Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 134: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

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Summary: The commentary on the Apocalypse by Berengaudus in CCCC MS 134 was the most popular Apocalypse commentary in medieval England. Many copies of English provenance survive and excerpts from the text are used in most of the English illustrated Apocalypses. This book is from the Benedictine Abbey of Peterborough and can probably be identified in a list of books intended for reading in the refectory. On the basis of comparison of its script with other Peterborough manuscripts the dating of the book is c. 1125-1150. Berengaudus is a man of whom very little is known of his dates or where he was writing. The main controversy is whether he can be identified with Berengaudus of Ferrières who lived in the second half of the ninth century or another Berengaudus writing in the second half of the eleventh century.
Contents: Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

Alternative title	Berengaudus Super Apocalypsim
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 170 + 3
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	30 lines to a page
Height (mm)	315
Width (mm)	200
Collation	a(2) i(8)-xiii(8) (3 canc.) xiv(8)-xvi(8) (one canc.) xvii(8)-xxi(8) xxii(4) b(1).
Writing	in more than one very round and black hand
Foliation	ff. aa-bb + a-b + i-ii + 1-170 + iii + c-d
Provenance	The flyleaves (iv-iiv, iiir) are fragments of an account roll. On the first, land iuxta Burghbrygg is mentioned. On the second is the entry de manerio de Alwalton. On that at the end ad Rectoriam de Wermer. Alwalton suggests Peterborough: but Pentney (see below) is also possible.
2 fo.	at age penitentiam

M.R. James Date	xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fy324dy9554/MS_134.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zf041gs3952/134.pdf
Contains	Title Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis. 2r-170v Author Berengaudus Note (2r) At top, old title: Berengaldus super Apocalipsin Rubric (2r) Incipit liber Apocalipsin. id est Revelationis Note (red capitals) Incipit (2r) Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi etc. Note (2r) Fine initial in red outline: grounds purple and yellow (Text of Apoc. I - III) Rubric (4v) Incipit expositio prime visionis in Apocalipsin Incipit (4v) Beatum Johannem apostolum et evangelistam Note (P. L. XVII 765 (843)) (4v) Fine initial in red outline: yellow panelling: grotesque human figures The subsequent visions have plainer initials on red and green Ends Explicit (170r) participes esse mereamur. qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen Rubric (170r) Explicit expositio libri apocalipsis Incipit (170r) Quisquis nomen auctoris scire Explicit (170v) vel certe in melius commutandum Rubric (170v) Explicit liber
TJames	239
Stanley	P. 8
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cq531ww5470
Location	MS 134
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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