Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 29

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 029
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 29
    • CCCC MS 29
    • Parker Library MS 29
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Pierre de Poitiers (1130?-1205) | Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1200 - 1225
  • Script :
    • in two main hands, both very good
  • Decoration :
    • On iiv a drawing of the seven-branched candlestick with allegorical explanation, and diagram of 'transitus filiorum israel per mare rubrum'.
    • On viiiv a drawing of a seraph, with the allegorical significance of the six wings and feathers.
    • There are some very handsome decorative initials containing grotesque figures, e.g. Genesis f. 1v; Exodus (a centaur) f. 19r; Numbers (retaining its cloth guard) f. 34v; Joshua, curious figure f. 44r.
  • Support Material : paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. 158 + 11
  • Dimensions :
    • 250 x 348
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 49 lines
    • ff. a-b + i-xi + 1-157 + xii + c-d
    • considerans
    • uocat
    • 3 flyleaves, a(2?) b(6), 1(8)-20(8) (wants 7-8). One page at each end covered with paper.

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 29 is an early thirteenth-century manuscript containing Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum(Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi) (also in CCCC MSS 83 and 437), and Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187), Historia scholastica. The manuscript contains a number of illustrations, including a seven-branched candlestick and a seraph, with accompanying allegorical interpretations. It also features decorative initials containing grotesques.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Peter of Poitiers - author

    vir-xir - Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum


    Intervenants :

    Petrus Comestor - author

    1r-xiiv - Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica

    rubric : (1r) Petri ComestorisHistoria Scholastica

    rubric : (1r) Incipit prologus epistolaris

    incipit : (1r) Reuerendo patri et domino suo Willelmo

    explicit : (1r) per omnia benedictus deus. Amen

    Note : Capitula

    rubric : (1r) Incipit prefatio

    incipit : (1v) Imperatorie maiestatis

    Note : (P. L. CXCVIII 1053)

    explicit : (1v) princeps est et principium

    rubric : (1v) Incipit hystoria scolastica de creatione

    incipit : (1v) In principio erat uerbum

    Note : (66r) Hand changes

    explicit : (157v) in catacumbis

    Note : (157v) Epitaph of P. Comestor in a later hand

    Note : (xiir) blank

    Note : (xiiv) Verso covered with paper

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Notes

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  • Additions: Three flyleaves at the beginning are from a xiiith cent. MS. of decretals in small hand. Then a blank leaf (i).
  • Additions: f. iir a has xvith cent. note and title.
  • Additions: ff. iiir-viiir have the compendium of sacred history up to the time of Christ which is often found written on rolls and attributed to Petrus Pictavensis: Considerans hystorie sacre prolixitatem with genealogical tables.

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