Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 394

  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 394
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 394
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 394
    • CCCC MS 394
    • MS 394
    • Parker Library MS 394
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a fine large hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 79
  • Dimensions :
    • 166 x 225
  • Codicological details :
    • 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-79 + c-d
    • pharaon le rei
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-10(8) (wants 8).

Contents

Data Source: Jonas

  • Anonyme | Commentaire sur l'Apocalypse
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Seint Poul apostele dit qe toutz iceux qe voillent piement vivre
    Folio 1r - 79v

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 394, dating to c. 1300, is an illustrated Apocalypse, with the text and commentary in Anglo-Norman prose, which was made in England. It was bequeathed in 1439 to the College by Thomas Markaunt (c. 1382-1439), fellow, among 76 books. Only five of these books still remain in the College Library; the others must have been dispersed at some time in the sixteenth century. The illustrations are related to several other copies of the Anglo-Norman prose Apocalypse made in England in the late thirteenth and first half of the fourteenth century. This copy is by a relatively unskilled artist, whose coloured drawings are inferior to many of the other manuscripts of this group.


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    Langue(s) des textes : français


    1r-79v - Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman || Apocalypsis Gallice

    Note : The Apocalypse in French, with comment

    incipit : (1r) (Prologue) Seint pol le apostle dist ke tuz iceus ke uoillent piement uiuere en ihesu crist sufferunt persecucion

    explicit : (2r) ke a nul home ne list a dire

    incipit : (2r) E seint Johan en cest manere vist

    explicit : (2v) seueraument entendre e dit

    incipit : (2v) Io Iohan nostre frere e parcener en tribulacion

    incipit : (3r) Par seint Johan sunt signefie li bon prelat

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (79v) ke nus puissum oue lui en sa glorie en cors e en alme saunz fin regner. Amen

    Note : See L. Delisle and P. Meyer, L'Apocalypse au Français, Soc. des Anc. Textes Franç. pp. cclviii, cclxxi

    Note : (79v) Scribbled at the end (xv-xvi) : Sancte | G. G | Garoges Boke

    Note : The pictures in the text are very rough. Plain frames, green and yellow. Grounds, blue and pink, often parti-coloured

    Note : (1r) 1. Initial, Paul with sword. Peacock in lower margin

    Note : (2v) 2. John addresses crowd

    Note : (3r) 3. Vision of Christ among candlesticks

    Note : (4v) 4. John recumbent. Angel wakes him

    Note : (5r) 5. John at desk. Angel flies down behind him

    Note : (10r) 6. John climbs ladder to door in heaven. Angel in it

    Note : (10v) 7. Christ and Elders

    Note : (13r) 8. Lamb and Beasts. Elders hold crowns, two kneel

    Note : (14r) 9. Christ in C., John and Elders L., Angel R.

    Note : (15r) 10. Lamb full of eyes. Elders harping

    Note : (15r) 11. Lamb, Angels and Elders

    Note : (16v) 12-15. ff. 16v-19r. The four Horsemen

    Note : (19r) 16. White robes given to souls

    Note : (19v) 17. Sun and moon darkened. Men under mountains

    Note : (21r) 18. Four angels hold heads of beasts (winds)

    Note : (21r) 19. Angel holds long cross (Seal of God)

    Note : (22r) 20. God, the Lamb, Angels. White-robed men with palms

    Note : (22v) 21. John and Elders

    Note : (23r) 22. Censing angel. God. Seven angels with trumpets

    Note : (24v) 23. First Trumpet. Owl on tree

    Note : (25r) 24. Second Trumpet

    Note : (25v) 25. Third Trumpet

    Note : (26r) 26. Fourth Trumpet. Beast, crowned, ascends

    Note : (28r) 27. Sixth Trumpet. Angels in water (Euphrates) with cord about their necks held by an angel

    Note : (28v) 28. Horsemen

    Note : (29v) 29. Great Angel. Seven thunders (Beasts' heads). Owl on tree

    Note : (31r) 30. John takes book from Angel

    Note : (31r) 31. John holds long cross (reed). Worshippers in temple

    Note : (32r) 32. The witnesses, tonsured, in white, preaching

    Note : (33r) 33. Their ascension. The earthquake, etc.

    Note : (34v) 34. Christ and Elders. Seventh trumpet

    Note : (35r) 35. Woman in sky. John and angel watch

    Note : (36r) 36. Woman in bed, and child. Dragon

    Note : (37r) 37. Angels fight dragon and devils

    Note : (37v) 38. Dragon, etc. falling

    Note : (38r) 39. Dragon casts forth water. Winged woman

    Note : (39v) 40. Seven-headed beast in sea

    Note : (40r) 41. Dragon and worshippers

    Note : (41v) 42. Two-horned beast and worshippers

    Note : (43r) 43. Lamb on Sion

    Note : (44v) 44. Angel in air proclaiming. God, etc. on L. Men below

    Note : (45r) 45. Babylon falls

    Note : (46v) 46. Christ with sickle

    Note : (47v) 47. Vintage. Horses walk in blood

    Note : (48r) 48. White-robed harpers

    Note : (49v) 49. Angels with vials

    Note : (50v) 50. 1st and 2nd vials

    Note : (52v) 51. Frogs proceed from mouth of beast, etc.

    Note : (53v) 52. Seventh vial

    Note : (54v) 53. Vision of the Harlot

    Note : (56r) 54. Dragon goes into pit

    Note : (58v) 55. City falls. Saint leads men out

    Note : (62r) 56. Millstone cast into sea

    Note : (63r) 57. Christ and Elders

    Note : (64v) 58. Christ on horse. Saints follow

    Note : (66r) 59. Angel summons birds

    Note : (66r) 60. Beast, etc. cast into fire

    Note : (67r) 61. Dragon shut into pit

    Note : (67v) 62. Dead rise in white. Nimbed Saints seated on L.

    Note : (69v) 63. Christ as Judge. Dead on R.and L.

    Note : (70r) 64. John looks at the new Jerusalem

    Note : (70v) 65. John and the angel with vial. Jerusalem on R.

    Note : (73r) 66. John and angel. Lamb on R.

    Note : (76r) 67. God and Lamb. River flows out of altar on which He stands. Trees, and John and angel on R.

    Note : (78r) 68. John and angel with book

    Note : (78v) 69. John with long cross addresses seated group

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Given originally by T. Markaunt: it appears as no. 72 in the list of his gifts, Sources of Abp Parker's Collection, p. 81.
  • The treatment of pictures nos. 6 and 69 is characteristic of a considerable group of Apocalypses, perhaps East Anglian.

Bibliography

  • Bouly de Lesdain, Anne-Marie. “Les Manuscrits Didactiques Antérieurs Au XIVe Siècle: Essai d’inventaire.” Bulletin d’information de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire Des Textes 13 (65 1964): 57–79.
  • Dean, Ruth J, Maureen B. M. Boulton, and MAUREEN B M BOULTON. Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series 3. Londres: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.

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