Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 72

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 072
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 72
    • CCCC MS 72
    • Parker Library MS 72
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1175 - 1225
  • Script :
    • in a splendid black hand, which suggests St Albans to me
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 147
  • Dimensions :
    • 207 x 291
  • Codicological details :
    • 30 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + 1-147 + c-d
    • Abraham
    • Feria
    • 1(12) (misbound but complete) 2(8) (wants 1) 3(8)-6(8) (one canc.) 7(8)-10(8) (1 canc.) 11(8)-15(8) (5 canc.) 16(8)-18(8) 19 (three).

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Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : Although arranged according to the texts of the four Gospels, rather than arranging the specific readings according to the Sundays and feast days of the year, CCCC MS 72, was intended to serve as a Gospel Lectionary for the readings at Mass. It begins with a table of the Gospel readings for the church year, and in the margins are the names of the days on which the appropriate passages of text are to be read. The Gospel text has been compared with Bibles produced at Canterbury and Glunz classifies it as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. Although M. R. James thought that it might have been made at St Albans, it is now thought more likely that it was made at Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury. It has three very large and fine illuminated ornamental initials, and many smaller ones. A dating of the book to the closing years of the twelfth century, perhaps c. 1180, seems likely.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    1r-147r - Gospel Lectionary || Evangelia

    Note : (1r) A Table of Gospels for the year. The use seems to be Roman

    Note : (13r) The Four Gospels. The first leaf of Matthew is gone

    Note : The margins are broad, and in them (besides the Ammonian sections in black) are the names of the feasts on which Gospels are to be read, in red and blue. Each section has a beautiful initial (without gold) blue or red, filled with very charming ornament in red, blue, yellow or green

    Note : Prologue to Mark

    incipit : (48r) (Marcus euangelista dei) et petri

    Note : f. 49r-49v blank

    Note : (50r) Text of Mark with magnificent initial: conventional foliage on gold, edged with green

    Note : Prologue to Luke

    incipit : (73v) (Lucas Syrus)

    Note : 74v blank

    Note : (75r) Text of Luke with magnificent initial (containing a dragon)

    Note : On f. 92r in red and blue capitals, only slightly later than the other rubrics, In die Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli

    Note : On margins of 92v, 93r are pencil sketches of initials and ornaments

    Note : (116r) Prologue to John

    Note : (117r) Text with admirable initial

    Note : (147r) Ends

Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • The book is of English work, and, as I said, more like St Albans to my mind than Canterbury. But the addition of St Augustine's feast - the only one, I think, to be found, - does suggest that Canterbury was its home.

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