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Résumé : CCCC MS 304 is a very important early copy of Juvencus, Euangelia metrica, a metrical paraphrase of the gospels in Virgilian language composed in the fourth century by this aristocratic Spanish priest. It also contains the earliest known version of some verses by Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636). This manuscript was written in the first half of the eighth century in Uncial script. E. A. Lowe changed his mind about this manuscript between the two editions of the second volume of his Codices Latini Antiquiores: in the first he considered it to be Spanish, in the second Italian. It seems to have reached England by the tenth century, perhaps at Christ Church, Canterbury or Malmesbury, and may be identifiable with an item in the Christ Church library catalogue.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin
Intervenants :
Iuuencus - author
1r-115v - Iuuencus, Euangelia metrica
Note : (1r) Framed in a Saracenic arch. The arch is divided into 17 compartments in each of which is an oval gem with a roughly circular eye. The shafts are each divided into six compartments: each contains a rough pattern of leaves. Two sprays project from the top of each shaft. The lettering on this page (and those which follow) is in capitals, drawn in outline with the pen and having the thick strokes coloured with yellow or green
Note : On ff. 1v-3v the writing is enclosed in rectangular frames; these are decorated, some with continuous patterns, others with devices in compartments: green, red and yellow are used
Note : On f. 3v the frame takes the form of a Saracenic arch again
Note : On f. 4r and most of f. 4v the writing is still in outlined capitals, the strokes filled in with colour. The normal writing begins near the bottom of f. 4v
Note : The colophon of Liber I is curiously confused. I give a full transcript
Note : (36r) Sapientissimi uiri Iuuenci :xpiani : euangeliorum. (Red capitals)Liber primus: · explicit (Black capitals filled with yellow)Incipit liber secundus (Red) Caluetii: aquilini. (Black capitals filled with yellow)Inde philippus ait (Red, smaller)
Note : (36v) Cernes dubitare quiesce (Black) (II 110)Et proprios huc saepe greges ad pocula duxit (Red) (II 264)Progrediens uide na oculis tueri licebit. (Black) (II 109*) Ad hoc seruator talia dicta detulit. (Red) (Cf. II 425, etc.)
Note : Text of Liber II with red, yellow and green initial then begins.
Note : Nomina sacra. DS XPS SCS SPS DNS IHS.
Note : Neumes have been inserted in one or two places
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