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• Résumé : CCCC MS 334 contains Jerome's translation of Origen's homilies on Luke. It was written in the type of script known as "a-z minuscule", one of the many European pre-Caroline minuscules, probably at a nunnery in Laon in the eighth century. It shares scribes with other Laon books, and has a note saying that it was written by one 'Fortunatus'. It contains some fish and animal decoration very typical in manuscripts of its date from northern France. There is no record of how it came into Parker's hands, and no evidence that it was in England in the Middle Ages.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

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  Origen - author

  1r-111v - Origen, Homilies on Luke (transl. by Jerome)

  Note : Title in capitals, partly in outline. Initial of plaited work

  rubric : (1r) IN NOMINE SCETrinitatisincipiunt interpretationes in Lucam Euangelistam

  Note : (P. L. XXVI 219)

  Note : (1r) Text. Initial of beast on hind legs and beaked fish fighting

  incipit : (1r) Hieronimuspaulaeet eustochio. ante paucos dies quorundam in matheum et lucam commentarios uos legisse dixistis /

  explicit : (2r) scripturarum quondam studium fuerit

  rubric : (2r) Explicit prefacio

  rubric : (2r) Incipiunt Homelias · origenis in lucam · xxxuiiii uerseab · eusebio · hyronimo /

  incipit : (2r) Hyronimuspresbiternatus uico eusebio · et pater eius eusebius nomen · in exordium luce usquead eum locum ubi ait · scribere tibi optime theofile dicte homelie in diebus dominicis. I

  Note : P. L. XXVI 221; P. G. XIII 1801

  incipit : (2r) Sicut olim in populo iudeorum multi prophetiampollicebantur

  Note : Homily I ends imperfectly

  explicit : (4v) ut diligamini a deo. et uos theofili

  Note : Homily II begins imperfectly

  incipit : (5r) culata fuerit. Hoc enim ne suspicare[i] quidem de homine potest

  Note : Each Homily has heading in uncials, and initial in outline usually with animal forms, beaked fishes, etc. Homily 14 (f. 34r) has its title and initial touched with green. In Homily 18 (f. 49v) title and initial have some washing of red as well as green, and red dots about some of the letters. The small initials in the text about here are similarly coloured and dotted. This ornamentation affects all quire 7 (ff. 48r-55v)

  Note : On f. 97v written in pencil down the left side of the page in very irregular characters is this very interesting inscription. A few letters have gone through cropping: FOR/TJ/NA/TV/ ssc/·Ip/·it/·stu/·ibr/·m/·ra/·e/·ro/·llu i.e. Fortunatus scripsit istum librum orate pro illum (!)

  Note : Homily 39 ends

  explicit : (111r) offerre ei munera que nobis restituat. Et pro terrenis celestia largiatur in christo iesus. Cui est gloria et imperium in secula seculorum amen

  Note : (111r) A rude sketch of an animal below

  Note : 111v is blank