Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 160: Bede the Venerable, Commentary on Catholic Epistles
Beda super Epistolas Canonicas
mixed material
ff. 102 + 2
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double columns of 29 lines
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a(2) I(8) (wants 1) II(8)-X(8) XI(10) XII(8) XXIII(8) (wants 6-8).
in fine round hand script with a slight slope, rather irregular
ff. i-ii + a-b + 1-102 + iii-iv
At top of f. 1r erased and revived: liber Refectorij burg. Also, not erased: Beda super canonicas epistolas (xiv). The same in lower margin erased. Burg' almost certainly means Peterborough.
Two flyleaves (ff. a-b) from a handsome xvth cent. service-book: music of office for Common of Apostles.
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CCCC MS 160 is an early twelfth-century copy of Bede on the seven Catholic Epistles (the New Testament books James, I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John, III John, and Jude, as distinct from the Pauline epistles). James recorded a medieval ex libris inscription, now lost, which stated that the book was from in the refectory at Peterborough Abbey, and a thirteenth-century list of refectory books there, preserved in CCCC MS 459, includes Beda super Canonicas Epistolas, to be read in the weeks before Rogationtide. The manuscript also contains flyleaves from a service book with music, datable on the grounds of decoration to the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
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MS 160
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https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rc504cq5546/160.pdf
Bede the Venerable, Commentary on Catholic Epistles
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Bede the Venerable
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Heading in red capitals
(1r) Explanatio uenerabilis Bede presbiteri super [septem added] canonicas epistolas
(P. L. XCIII 9)
(1r) IacobusPetrusJohannesIudas septem epistolas
(1v) Epistola Jacobi
(26r) Epistola 1 Petri
(49r) Epistola 2 Petri
(64v) Epistola 1 Johannis
(94r) Epistola 2 Johannis
(95v) Epistola 3 Johannis
(97r) EpistolaJude
Ending
(102v) sed ante omne seculum et nunc et per omnia secula seculorum Amen
(102v) Explicit expositio Bede presbiteri super canonicas epistolas
This couplet is written twice in a hand of xiv, xv
Non aliter melius poterit caro uiua domariMortua qualis erit quam semper premeditari
Parker Manuscripts
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