Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 054: Odo of Canterbury OSB, Commentary on Genesis-Numbers

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Summary: CCCC MS 54 is a late twelfth-century copy of Odo of Canterbury OSB (d. c. 1200), Commentary on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers. The manuscript belonged to, and perhaps was made at, the Savigniac and Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Coggeshall (Essex). The author, originally a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, became Abbot of Battle in 1175.
Contents: Commentary on Genesis-Numbers

Alternative title	Odo super IV Libros Moysi
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 170 + 1
Date created	[ca. 1175 - 1199]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 38, 37, 47 lines
Height (mm)	341
Width (mm)	225
Collation	1 flyleaf, 1(12)-4(12) 5(10) 6(10) 7(8)-19(8) (wants 7, 8).
Writing	in two or three hands: clear, but not specially good
Foliation	ff. i-iii + 1-170 + iv-v
Provenance	From Coggeshall. Leland (Collectanea IV 162) saw the book at Coggeshall. On the flyleaf: Liber sancte Marie Coggeshal Odo super quatuor libros Moysi. A late note on Odo follows., The book was very probably written at Coggeshall. The imperfections suggest a provincial origin.

M.R. James Date	xii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dc916jv2009/MS_54.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kh040vb2245/54.pdf
Contains	Title Odo of Canterbury OSB, Commentary on Genesis-Numbers. 1r-170v James Odosuper IV Libros Moysi. 1r-170v Author Odo of Canterbury OSB Rubric (1r) Incipit Odo super iiiior libros moysi Incipit (1r) Operis subditi materia lex est Explicit (2r) subtilius potuerit perscrutari Rubric (2r) Incipit liber genesis (2r) In principio ... terram Incipit (2r) Primus nobis occurrit liber geneseos Note (67v) Exodus. Initial on green ground (123r) Leviticus. Curious initial: green ground (152v) Numbers. Curious initial: green ground Ends Explicit (170v) que sunt super Iordanen e regione Iericho Rubric (170v) Explicit feliciter
TJames	149
Stanley	M. 11
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nm455rd6672
Location	MS 054
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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