Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 199: Ieuan ap Sulien's Augustine on the Trinity
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 199 is a copy of Augustine of Hippo, De trinitate, made c. 1090 at Llanbadarn Fawr by Ieuan ap Sulien (d. 1137). Ieuan was from a prominent literary family; his brother, Rhigyfarch (d. 1099), wrote a Life of St David and succeeded his father, Sulien (d. 1091), as bishop of St David's. Some of Ieuan's own verses in Latin and Welsh survive in the margins of this manuscript, but unfortunately part of the Welsh verse was lost in 1953 when the manuscript was rebound. The main text of this manuscript is written in a very attractive hand, with some beautiful decorated initials. The flyleaf contains a ninth-century fragment of Smaragdus (fl. 809-17) in a Carolingian minuscule, possibly from Rheims.
- Contents
- De trinitate
Description
| Alternative title | Augustinus de Trinitate |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 78 + 1 |
| Date created | [ca. 1000 - 1099] |
| Language | Latin; Welsh |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 36 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 275 |
| Width (mm) | 180 |
| Collation | 1 flyleaf, 1(8) 2(8) 3(10) | gap | 4(12) (2, 5 canc.) | gap | 5(8) (wants 1) 6(8)-9(8) (2 canc. wants 5) 10(6?) (wants 6). |
| Writing | in a beautiful round, somewhat flat-topped hand |
| Foliation | ff. a-b + i + 1-80 + c-d |
| Provenance | I have little doubt that Bishop Davies sent it to Parker Stanley in his Catalogue mentions two letters of the Bishop of St David's to Parker quae extant ad finem huius libri. They are not now to be found. from St David's |
| Research | John the scribe of this book painted the initial letters in the Psalter of Ricemarch now at Trinity College, Dublin (no. 50 in Abbott's Catalogue), which was written by Ithael, at some time between 1064 and 1082. He died in 1136. Ricemarch his brother was Bishop of St David's 1088-1096 succeeding his father Sulgen: there is a lament by Ricemarch in the Cotton MS Faustina C. 1. |
| Additions | The flyleaf at the beginning (f. ir-iv) is part of a leaf of a ixth(?) cent. MS. in double columns in Carolingian minuscule, containing Homilies (Easter and Pentecost): col. 2 is incomplete. On the verso is the beginning of a Homily on: Cum complerentur dies pentecostes ... pariter in eodem loco. B. Hoc est in caenaculo quod superius ascendisse narrantur. quicumque enim spiritu sancto adimpleri desiderant etc., At the top of f. 1r a small patch has been cut out and another carefully sewn in with a lace of skin. This happens fairly often in the book. On the patch, in a hand of cent. xiii-xiv, is: domine miserere mei sana animam meam quia peccaui tibi. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xi |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 169 |
| Stanley | N. 5 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sk095st1718 |
| Location | MS 199 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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