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Life of St Alban, folio 62v
Matthew ParisMid 13th century
The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Matthew Paris' hagiographical account of the patron saint of the monastery of St Alban. The text contains a series of illustrations depicting scenes from the life of St Alban, venerated as the first-ever British martyr.
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- Title: Life of St Alban, folio 62v
- Creator: Matthew Paris
- Date Created: Mid 13th century
- Location: St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Original Language: Latin
- Subject Keywords: Manuscripts, Latin, Illuminated Manuscripts, Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
- Collection: Illuminating the Middle Ages
- Catalogue Number: TCD MS 177
- Bibliography: For TCD MS 177 see especially J. Ussher, Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates in The Whole Works of the Most Reverend James Ussher, D.D., ed. C.R. Elrington (and partly J.H. Todd), (Dublin, 1847-1864), 17 volumes, 5: 190; T.D. Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the End of the Reign of Henry VII, Rolls Series, (London, 1862-1871), 3 volumes in 4, 1:8, 14-18; ed. R. Atkinson, Vie de seint Auban, (London, 1876), [v]-xii (early references to the codex, including James Ussher’s, are discussed on v-vi, ix); J. Vising, Anglo-Norman Language and Literature, (London, 1923), number 115; M. Esposito in Revue de bibliothèques 24 (1914) 197; A. Långfors, Les incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au xvie siècle, (Paris, 1917), 397; James et al. o.c.; E.G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century, (Paris and Brussels, 1926), 58, 59, pl. 89; P. Grosjean in Analecta Bollandiana 46 (1928) 96-97; O.E. Saunders, English Illumination 1, (Florence and Paris, 1928), 78; A.T. Baker in Romania 55 (1929) 340-341; English Mediaeval Art, catalogue of an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, (London, 1930), 27; F. Wormald in Bulletin of The John Rylands Library 35 (1952) 263 n.3; R. Vaughan in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 1 (1953) 376-394 passim with pl. xvi and in Matthew Paris, (Cambridge, 1958), 168-173, 177-178, 195-198, 206-221, 227-228, 267, pl. 8; M.J. Rickert, Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages, Pelican History of Art 5, (Melbourne, London, Baltimore 1954), 119, 120, 134; N.R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, second edition, Royal Historical Society, (London, 1964), 166; G. Henderson in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 30 (1967) 73-82, 89, 112, 115, 119 and Studies in English Bible Illustration 2, (London, 1985), 77-81, 126, 133, 157; Harden o.c. [on (4)] xii-xv; S.H. Thomson in Speculum 44 (1969) 464-465; M.W. Evans, Medieval Drawings, (London and New York, 1969), 29 with pl. 54; R.M. Thomson in Revue Bénédictine 83 (1973) 319; L. Shields, 'French Texts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin', Hermathena number 121 (1976), 90-99, 91, 93, 97 n.3; H. Zotter, Bibliographie faksimilierter Handschriften, (Graz, 1976), number 142; S. Patterson in The Library, 5th ser., 32.4 (1977) 367; K.V. Sinclair, Prières en ancien français, (Hamden, Connecticut, 1978), number 2095; McLeod t.c. [on (1)] 408-418 passim; R. Marks and N.J. Morgan, The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500, (New York, 1981), 34, 50, 53, pls. 6a, 6b, 7; F. McCulloch in Speculum 56 (1981) 761-785 with pls.; N.J. Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1) 1190-1250, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 4, (Edinburgh and Oxford, 1982), 12, 21, 22, 28, 31, 107, 108, 130-133, 135, 138, 143 with illustration numbers 279, 282-285; C. Leonardi in Medioevo latino 4 (1983) number 2708; L.E. Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction, (Toronto, 1984), no. 377; Sotheby’s catalogue for 24 June 1986, lot 40, pp. 34, 37-38; B. Meehan in Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin, (Dublin, 1986), 99, pls. 64, 66; Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora, (University of California Press, 1987), passim, with illustrs. For further bibliography on TCD MS 177 see Morgan o.c. 133. Cf. also N.J. Morgan in Burlington Magazine 130 (1988) 85-96. M.R. James, La estoire de Saint Aedward le Rei for Roxburghe Club, 1920. Birthe Kjøkbye Biddle, 'The Alban Cross' in Alban and St Albans: Roman and St Albans: Roman and medieval architecture art and archaeology, (ed. Matrin Henig and Phillip Lindley), British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXIV, (2001), pp. 85-110.
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