Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 221: Orthographical Works by Alcuin, Bede and others

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 221 consists of two volumes bound together to make a collection of works on orthography by Alcuin, Bede, Cassiodorus, Flavius Caper, and Agroecius. The first part, containing the works by Alcuin and Bede, was probably written at a Breton centre on the Continent in the first half of the tenth century. It has a few marginal notes in Tironian shorthand. The second part, which is probably tenth-century, may be either Continental or English. Because Bishop thought that the first part shares a scribe with Cambridge, Gonville and Caius, MS 144/194, a manuscript with certain medieval provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury, this manuscript has been associated with St Augustine's as well. However, its complete lack of St Augustine's provenance marks does make that less likely. It was one of the manuscripts which came to Corpus from the collection of Daniel Rogers, who acquired books both in England and on his extensive travels abroad.
Contents: De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De uerbis dubiis -- De orthographia

Description

Alternative title	Alcuini Orthographia. Beda, Cassiodorius, Caper, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 24 + 40 + 1
Date created	[ca. 800 CE - 1099]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	two volumes
Height (mm)	245
Width (mm)	155
Collation	1(12) 2(12) \|\| I(8)-V(8), 1 flyleaf.
Writing	in a somewhat sloping Caroline minuscule
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-65 + iii-iv
Provenance	Probably given by Daniel Rogers.
2 fo.	exaltatio

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	ix-x and x-xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yn950mw1046/MS_221.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hw623bs9363/221.pdf
Contains	Title Alcuin, De orthographia. 1r-9r Nasmith Orthographia Albini magistri. 1r-9r Author Alcuin Rubric (1r) Incipit Ortographya Albini Magistri Me legat antiquas cupiat qui scire loquelas Me spernens loquitur mox sine lege patrum Incipit (1r) Aeternus aetas per ae dyptongon Note (Keil, Grammatici Latini. VII 295) Ends in the letter R Explicit (9r) hirtus, hirtuleus hirrus proprium Note (Keil, 309, l. 12) Rubric (9r) Finet ortographya Albini Magistri Title Bede the Venerable, De orthographia. 9r-24v Nasmith Liber de orthographia Bedae presbiteri. 9r-24v Author Bede the Venerable Rubric (9r) Incipit Liber de ortographia Bedae presbiteri Incipit (9r) A littera etiam nota praenominis Note (Keil, VII 261-294) (19v) Hand changes at f. 19v col. 2 Ends Explicit (24v) oratoris sermo pervenit Title Cassiodorus Senator, De orthographia. 25r-48v Nasmith Cassiodori senatoris liber de orthographia ex veteribus grammaticis consarcinatus. 25r-48v Author Cassiodorus Senator Rubric (25r) Incipit Prefatio Cassiodori Senatoris super ortographiam Incipit (25r) Cum inter nos talia gererentur Explicit (25r) distincta sunt Rubric (25r) Explicit Prefatio Note (Keil, VII 142-210) Incipit (25r) Post commenta psalterii Explicit (27r) si modo liuor abest Rubric (27r) Cassiodori senatoris explicit Item Prefatio Note (Keil, 147) Incipit (27r) Ex agneo cornuto Explicit (27r) nihil hominus (!) est discendum Rubric (27r) Agnei Cornuti de enuntiatione uel ortographia ista revelata (!) sunt Incipit (27r) Animaduerti quosdam Note Ends Explicit (48v) poenali Societate coniungi. hunc cassiodorus senatoris de ortographia librum ex duodecim auctorum opusculis defloratum Title Flavius Caper, De orthographia. 49r-53r Nasmith Liber Capri de orthographia. 49r-53r Author Flavius Caper Rubric (49r) Incipit liber Capri de ortographia Incipit (49r) Hec uia quo ducimus non ubi (!) Note (Keil, VII 92) Explicit (53r) a similitudine fallarum (stellarum) Note Keil, p. 107 Title Flavius Caper, De uerbis dubiis. 53r-59v Author Flavius Caper Rubric (53r) Item Capri de verbis dubiis Incipit (53r) In singularibus uerbis Note (Keil, VII 107) Ends Explicit (55r) pedagogus nutritor paruulorum Note (Keil, VII 112, note) Incipit (55r) Licet origo nominum unde ueniat a philosophis eam teneat rationem ut per denominationem homo ab humanitate Explicit (55r) quedam in hoc opere posuimus Incipit (55r) Aeros uir fortis et sapiens Note Ends Explicit (59v) Indagatores a latores pressores. Uenator quasi uenebu Title Agroecius, De orthographia. 59v-64v Nasmith Oegrocii ars. 59v-64v Author Agroecius Rubric (59v) Incipit ars oEgrocii (59v) Incipit prefatio eiusdem ad Eucherium Episcopum Incipit (59v) Domino eucherio in domino episcopo salutem agroecius libellum Capri de ortographia Note (Keil, VII 113) Ends Explicit (64v) de turmentis dicimus et de precibus Note (Keil, VII 125) (65r) The last leaf is blank
TJames	vac.
Stanley	Lib. ab Al. 24
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xs065nt0349
Location	MS 221
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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