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• Résumé : This manuscript contains a copy of the Liber officialis of Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850), written in Brittany, at the monastery of Landévennec, in the year 952. We can identify the year the manuscript was written on account of a scribal colophon, in fact the work of two scribes, on f. 97v, which contains detailed chronological information from a paschal table. The colophon also tells us that 'Amadeus, deacon and monk, ordered this little book to be written'. The manuscript includes many interlinear glosses, some of them in Breton, which were published by Whitley Stokes. At some point before the thirteenth century the manuscript arrived in England, where it has a provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, langues celtiques, grec

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Amalarius of Metz - author

  1r-99r - Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis || Collectio Amalarii viri doctissimi de ordine Romanae ecclesiae qui vocatur liber officialis

  Note : (1r) Title in capitals

  rubric : (1r) Collectio amalarii uiri doctissimi de ordine Romane aeclesiae. qui vocatur liber officialis

  Note : (P. L. CV)

  Note : (1r) A small letter a (xiv ?) at upper R. corner

  Note : (1r) Capitula of two books

  rubric : (2v) Expliciunt capitula libri .ii

  rubric : (2v) Incipit collectio ... officialis

  Note : At top of f. 3r (xiv)

  Note : (3r) Amalarius de ordine ecc ...

  Note : (3r) (corner of leaf torn off)

  Note : The preliminary letter to Louis the Pious is absent

  incipit : (3r) Postquam scripsi libellum qui a mea paruitate uocatur de eclesiastico officio

  Note : (Praefatio altera, belonging to the revised form of the work, P. L. CV 987)

  Note : (3r) The hand is a rough and unskilled Carolingian minuscule

  Note : There are fairly numerous interlinear glosses, among which Mr Bradshaw (Collected Papers, p. 472) detected several in Breton. These were printed by Dr Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique, 1879-80, p. 338

  Note : Initials are rough, filled with patches of dull red and yellow

  Note : The first obvious change of hand is on f. 13v

  Note : A third hand, much larger and rounder, appears on ff. 37r-38v, thus

  Note : (37r) Liber I, Capitulum xxxviii. De observatione dierum etc.

  Note : ends

  explicit : (37r) et sunt omnes dies tamquam dominica

  Note : Then a heading not in the capitula

  rubric : (37r) Paulisper de ministratoribus persecutionis Christi quid actum sit uideamus

  incipit : (37r) Primus herodes sub quo passi sunt infantes

  Note : On the deaths of the Herods and Pilate and destruction of Jerusalem, mostly from Josephus

  explicit : (38v) et qui in sollempnitate pasche dominum crucifixerunt in eadem sollempnitate ab hostibus perirent

  rubric : (38v) Hieronimus in libro ebraicorum nominum

  incipit : (38v) Iscarioth memoriale domini

  explicit : (38v) et de uico eiusdem tribus ischarioth dominum uendidit

  Note : (39r) Liber II, i, de xii lectionibus

  Note : (39r) The second hand resumes, and, I think, continues to the end

  Note : At R. upper corner of 39r is xb (? for Christe benedic)

  Note : A curiously indented piece has been cut out of the bottom of 39r-39v

  Note : f. 47r-47v is mutilated

  Note : In the margins, throughout, a large L is frequently written

  Note : Cap. lxi or lxii De sexta feria ends

  explicit : (97r) quia in ea peracta est

  Note : (Liber IV capitulum xvi in P. L. CV)

  Note : (97r) ΦΙΝΙΘ DΗΩ ΓΡΛΘΙΛΣ ΛΜΗΝ

  Note : On f. 97v is the inscription given by Nasmith (corrected by me)

  Note : (97v) Anno a natiuitate dni nri ihu xpi dcccclii decima indictione epactis x(x)ii concurrens iiiitus cum bisexto; ciclo lunari xixo luna xiiiia pasche ID. aprilis. dies pasche. xiiiio kl. MAI; luna ipsius diei xviiiia; iussit amadeus diaconus atque habitu monachus hunc libellum scribere pro sua anima ad utilitatem fratrum: et quicunque legerit uel scrutatus fuerit aut scripserit eum precor ut dicat, anima eius requiescat in pace; Sed et quicunque eum rapuerit uel per uim siue per latrocinium abstulerit a fratribus sancti uuingualoei in cuius honore est scriptus anathema sit amaranatha in aduentu dni, omnibus fratribus haec atestantibus

  Note : (97v) The date is dccccLii but the L is nearly gone

  Note : After this is a single leaf (f. 99r) in double columns of 35 lines written apparently on one side only. The script is of much the same character as that of the volume, but smaller

  Note : At top in a large hand xii-xiii is

  rubric : (99r) Amalarius de ordine ecclesiastici officii

  Note : which seems characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury

  Note : The text begins

  incipit : (99r) In caena domini reseruetur de ipso corpore domini unde in crastinum

  Note : and ends (De sabbato sancto)

  explicit : (99r) Statim sequitur antiphona ad magnificat et oratio n. Et finita sunt ipsa die

  Note : A facsimile of f. 49r and of the colophon is given in the New Palaeographical Society's publication for 1907 (pl. 109)