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Rievaulx Abbey: History
Rievaulx Abbey: Buildings  |
Were these manuscripts produced at Rievaulx?
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. |
