Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 192: Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis

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Summary: This manuscript contains a copy of the Liber officialis of Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850), written in Brittany, at the monastery of Landévennec, in the year 952. We can identify the year the manuscript was written on account of a scribal colophon, in fact the work of two scribes, on f. 97v, which contains detailed chronological information from a paschal table. The colophon also tells us that 'Amadeus, deacon and monk, ordered this little book to be written'. The manuscript includes many interlinear glosses, some of them in Breton, which were published by Whitley Stokes. At some point before the thirteenth century the manuscript arrived in England, where it has a provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Contents: Liber officialis

Description

Alternative title	Amalarius
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 97 + 1
Date created	[ca. 952 CE]
Language	Latin; Celtic (Other); Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material	Vellum
Layout	26, 30, 31 lines to a page
Height (mm)	283
Width (mm)	195
Collation	i(12) (two cancels) ii(8) iii(12) (two cancels) iv(10) v(12) (two cancels) vi(10)-viii(10) ix(12) (two cancels) x(10) (wants 10): 1 flyleaf.
Writing	in two main hands at least
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-99 + c-d
Provenance	Written at Landevennech in Brittany and afterwards in the library of Christ Church, Canterbury (no. 74 (not 73) in Eastry's Catalogue, Ancient Libraries, p. 24).
2 fo.	quid sit, usque dum

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	x (952)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mq827zg1705/MS_192.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mn277sg2267/192.pdf
Contains	Title Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis. 1r-99r Nasmith Collectio Amalarii viri doctissimi de ordine Romanae ecclesiae qui vocatur liber officialis. 1r-99r Author Amalarius of Metz Note (1r) Title in capitals Rubric (1r) Collectio amalarii uiri doctissimi de ordine Romane aeclesiae. qui vocatur liber officialis Note (P. L. CV) (1r) A small letter a (xiv ?) at upper R. corner (1r) Capitula of two books Rubric (2v) Expliciunt capitula libri .ii (2v) Incipit collectio ... officialis Note At top of f. 3r (xiv) (3r) Amalarius de ordine ecc ... (3r) (corner of leaf torn off) The preliminary letter to Louis the Pious is absent Incipit (3r) Postquam scripsi libellum qui a mea paruitate uocatur de eclesiastico officio Note (Praefatio altera, belonging to the revised form of the work, P. L. CV 987) (3r) The hand is a rough and unskilled Carolingian minuscule There are fairly numerous interlinear glosses, among which Mr Bradshaw (Collected Papers, p. 472) detected several in Breton. These were printed by Dr Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique, 1879-80, p. 338 Initials are rough, filled with patches of dull red and yellow The first obvious change of hand is on f. 13v A third hand, much larger and rounder, appears on ff. 37r-38v, thus (37r) Liber I, Capitulum xxxviii. De observatione dierum etc. ends Explicit (37r) et sunt omnes dies tamquam dominica Note Then a heading not in the capitula Rubric (37r) Paulisper de ministratoribus persecutionis Christi quid actum sit uideamus Incipit (37r) Primus herodes sub quo passi sunt infantes Note On the deaths of the Herods and Pilate and destruction of Jerusalem, mostly from Josephus Explicit (38v) et qui in sollempnitate pasche dominum crucifixerunt in eadem sollempnitate ab hostibus perirent Rubric (38v) Hieronimus in libro ebraicorum nominum Incipit (38v) Iscarioth memoriale domini Explicit (38v) et de uico eiusdem tribus ischarioth dominum uendidit Note (39r) Liber II, i, de xii lectionibus (39r) The second hand resumes, and, I think, continues to the end At R. upper corner of 39r is xb (? for Christe benedic) A curiously indented piece has been cut out of the bottom of 39r-39v f. 47r-47v is mutilated In the margins, throughout, a large L is frequently written Cap. lxi or lxii De sexta feria ends Explicit (97r) quia in ea peracta est Note (Liber IV capitulum xvi in P. L. CV) (97r) ΦΙΝΙΘ DΗΩ ΓΡΛΘΙΛΣ ΛΜΗΝ On f. 97v is the inscription given by Nasmith (corrected by me) (97v) Anno a natiuitate dni nri ihu xpi dcccclii decima indictione epactis x(x)ii concurrens iiiitus cum bisexto; ciclo lunari xixo luna xiiiia pasche ID. aprilis. dies pasche. xiiiio kl. MAI; luna ipsius diei xviiiia; iussit amadeus diaconus atque habitu monachus hunc libellum scribere pro sua anima ad utilitatem fratrum: et quicunque legerit uel scrutatus fuerit aut scripserit eum precor ut dicat, anima eius requiescat in pace; Sed et quicunque eum rapuerit uel per uim siue per latrocinium abstulerit a fratribus sancti uuingualoei in cuius honore est scriptus anathema sit amaranatha in aduentu dni, omnibus fratribus haec atestantibus (97v) The date is dccccLii but the L is nearly gone After this is a single leaf (f. 99r) in double columns of 35 lines written apparently on one side only. The script is of much the same character as that of the volume, but smaller At top in a large hand xii-xiii is Rubric (99r) Amalarius de ordine ecclesiastici officii Note which seems characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury The text begins Incipit (99r) In caena domini reseruetur de ipso corpore domini unde in crastinum Note and ends (De sabbato sancto) Explicit (99r) Statim sequitur antiphona ad magnificat et oratio n. Et finita sunt ipsa die Note A facsimile of f. 49r and of the colophon is given in the New Palaeographical Society's publication for 1907 (pl. 109)
TJames	55
Stanley	E. 9
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ff646yg8822
Location	MS 192
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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