Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 057: Abingdon Benedictine Collection with Martyrology
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 57 is a witness to the intellectual interests of the Benedictine Reform movement in tenth-century England. It contains a collection of Benedictine texts, including the Rule, and a version of Usuard's Martyrologium with Abingdon additions. It was written in Square minuscule at the end of the tenth century or the start of the eleventh either at Canterbury, since its texts are related to Canterbury manuscripts of similar material, or at Abingdon, where it has certain early provenance. The additions to the Martyrology provide a large number of obits of people connected with the monastery of Abingdon; unfortunately they have been badly damaged by a later binder's trimming. In the eleventh century some damage to the manuscript was repaired by a scribe writing an imitiation of the original Square minuscule script.
- Contents
- Regula Sancti Benedicti -- Admonition -- Memoriale qualiter, part 1 -- Memoriale qualiter, part 2 -- De festiuitatibus anni (= canon 36 of the Council of Mainz, 813) -- Collectio capitularis of (probably) 818 x 819 -- Martyrologium, with Abingdon additions -- Diadema monachorum (incomplete)
Description
| Alternative title | Regula S. Benedicti. Martyrologium Abbendoniense. Smaragdi Diadema Monachorum |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 162 |
| Date created | [ca. 900 CE - 1099] |
| Language | Latin; English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 27 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 323 |
| Width (mm) | 252 |
| Collation | 1(8) (8 supplied)-3(8) (3 and 6 supplied) 4(8) 5(10) (wants 9, 10) 6(8)-9(8) 10(2) 11(8)-13(8) (wants 5, 6) 14(8)-16(8) 17(10) 18(8)-21(8). |
| Writing | in a very beautiful flat-topped hand |
| Foliation | ff. i-ii + 1-163 + iii-iv |
| Provenance | From Abingdon, as will appear. |
| Research | See Napier, Old English Glosses, p. xxii. |
| Additions | f. 1r is covered with paper., On the verso (1v) a remark of Parker's date and an old title: Regula S. Benedicti et martilogium et diadema monachorum ac etiam quidam tractatus qui docet qualiter monachi in monasterio debent conuersari et est post regulam S. Benedicti. |
| Decoration | Initials in red: some green, usually quite plain. Many smaller initials in black are filled with yellow. Headings of sections etc. uniformly in fine plain red capitals. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | x-xi |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 16 |
| Stanley | B. 4 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xd738fw2393 |
| Location | MS 057 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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