Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 144

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 144
    • CCCC MS 144
    • MS 144
    • Parker Library MS 144
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English, Old (ca.450-1100)
  • Author : Priscien (04..-05..)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a very fine hand
  • Decoration :
    • The ornamental initials which begin the divisions of the glossary are deserving of careful attention. They are in the Celtic manner, and often, but not always, surrounded with red dots. Their execution is very good indeed. Both they and many smaller initials are filled in with patches of yellow or dusky blue.There is one good outline initial on the leaves at the end.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 65 + 3
  • Dimensions :
    • 235 x 320
  • Codicological details :
    • 33 lines to a column, four columns on a page
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-67 + c-d
    • farao
    • I(8)-VII(8) VIII(8) (+1) a(10) (1 canc.) | b(2) | 1 flyleaf.

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Contents

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  • Résumé : The Corpus Glossary, CCCC MS 144, written in the early ninth century, is an early witness to the Old English language, and also attests to Latin learning in England at this time. It contains several glossaries; most of the glosses are in Latin, but there are over 2000 in Old English. It is written in a beautiful Anglo-Saxon Hybrid Minuscule, with some typically Insular decoration of initials. The manuscript also has two flyleaves at the end from an Irish manuscript of a treatise on grammar by Priscian (fl. c. 500) written in Gaelic National Hand, probably in the twelfth century.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    1r-3v - Interpretations of Hebrew and Greek Names || Interpretatio nominum Ebraicorum et Graecorum

    rubric : (1r) Interpretatio nominum ebraicorum et grecorum

    incipit : (1r) Adonai

    explicit : (3v) Zesabel


    4r-64v - Glossary in Latin and Old English, alphabetised by first two letters || Glosa secundum ordinem alphabeti

    Note : In hoc glossario plurimae voces Latinae, Saxonice explicantur. Haec antiquissima glossaria, quae quodam supellex fuerunt bibliothecae abbatiae Sancti Augustini juxta muros Cantuariae, excipit

    rubric : (4r) Incipit glosa secundum ordinem elimentorum Alphabeti

    incipit : (4r) Abminiculum

    explicit : (64v) Zitis


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    Priscian - author

    65r-66v - Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (excerpt from book 2) || Fragmentum Latinum, literis Hibernicis scriptum, ad rem grammaticam pertinens

    Note : Two leaves follow in double columns of 40 lines, in a fine hand of Irish aspect which is assigned by Hessels to cent. xii, but must, I think, be considerably earlier

    Note : The text is from Priscian liber II (Putsch 582 etc.) on patronymics and possessives

    Note : A blank flyleaf

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Provenance

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  • From St Augustine's, Canterbury. On f. 1*r is: Di(st) XI Gra 1 retro (possibly, as Hessels read, retus, for retrorsus, but I think the letter is a rough o). elucidacio quarundam parcium cum A. liber S. Aug. Cant. Not in the old catalogue: no. 1350 is Liber de obstrusis sermonibus parcium 2 fo. omnes D. (blank) G. (blank) but the 2nd folio does not correspond.

Notes

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  • Research: These are the contents of this volume, quite briefly indicated. The whole was edited by J. H. Hessels, M.A., in 1890 with the greatest care and completeness: a facsimile accompanies his edition. The text was first printed by T. Wright in his Vocabularies, then by Wulcker in 1884, and again by Professor Sweet, Oldest English Texts 1885.

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