Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 011: Hrabanus Maurus, De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 11 is a twelfth-century copy of Hrabanus Maurus's ninth-century encyclopaedic text De rerum naturis, also known as De uniuerso. Neil Ker rejected M. R. James's suggestion that the manuscript was a product of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and more recent work by Schipper has stated that the manuscript is of uncertain provenance, but certainly English. The manuscript has been studied very little, considered as a late copy of the text and thus of lesser interest; however, it is perhaps a useful witness to a renewed interest in Carolingian scholarship in twelfth-century England.
- Contents
- De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis
Description
Alternative title | Rabanus de Naturis Rerum |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 223 |
Date created | [ca. 1100 - 1199] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 39 lines |
Height (mm) | 410 |
Width (mm) | 295 |
Collation | 1(8)-28(8) (wants 8). |
Writing | in a fine clear hand |
Foliation | ff. i-ii + 1-223 + iii-iv |
Provenance | I cannot detect any mark of monastic provenance; but the elaborate initial to the text finds many parallels in Christ Church, Canterbury books. The hand is not characteristic of that house. |
Decoration | The decoration is confined to initials. The prologue (f. 1r) has one in gold on blue ground, and filled with colour, the 2nd prologue (f. 2r) one in colour. The text (f. 2v), a very handsome panelled gold one on pink ground edged with green, containing conventional foliage in colour and two small lions. Each chapter has a good one in colour, and each book a somewhat more elaborate one. |
2 fo. | ad omnes electos |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xii |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 242 |
Stanley | P. 12 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qk423pn9162 |
Location | MS 011 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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