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Alternative title

Berengaudus Super Apocalypsim

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 170 + 3

Date created

[ca. 1100-1199]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

30 lines to a page

Height (mm)

315

Width (mm)

200

Collation

a(2) i(8)-xiii(8) (3 canc.) xiv(8)-xvi(8) (one canc.) xvii(8)-xxi(8) xxii(4) b(1).

Writing

in more than one very round and black hand

Foliation

ff. aa-bb + a-b + i-ii + 1-170 + iii + c-d

Provenance

The flyleaves (iv-iiv, iiir) are fragments of an account roll. On the first, land iuxta Burghbrygg is mentioned. On the second is the entry de manerio de Alwalton. On that at the end ad Rectoriam de Wermer. Alwalton suggests Peterborough: but Pentney (see below) is also possible.

2 fo.

at age penitentiam

Summary

The commentary on the Apocalypse by Berengaudus in CCCC MS 134 was the most popular Apocalypse commentary in medieval England. Many copies of English provenance survive and excerpts from the text are used in most of the English illustrated Apocalypses. This book is from the Benedictine Abbey of Peterborough and can probably be identified in a list of books intended for reading in the refectory. On the basis of comparison of its script with other Peterborough manuscripts the dating of the book is c. 1125-1150. Berengaudus is a man of whom very little is known of his dates or where he was writing. The main controversy is whether he can be identified with Berengaudus of Ferrières who lived in the second half of the ninth century or another Berengaudus writing in the second half of the eleventh century.

Contents

Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

M.R. James Date

xii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fy324dy9554/MS_134.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zf041gs3952/134.pdf

Contains

• Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis. 2r-170v

  Author

  Berengaudus

  Note

  (2r) At top, old title: Berengaldus super Apocalipsin

  Rubric

  (2r) Incipit liber Apocalipsin. id est Revelationis

  Note

  (red capitals)

  Incipit

  (2r) Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi etc.

  Note

  (2r) Fine initial in red outline: grounds purple and yellow
  (Text of Apoc. I - III)

  Rubric

  (4v) Incipit expositio prime visionis in Apocalipsin

  Incipit

  (4v) Beatum Johannem apostolum et evangelistam

  Note

  (P. L. XVII 765 (843))
  (4v) Fine initial in red outline: yellow panelling: grotesque human figures
  The subsequent visions have plainer initials on red and green
  Ends

  Explicit

  (170r) participes esse mereamur. qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

  Rubric

  (170r) Explicit expositio libri apocalipsis

  Incipit

  (170r) Quisquis nomen auctoris scire

  Explicit

  (170v) vel certe in melius commutandum

  Rubric

  (170v) Explicit liber

TJames

239

Stanley

P. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 134

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