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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 134: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 134: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

Description

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

Abstract/Contents

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/cq531ww5470
MS 134
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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