun by the Emperor Maximilian I and enlarged by his grandson the Emperor Rudolph II, and to have been sold in 1782 to a certain Chevalier von Schönfeld, who added his own collection to it and opened it to the public under the title of the Technological Museum of Vienna. When sold in 1860 it was the property of Messrs. Lowenstein brothers of Frankfort on the Main.

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Archaeologia , Volume 87 , 1938 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1938

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page 1 note 1 Illustrations of the Book of Genesis, being a complete reproduction in Facsimile of the Manuscript, British Museum, Egerton 1894, with an Introduction by M. R. James … Oxford, Printed for presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1921, pp. 2–4.

page 1 note 2 On p. 6 he writes ‘in fact 1360 does not seem to me too low a date’.

page 3 note 1 The text of the Psalter, f. 39 (see pl. IV) begins, ‘Beatus uir qui non abiit in consilio impiorumet in uia peccatorum non stetit: et in cathedra id est iudicio pestilencie id est falsitatis non sedit. Beneit soit le bier que ne foreie el consail de sen grees et ne estuet en la voie des peccheours: et ne siet el iuggement de fausine.’

page 3 note 2 E.g. the Kalendar contains, in red, John of Beverley (7th May), Godric (21st May), Oswin (20th August), Aidan (31st August), and the Translation of St. Cuthbert, marked ‘duplex’ (4th September), and, in black, Kentigern (13th January), Oswald, archbishop (28th February), Chad (1st March), Patrick (16th March), Wilfrid, bishop and martyr (24th April), Oswald, king and martyr (5th August), Paulinus (10th October), and Wilfred, bishop (12th October), while the Litany includes Martyrs Oswald, Confessors Cuthbert, Aidan, William [of York], Wilfred, Chad, Hugh [of Lincoln], Godric, Patrick, Bede, Virgins Ebba.

page 4 note 1 These are fully recoverable under the ultra-violet lamp.

page 5 note 1 I have to thank Mr. F. Wormald for this list.