Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 072: Gospel Lectionary

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Summary: Although arranged according to the texts of the four Gospels, rather than arranging the specific readings according to the Sundays and feast days of the year, CCCC MS 72, was intended to serve as a Gospel Lectionary for the readings at Mass. It begins with a table of the Gospel readings for the church year, and in the margins are the names of the days on which the appropriate passages of text are to be read. The Gospel text has been compared with Bibles produced at Canterbury and Glunz classifies it as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. Although M. R. James thought that it might have been made at St Albans, it is now thought more likely that it was made at Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury. It has three very large and fine illuminated ornamental initials, and many smaller ones. A dating of the book to the closing years of the twelfth century, perhaps c. 1180, seems likely.
Contents: Gospel Lectionary

Alternative title	Evangelia
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 147
Date created	[ca. 1175 - 1225]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	30 lines to a page
Height (mm)	291
Width (mm)	207
Collation	1(12) (misbound but complete) 2(8) (wants 1) 3(8)-6(8) (one canc.) 7(8)-10(8) (1 canc.) 11(8)-15(8) (5 canc.) 16(8)-18(8) 19 (three).
Writing	in a splendid black hand, which suggests St Albans to me
Foliation	ff. a-b + 1-147 + c-d
Provenance	The book is of English work, and, as I said, more like St Albans to my mind than Canterbury. But the addition of St Augustine's feast - the only one, I think, to be found, - does suggest that Canterbury was its home.
2 fo.	Abraham, Feria

M.R. James Date	xii late or xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz811vw9762/MS_72.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jr078pg2006/72.pdf
Contains	Title Gospel Lectionary. 1r-147r James Evangelia. 1r-147r Note (1r) A Table of Gospels for the year. The use seems to be Roman (13r) The Four Gospels. The first leaf of Matthew is gone The margins are broad, and in them (besides the Ammonian sections in black) are the names of the feasts on which Gospels are to be read, in red and blue. Each section has a beautiful initial (without gold) blue or red, filled with very charming ornament in red, blue, yellow or green Prologue to Mark Incipit (48r) (Marcus euangelista dei) et petri Note f. 49r-49v blank (50r) Text of Mark with magnificent initial: conventional foliage on gold, edged with green Prologue to Luke Incipit (73v) (Lucas Syrus) Note 74v blank (75r) Text of Luke with magnificent initial (containing a dragon) On f. 92r in red and blue capitals, only slightly later than the other rubrics, In die Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli On margins of 92v, 93r are pencil sketches of initials and ornaments (116r) Prologue to John (117r) Text with admirable initial (147r) Ends
TJames	298
Stanley	V. 5
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hp146pz7537
Location	MS 072
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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