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Were these manuscripts produced at Rievaulx?
The Chrysologus and Orosius manuscripts
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The decoration of Rievaulx’s surviving
manuscripts suggests that most of these, such as the Orosius manuscript
(above, right) were
produced at the abbey’s scriptorium. However, there are three
likely exceptions: the Ennodius manuscript (BL MS Royal 8 EIV),
the Chrysologus manuscript (above, left), and
the Job manuscript.
It has been suggested that these three manuscripts
may well have been produced at Durham and brought to Rievaulx in
1145 by Maurice,
a former monk of Durham who later presided as abbot of Rievaulx.
To
read more about these manuscripts, see, A. Lawrence, ‘English
Cistercian manuscripts of the twelfth century’ in Cistercian
Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. C. Norton and
D. Park (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 284-298.
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