Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 197B

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 197B
    • CCCC MS 197B
    • MS 197B
    • Parker Library MS 197B
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 36
  • Dimensions :
    • 219 x 285
  • Codicological details :
    • ff. i-ii + pp. 245-316 + ff. iii-iv.
    • 1 (two separate leaves) 2 (a pair of leaves: leaves lost between them) 3 (a pair of leaves: interior sheets gone) 4 (4) || 5 (10?) (wants 5, 6) (gap) 6 (8?) (wants 1, 8: or 10 wanting 1, 2, 9, 10) 7 (six leaves: as last) 8 (a pair of leaves, consecutive) 9 (a pair of leaves not consecutive) 10 (a pair of leaves not consecutive).

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Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : This manuscript constitutes the surviving portion of the 'Cotton-Corpus' Gospels; the larger part, now London, BL MS Cotton Otho C. V, was badly damaged in the Cottonian fire of 1731 and only burnt fragments remain. A bifolium of canon tables, probably also from this manuscript, survives as London, BL MS Royal 7. C. XII, ff. 2-3. The original manuscript was a lavish Insular Gospel Book with elaborate decoration; in the Corpus part the eagle symbol of St John the evangelist still survives, and elaborate decorative initials incorporating a range of interlace and other ornament. It belongs in a group with the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Both Parker and Cotton recorded on their respective parts of the original book that it was believed to have been owned by St Augustine, first archbishop of Canterbury, who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England in 597. The date of the manuscript rules this out: it seems to be from late seventh- or early eighth-century Northumbria. However it is possible that this tradition arose in the Middle Ages, as one of the volumes which Thomas Elmham (d. c. 1427) recorded among those revered as sent from Gregory to Augustine was probably an early Insular Gospel-book of this type. The same provenance was attributed anachronistically to other early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at St Augustine's, Canterbury.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    245-316 - The Northumbrian Gospels

    Note : On p. 245 at top (xvi): 'fragmentum quatuor euangeliorum. Hic liber olim missus a gregorio pp. ad augustinum archiepȝ: sed nuper sic mutilatus'

    decoration : 245: A full page drawing. 'Imago aquilae'. Facsimile in Goodwin (pl. ix)

    Note : p. 246 blank

    decoration : 247: Frontispiece to John in finest Celtic style. Facsimile in Goodwin (pl. x)

    layout : Text 19 lines to a page. The edges are cropped

    handNote : The fragments of John and Luke are in two different hands, the latter being smaller: both are magnificently written. Ammonian sections and Eusebian canons in the margin in a small and very Celtic hand

    Note : 248: Text of John i. 1 Et uerbum erat - 12 reciperunt

    research : Goodwin (pl. xi)

    Note : 249: John i. 45 Erat autem - ii. 10 usque

    Note : 251: John iii. 19 dicium - 36 aeternam

    Note : 253: John v. 33 ad iohannem - vi. 4 festus

    Note : 253: John vi. 68 - vii. 16 misit me

    Note : 257: John viii. 52 habes abraham - x. 29 omnibus est et

    Note : 265: Lucas iv. 6 in momento - v. 31 ad illos non

    Note : 273: Lucas vi. 27 uestros benefacite - vii. 44 non dedisti

    Note : 281: Lucas viii. 25 quia et uentis - x. 4 neque peram

    Note : 293: Lucas xi. 27 de turba dixit - xiii. 11 erat inclinata

    Note : 305: Lucas xv. 22 et calciamenta - xvi. 24 digiti sui

    Note : 309: Lucas xix. 28 Et hiis dictis - 45 eicere uenden

    Note : 311: Lucas xx. 33 si quidem .uii - xxi. 6 non destruatur

    Note : 313: Lucas xxii. 25 dominantur - 42 calicem istum a me

    Note : 315: Lucas xxiii. 8 herodis autem - 26 uenientem de uilla

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: Edited by James Goodwin, Cambridge Antiquarian Society (text of John only) 4to, 1847: facsimiles there, and in Westwood, Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS. In Gregory's Prolegomena, p. 995, it is no. 20: the number is given wrongly as 297. It is no. 24 in Westcott's list in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, art. Vulgate.
  • Research: The view has often been expressed that the Cotton MS. Otho C. V (of which only burnt fragments remain) once formed a portion of this manuscript. Tanner supposed it to be, the Red Book of Eye (see my Sources, p. 6).

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