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• Résumé : CCCC MS 276 is a witness to the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in the first generations after the Norman Conquest. It contains two separate volumes which have been together since the twelfth century: the first was written in the late eleventh century and contains the Historia Romana, a version of Eutropius' Breuiarium ab urbe condita by Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99); the second was written circa 1100 and contains the De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Historia Normannorum) of Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 960-1026). Both were made at St Augustine's. The first volume contains the work of two co-operating scribes, one writing an angular Norman hand, the other the round exaggerated Anglo-Caroline typical of St Augustine's at this date. Mont-St-Michel influence has been detected in the initials. The manuscript was owned by a certain William Carye before Parker acquired it.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, grec

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Paul the Deacon - author

  Flavius Eutropius - author

  1r-52v - Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita) || Historia Romana ab urbe condita ad Justinianum imperatorem libri xvi

  Note : Decem priores libri sunt Eutropii cum additamentis Pauli diaconi, sex posteriores incerti autoris

  Note : f. 1r blank

  Note : f. 1v has title in four lines, purple initial, text in capitals, green and purple in alternate lines

  rubric : (1v) Incipit / liber / primus / Historiae / Romanorum

  incipit : (2r) Primus in italia ut quibusdam placet

  Note : (2r) (purple and green capitals)

  Note : (35v) Liber X ends

  explicit : (35v) ad maiorem scribendi diligentiam reseruamus

  rubric : (35v) Explicit liber decimus. hucusque historiam eutropius composuit cui tamen aliqua paulus diaconus addidit

  rubric : (35v) Incipit liber undecimus

  incipit : (36r) Anno ab urbe condita millesimo centesimo octauo decimoUalentinianus tricesimus octauus e pannonia

  Note : (51r) Liber XVI ends

  explicit : (51r) Quia uero restant adhuc que iustiniani augusti felicitate dicantur in sequenti deo presule libello promenda sunt

  rubric : (51r) Explicit liber XVI

  rubric : (51r) Imperatores Rome vel Constantinopoli regnantes

  incipit : (51r) Augustus regnauit annos quinquaginta vi

  explicit : (52v) IustinusConstantinopoli ... morbo periit

  Note : A later hand adds

  Note : (52v) Iustinianus nepos Justini ex sorore

  Note : Cf. MS 129. 1

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Pope Leo VIII - author

  53r-54v - Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII || Carta Leonis papae VIII. in qua confirmat Ottoni I. imperatori jus tam eligendi quam ordinandi pontificem Romanum et alios episcopos

  incipit : (53r) Conuenit apostolico moderamine pollentibus

  Note : (Jaffe 3704)

  explicit : (53v) eternam cum omnibus sanctis habere mereatur in saeculorum saecula. Amen

  Note : f. 54r-54v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Dudo of Saint-Quentin - author

  55r-134v - Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum || Dudonis historia Normannorum

  Note : De libraria sancti Augustini Cantuariensi

  rubric : (55r) Epistola panagirica atque apologitica ratione transcursa

  incipit : (55r) Inclito et pie venerando ... Adalberoni ... Dude ... Gloriosissimi nominis tui diuulgamen

  explicit : (57r) senatorem celestis aule

  rubric : (57r) Allocutio ad librum. monocolo monostropho ducursa

  Note : (57r) (In Greek letters, transliterated above)

  incipit : (57r) Themate pertenui quoniam digestus haberis

  rubric : (58r) Versus ad comitem rodulfum

  rubric : (58v) Item ad Rodbertum archiepiscopum

  rubric : (59v) Oratio

  Note : Text

  incipit : (59v) Totius nanque molis orbe descripto

  Note : The Greek words are written with some knowledge

  Note : Ends unfinished

  explicit : (134v) uulgus concrepabat pro uocibus ululantium

  Note : (Duchesne, p. 157D)

  Note : (135r) The flyleaves are blank

  Note : See Hardy I 616

  Note : Ed. Duchesne, 1619. Historiae Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui