[Regia-NA] That Wheelbarrow Manuscript

[Carolyn Priest-Dorman]

Okay, so there I was at the dining room table, helping brainstorm a new 
kitchen worktable for our Pennsic camp, when I came upon another 
reproduction of that 13th century manuscript illumination with the 
wheelbarrow.  It's in this book.

         Goldstream, Nicola.  _Masons and Sculptors_.  Medieval Craftsmen 
series.  University of Toronto Press [British Museum Press], 1991.  ISBN 
0-8020-6916-9.

The relevant page number is 11, illustration 9.  The manuscript number and 
folio number Goldstream gives are Trinity College Dublin 177, fol. 
59v.  That manuscript is Matthew Paris's "Lives of St. Alban and St. 
Amphibalus."  Goldsmith lists it with a different manuscript number than 
the book in which I originally saw it.  Perhaps that accounts for my not 
being able to find it in any of the compilations I checked at the time I 
found it. ;/

Anyway, so I rechecked and found a catalogue entry for the manuscript in 
this source.

         Morgan, Nigel.  _Early Gothic Manuscripts [I] 1190-1250_.  A 
Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 4, part 
1.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1982.  ISBN 019-921026-8.

The catalogue entry is number 85 ("Dublin, Trinity College MS 177 
[E.I.40]), on pages 130-133.  It says the manuscript is dated to circa 
1240-1250.

I feel much better now that's solved.  It was really bothering me that I 
couldn't find a reference to the darned thing.  My eyes told me it was 13th 
century, and there I was, forced to check in the (shudder) 15th century 
volume, just to be sure I hadn't totally misjudged!

And while I'm at it, I think I have to go write someone about those 13th 
century coifs on the cover of _Masons and Sculptors_.... ;>


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html