Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 065: Patristic Homily Collection, compiled by Paul the Deacon
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 65, dating to the twelfth century, contains a collection of homilies by a variety of patristic authors such as Gregory the Great, Jerome, Bede, etc. Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99), a scholar at the court of Charlemagne, compiled such a collection, ordered by appropriate date of the Church year, which travelled widely in the Middle Ages as a useful resource for preachers. This manuscript contains a version of the summer half of Paul the Deacon's collection, and was presumably once accompanied by a winter volume, now lost. The manuscript contains flyleaves with musical notation at the end, a rare survival of English fourteenth-century polyphony, including a four-part Alleluia.
- Contents
- Homiliary -- Homilies
Description
Alternative title | Homiliarium |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 134 + 2 |
Date created | [ca. 1100 - 1199] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 37 lines |
Height (mm) | 312 |
Width (mm) | 217 |
Collation | I(8)-XVI(8), XVII(6), a(2) . |
Writing | in a fine regular black hand |
Foliation | ff. i-ii + 1-135 + iii-iv |
Additions | The two flyleaves at the end (ff. 135r-136v) are ff. xcii and c of a service-book with music on five-line stave (cent. xv) containing music for the Office of the Nativity of the Virgin., On f. 12v, scribbled: Thomas Abott Sodway. On f. 57r: Thomas ... Wond. |
Decoration | There are various rather rough pencil sketches on the margins, of men, animals and ornaments, e.g. f. 37r. |
Writing | Two scribes at least are discernible. |
2 fo. | cessit in prima |
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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |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 | 238 |
Stanley | P. 9 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wp309nt7987 |
Location | MS 065 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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