Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 23

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 23 consists of two volumes bound together. The first is a famous illustrated manuscript of works by Prudentius (fl. 384-410), most significantly his Psychomachia, a poem about spiritual warfare between personifications of the vices and virtues. Many line drawings in coloured ink illustrate events in the text. It was made in England probably in the late tenth century, and it shares an artist with Bodleian Library MS Junius 11, the Junius manuscript of Old English poetry. Art-historical evidence has tended to link the production of part one of CCCC MS 23 with Canterbury, but a presentation inscription gives the manuscript provenance at Malmesbury, and it has also been suggested that it could have been made there. In the eleventh century Old English captions were added to the pictures. The second volume is a copy of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos of 417-18, written by six scribes working at Dover in the second quarter of the twelfth century. One of these scribes is also found in CCCC MS 462. The two manuscripts were probably bound together by Parker.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Prudentius - author

    1v-40v - Prudentius, Psychomachia

    Note : Psychomachia Prudentii (without title)

    Note : On f. 1v a frame meant to contain two drawings: only the lower one has been executed; in the upper space are marks of erasure

    Note : (2r) Fine initial in black and red with dragon's heads and interlaced work

    Note : (2r) First line in large green capitals and small red ones

    incipit : (2r) Senex fidelis prima credendi uia [est]

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (40v) Aeternum solio diues sapientia regnet


    41r-60r - Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmen 10

    rubric : (41r) Incipit Prudentii Clementis cucyM (or αα) de sco Romano martire is DE Roman2 contra gentiles

    incipit : (41r) Romane Christi fortis adsertor dei

    Note : (41r) Title and first line in red capitals. The hand is different, rounder and better. It changes perhaps at f. 57r

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (60r) induatur uellere

    rubric : (60r) Finit Romanus Aurelii Prudentii clementis, viri consularis


    60r-104r - Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmina 1-9, 11-14

    rubric : (60r) Incipit liber per iste fan on (Peristephanon): Hymnus in honore sanctorum martiru(m) Emetrii et cheledonii cala gurritanorum

    Note : (60r) (red capitals)

    incipit : (60r) Scripta sunt celo duorum martirum uocabula

    Note : (62r) Passio Laurentii

    Note : (65r) The first hand resumes

    Note : (71v) Passio Eulaliae

    Note : (75v) Decem et octo martirum Cesaraugustanorum

    Note : (78v) Passio Vincentii

    Note : (88v) HymnusFructuosi

    Note : (91r) HymnusQuirini

    Note : (92v) De loco in quo martires passi sunt nunc babtistserium est callagurri

    Note : (93r) Passio Cassiani

    Note : (95r) PassioHippolyti

    Note : (99r) PassioPetri et Pauli

    Note : (100r) PassioCypriani

    Note : (102r) Passio Agnaetis

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (104r) Dignaris almo uel pede tangere


    Intervenants :

    Constantia - author

    104r-104r - Constantia, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes

    rubric : (104r) Ver(s)us Cons(t)antine Constantini filiae scripti in absida Basilicae quam condidit in honore sanctae Agnes

    incipit : (104r) Constantina deum uenerans


    Intervenants :

    Damasus - author

    104r-104r - Damasus, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes

    rubric : (104r) Versus Damasi episcopi de eadem re (Ihm. 84)

    incipit : (104r) Fama refert sanctos


    104v-104v - Prudentius, Contra Symmachum (incomplete)

    rubric : (104v) Incipit liber primus contra simmachum

    incipit : (104v) Paulus praeco dei qui fera gentium

    Note : Ends imperfectly l. 29

    explicit : (104v) uulnere mordicus

    Note : Paper has been pasted over this page (now lifted)


    Intervenants :

    Orosius - author

    105r-159v - Orosius, Historia aduersus paganos

    rubric : (105r) Incipit Prefatio in Orosium

    incipit : (105r) Orosius presbiter Hispanus genere

    explicit : (105r) honorio imperium tenente

    rubric : (105r) Item Prefatiuncula in Orosium

    incipit : (105r) Orosius presbiter terraconensis

    explicit : (105r) stephani detulit ad occidentals plagas reliquias

    rubric : (105r) Incipit liber Sancti Orosii de Ormesta Mundi

    Note : (105r) (red and green capitals)

    incipit : (105r) Preceptis tuis parui

    Note : (105r) The initial P has a panelled stalk. The other initials are mostly in plain colours

    Note : The hand strongly resembles that of Christ Church, Canterbury

    Note : (111v) Liber II

    Note : (117r) Liber III

    Note : (120v) Liber IV

    Note : (121r) Hand changes to a smaller one

    Note : (128r) First hand resumes

    Note : (130r) Liber V

    Note : (136r) Another hand

    Note : (137v) Liber VI

    Note : (144r) First hand (?)

    Note : (146r) Liber VII

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (159v) iudicata si deleas

    rubric : (159v) Finit Orosii liber septimus

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  • On f. iiv in square black capitals: Hunc quicumque librum Aedhelmo depresseris almoI suspect the scribe ought to have written Aldhelmo dempseris. Damnatus semper maneas cum sorte malorum Sit pietate dei sine qui vel portet ab isto Coenobio librum AedhelmiAltered I think from Aldhelmi. hunc vel vendere temptet Qui legis inscriptos versus rogitare memento Christum ac in requie semper die vivat Aðelƿerd Qui dedit hunc thomum AedhelmoRe-written on erasure. pro quo sibi Christus Munera larga ferat largitor crimina laxans. This fixes the provenance to Malmesbury Abbey with which Aldhelm was specially connected. There were two abbots Athelwerd, one about 982, the other 1040-1050. The latter is probably the giver of the book.

Notes

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  • Ms de la Psychomachie de Prudence en latin, avec quelques gloses anglo-normandes

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  • Additions: There are marginal and interlinear glosses to the Psychomachia and, in less number, to the other poems. Some of these are later than the text (but still of cent. xi) but most are contemporary.
  • Additions: The pictures have descriptive titles in red capitals, and the first 47 of them have titles in Anglo-Saxon added at the end of cent. xi. Professor Zupitza has published these and one or two other fragmentary A.-S. inscriptions (on ff. 24v, 29r, 33v) in Zeitsch. f. Deutsch. Altert. 1876, pp. 36-45.
  • Additions: f. ir-iv is blank but for a note: Idem etiam manu exaratus reperitur in bibliotheca Cottoniana [Cleopatra C. VIII is meant] B. B. ... (name obliterated). On f. iir in a frame, in red and black capitals: Gennadii Presbyteri. Testimonium de historia inlustrium uirorum clviii. Prudentius vir secularis - agnoscitur palatinus miles fuisse. A good many corrections have been inserted in small red capitals. In lower margin a xvith cent. copy of Gennadius' note.
  • Additions: On f. 1r, a piece of vellum is pasted: on it is a distich (xii): Tres tria dant celo lapis ignis et unda fuerunt. S. lapis undaque C. beat L. focus, his duce christo. (S = Stephanus, L = Laurentius, C = Clement.) Also a xvith cent. copy of the four last lines of the dedicatory inscription. Also an erased inscription which I cannot decipher, and a pencil sketch of half-length figure in helmet and cloak.
  • Research: Reproductions in Westwood, Miniatures and Ornaments 108, Camb. Ant. Soc. Comm., vol. VII, Strutt, Horda Angel-cynnan etc.
  • Additions: Initials of lines are in red throughout.The Psychomachia is illustrated with a famous series of 89 drawings made by an English artist after originals which go back to the fifth century. Illustrated copies of the Psychomachia are numerous. An exhaustive study of them has been made by Richard Stettiner Die illustrierten Prudentiushandschriften, Berlin, Preuss 1895. The manuscript before us is described at pp. 17-22 and the illustrations in the third part of the work pp. 218-400.

Bibliography

  • Hunt, Tony. Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England. Woodbridge, 1991.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.
  • Woledge, Brian, and Ian Short. “Liste Provisoire de Manuscrits Du 12e s Contenant Des Textes En Langue Française.” Romania 102 (1981): 1–17.

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