Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 69

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 69
    • CCCC MS 69
    • MS 69
    • Parker Library MS 69
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • In a fine Hiberno-Saxon hand.
    • The hand varies in closeness but may very probably be the same throughout.
  • Decoration :
    • With initials of Celtic type.
    • The initials are of rather rough execution. A peculiar feature is that every page is bordered on R. and L. and between the columns with lines of red dots, in groups of three.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 83
  • Codicological details :
    • Double columns of 31 and 36 lines.
    • ff. i + 1-83 + ii
    • Reuocando

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 69, containing Gregory the Great's Forty Homilies on the Gospels, was written in Insular Hybrid minuscule and decorated in typical Insular fashion with red dots, interlace, and occasional animal heads. It was probably made in England south of the Humber, dating to the early part of the early ninth century, and is as such a relatively late product of the Insular book-producing tradition in England, which was to be greatly disrupted by Viking attacks of the middle of the ninth century. The text was used by Étaix in his edition of the work, although he denigrated it as containing terrible readings and fantastic spellings; but its place of origin and early date seemed to him too significant for the manuscript to be ignored.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, latin


    Intervenants :

    Gregory the Great - author

    ff. 1r - 83v - Homiliae XL in euangelia || Homilies on the Gospels

    Note : The Gospel Lections are given in full

    rubric : Omelia euangeliorum gregorii papae urbis romae numero uiginti. secundum marcum

    bibliographic : P. L. LXX [actually LXXVI]

    incipit : In illo tempore maria magdalene et maria iacobi et solomae

    explicit : uidebitis sicut dixit uobis

    decoNote : Initial I, in green, pink and yellow, with panels of interlaced work. The ground round it is thickly dotted with red. The letters "N ILLO" are filled in with pink and interlacing.

    rubric : Multis uobis lectionibus fratres karissimi

    Note : The Homilies are irregularly numbered: the last, imperfect, should be the xlth (on Dives and Lazarus).

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