Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 193

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 193
    • CCCC MS 193
    • MS 193
    • Parker Library MS 193
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Ambroise (saint, 0340?-0397)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a large script
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 170 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 190 x 285
  • Codicological details :
    • 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-170 + ii + c-d
    • fore praesumit
    • 1 flyleaf, i(8) (wants 1) ii(8)-vi(8) (1 replaced in cent. ix) vii(8)-x(8) xi(4) xii(8)-xvii(8) (+ 6*) xviii(8)-xxi(8) xxii(6), 1 flyleaf.

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 193 was written at the end of the eighth century at a centre which wrote the Corbie "ab" type of pre-Caroline minuscule, perhaps Saint Médard, Soissons, where it seems to have early provenance. It contains one of the oldest surviving copies of Ambrose's Hexameron, a commentary on the six days of creation containing much interesting scientific knowledge. It is not clear when it came to England, but it may have arrived in the eleventh century. In 1903 James tentatively suggested it might be identifiable with an entry in Eastry's catalogue of the library of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but he later abandoned this identification.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


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    Ambrose - author

    1r-170v - Ambrose, Hexameron

    Note : Title in six lines of large capitals drawn in outline and washed with red, yellow, green:

    rubric : (1r) IN NOMINE DI / PATRISOMNI / PoTENTIS INCiPiunT / LIBRI EXAMERON / ID EST SEX DIERUM / SCI AMBROSI (I erased) EPIS /

    incipit : (1r) Tantum ne opinionis

    Note : (1r) First two lines in uncials now black, formerly red or silver

    Note : (1r) Initial formed of three fish

    Note : (25v) Dies II with title in capitals as before

    Note : (37v) Dies III

    Note : (40r) the supplied leaf of cent. ix

    incipit : (48r) Discedente aqua conueniebat

    Note : As beginning a new section

    Note : (73r) Dies IV

    Note : (92r) Dies V

    Note : (133r) Dies VI

    Note : Ends with colophon in red capitals

    rubric : (170v) EXP. DE. RERU. PRINCiPIIS DIES. UI. B.

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Provenance

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  • Is the book from a monastery or church of St Sebastian?
  • A manuscript note in the College Library copy of Nasmith's Catalogue records Dr Traube's opinion that this manuscript is of cent. viii-ix, and was written at Corbie. Professor W. M. Lindsay confirms this and adds that it is written in the Corbie ab-type of script.

Notes

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  • Research: The manuscript is the oldest complete copy of the Hexameron of Ambrose. It is thus described by C. Schenkl in the Vienna edition of Ambrose 1896, I xxxiv: Cantabrigiensis collegii Corporis Christi 193 (C) litteris Langobardicis scriptus, formae oblongae, foliorum 173 saeculi viii. in quaternione sexto folium primum exsectum atque in eius locum alterum manu saeculi viiii scriptum substitutum est. in singulis paginis uersus uiceni terni leguntur. Correctus est hic liber duabus manibus quarum prior (m 2) eiusdem fere cuius prima aetatis est, altera (m 3) ad saeculum viiii referenda.
  • Additions: Lines are ruled with a dry point on the recto: a vertical line down each side.
  • Additions: An erasure of some length at top of f. 1r. The inscription was in small capitals of cent. xi, and began LIBER SC ... AM ... S. It extends across the top of the page and is continued at the side, where are perhaps 2½ words S ... S / M ... STS / .... I fear it is irrecoverable.
  • Additions: On the margin of f. 148v are about 6 lines of writing running the length of the page: erased and indecipherable by me.
  • Additions: At top of f. 163r is scribbled (ix-x): Conspicitur sus. Conspicit ursus.
  • Additions: There are many scribbles on the final page (f. 170v), some with neumes, e.g.: iesu saluator seculi. Sanctus sebas(tianus). Secundum quod ipse dixit. Ego dormiui et somnum cepi etc.
  • Additions: On the flyleaf at the end (f. iir) are fragments of pencil sketches (xiii-xiv), a tumbler, a beast's head etc. in very good style.

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