Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279: Synods and Canons (Hibernensis), Synodus Patricii. Augustini dicta de conjugum ratione. Liber ex Lege Moysi. Canones Hibernensis
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- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279: Synods and Canons (Hibernensis), Synodus Patricii. Augustini dicta de conjugum ratione. Liber ex Lege Moysi. Canones Hibernensis
- Alternate Title:
- Synodus Patricii. Canones
- Language:
- Latin
- Extent:
- ff. 96
- Dimensions:
- 260 Height (mm) and 170 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 800 CE - 999 CE]
- Provenance:
- From Worcester: see below. and On pp. 30 sqq. Mr. Bradshaw prints the paragraphs partly of Irish origin which are appended to the Liber ex lege Moysi and discusses them. On p. 32 he says until fresh evidence is forthcoming, I shall believe that the present manuscript, whether it was itself transcribed in the Cambrai and Arras district or elsewhere, owes its origin to manuscripts then preserved in Brittany.
- Table of contents:
- Synods and Canons (Hibernensis), Synodus Patricii. Augustini dicta de conjugum ratione. Liber ex lege Moysi. Canones Hibernensis
- Description:
- CCCC MS 279 is a significant source for the study of the development and transmission of early medieval canon collections. The manuscript was written in north-west France, in the late ninth or early tenth century, in a script derived from Tours. The book was in England by c. 1000 and has a later medieval provenance at Worcester. The textual content of the manuscript is derived from Irish and Breton sources; the contents include the only extant copy of the canons of the 'First Synod of Patrick', a copy of the Liber ex lege Moysi, whose Irish connections are the subject of some debate, and a copy of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis. The manuscript is particularly important as a witness to the Breton, and later English, transmission of the Collectio. There are additional glosses in Breton and Old Irish, although the latter were copied into the manuscript by a Breton scribe, resulting in some orthographical confusion.