Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 334: Origen, Homilies on Luke (transl. by Jerome)

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Summary: CCCC MS 334 contains Jerome's translation of Origen's homilies on Luke. It was written in the type of script known as "a-z minuscule", one of the many European pre-Caroline minuscules, probably at a nunnery in Laon in the eighth century. It shares scribes with other Laon books, and has a note saying that it was written by one 'Fortunatus'. It contains some fish and animal decoration very typical in manuscripts of its date from northern France. There is no record of how it came into Parker's hands, and no evidence that it was in England in the Middle Ages.
Contents: Homilies on Luke (transl. by Jerome)

Description

Alternative title	Origenes super Lucam
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 1 + 111
Date created	[ca. 700 CE - 899 CE]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	22 lines to a page
Height (mm)	230
Width (mm)	122
Collation	1 flyleaf, 1(8) (wants 5) 2(8)-14(8).
Writing	in a Lombardic minuscule.Cf. Pal. Soc. Series I, pls. 8, 9
Foliation	ff. i-ii + A + 1-111 + iii-iv
Provenance	Very probably this book came from the same place as MS 193 (? Corbie). A note in the college's copy of Nasmith's Catalogue gives Dr Traube's opinion that it is French, probably Northern.
Research	Professor W. M. Lindsay suggests a comparison with the script of MS. Laon 423 and of Paris B. N. lat. 12168.
2 fo.	et ante nesciret

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	viii-ix
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zw228vb4594/MS_334.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rk696hn9399/334.pdf
Contains	Title Origen, Homilies on Luke (transl. by Jerome). 1r-111v Author Origen Note Title in capitals, partly in outline. Initial of plaited work Rubric (1r) IN NOMINE SCETrinitatisincipiunt interpretationes in Lucam Euangelistam Note (P. L. XXVI 219) (1r) Text. Initial of beast on hind legs and beaked fish fighting Incipit (1r) Hieronimuspaulaeet eustochio. ante paucos dies quorundam in matheum et lucam commentarios uos legisse dixistis / Explicit (2r) scripturarum quondam studium fuerit Rubric (2r) Explicit prefacio (2r) Incipiunt Homelias · origenis in lucam · xxxuiiii uerseab · eusebio · hyronimo / Incipit (2r) Hyronimuspresbiternatus uico eusebio · et pater eius eusebius nomen · in exordium luce usquead eum locum ubi ait · scribere tibi optime theofile dicte homelie in diebus dominicis. I Note P. L. XXVI 221; P. G. XIII 1801 Incipit (2r) Sicut olim in populo iudeorum multi prophetiampollicebantur Note Homily I ends imperfectly Explicit (4v) ut diligamini a deo. et uos theofili Note Homily II begins imperfectly Incipit (5r) culata fuerit. Hoc enim ne suspicare[i] quidem de homine potest Note Each Homily has heading in uncials, and initial in outline usually with animal forms, beaked fishes, etc. Homily 14 (f. 34r) has its title and initial touched with green. In Homily 18 (f. 49v) title and initial have some washing of red as well as green, and red dots about some of the letters. The small initials in the text about here are similarly coloured and dotted. This ornamentation affects all quire 7 (ff. 48r-55v) On f. 97v written in pencil down the left side of the page in very irregular characters is this very interesting inscription. A few letters have gone through cropping: FOR/TJ/NA/TV/ ssc/·Ip/·it/·stu/·ibr/·m/·ra/·e/·ro/·llu i.e. Fortunatus scripsit istum librum orate pro illum (!) Homily 39 ends Explicit (111r) offerre ei munera que nobis restituat. Et pro terrenis celestia largiatur in christo iesus. Cui est gloria et imperium in secula seculorum amen Note (111r) A rude sketch of an animal below 111v is blank
TJames	113
Stanley	K. 8
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ss642cs4199
Location	MS 334
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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