ID: 700002318 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002318	Record Type: Movable Work
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De Vita et Conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis (illuminated manuscript; Unknown Flemish illuminator; Eadmer of Canterbury, author; around 1140-1150; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 83.MN.125; Ms. Ludwig XI 6)

Note: 96 folios, 2 full-page miniatures, 3 decorated initials. The biography of Saint Anselm was written in Latin (Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis) by his chaplain and secretary Eadmer (about 1055-1124) shortly after Anselm's death in 1109. Anselm had not only written a number of well-respected theological works, but he had also attempted to free his church from the interference of the English kings. In describing the exemplary life of Anselm, the text provided a role model for other monks to follow. Manuscripts such as this one would have been distributed to each monk to provide appropriate material for reading and contemplation. This particular copy of the biography was copied about a generation after it was originally composed, around the middle of the 1100s, probably at the Benedictine abbey of Saint Martin at Tournai (in modern-day Belgium). The decoration of the manuscript is executed in colored inks and makes considerable use of unpainted parchment, a technique commonly found in English manuscripts of the period.

Titles:

De Vita et Conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Life and Conversations of Anselm of Canterbury (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Ms. Ludwig XI 6 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

hagiography (literary genre) [300201063]

..... (Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>, biographies (literary genre))

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: around 1140-1150

Creator Display:

Unknown Flemish illuminator; Eadmer of Canterbury, author [preferred,JPGM]

illuminator unknown Flemish (Flemish cultural designation) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500125233]

author Eadmer of Canterbury (English monk, chronicler, ca. 1060-ca. 1128) [500107840]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 83.MN.125; Ms. Ludwig XI 6

Other: Creation: Tournai [7008002] Province de Hainaut (province), Wallonia (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold paint, and ink on parchment bound between wood boards covered with old brown calf

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	wood board [300162666]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, <wood by product>)

	calf (leather) [300227525]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by origin>)

Dimensions: Leaf: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Romanesque [300020768] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, Medieval styles and periods, Medieval (European))

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis [901000936]
	.....((Literary works: History, Biographies, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Anselm of Canterbury (Burgundian archbishop, saint, died 1109) [500354877]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	hagiography (literary genre) [300201063]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>, biographies (literary genre)) (AAT)

	theology [300054313]
	.....(Activities Facet, Disciplines (hierarchy name), disciplines (concept), humanities, <religion and related disciplines>, religion-related disciplines) (AAT)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed front pastedown, in pencil, "Bank (... ?) I B" over an erasure, and "Year 1200, item 245)". Inscribed fol. 1, in black ink with a partially legible prayer in a later (16th-century?) cursive hand, starting "Aue sanctissim(?) xpi..." Inscribed fol. 1v, in (faded) black ink, "42.E"; in a hand similar to the main text, in brown ink, "Liber s[an]c[t]i Martini tornacij. Serua[n]ti b[e]n[e]d[i]c[i]o Auferenti maled[i]c[ti]o Am[en]. Am[en]"; a similar inscription in a later hand next to an erasure of brown ink. Inscribed fols. 95v-96, in black ink, "Liber s[an]c[t]i // martini torn[acii]". Inscribed back pastedown, in pencil (a Kraus collation) "I-XII 8 = 96 leaves / coll - compl / HPK per JSK vi / 68", above an erasure.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
De Vita et Conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Life and Conversations of Anselm of Canterbury	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig XI 6	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1406/unknown-eadmer-of-canterbury-de-vita-et-conversatione-anselmi-cantuariensis-flemish-about-1140-1150/

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)