Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc

Alternate Title:

Augustini Confessiones. Ferrandus

Language:

Latin and English, Middle (1100-1500)

Extent:

ff. 1 + 142

Dimensions:

275 Height (mm) and 185 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1000 - 1099]

Provenance:

I have little doubt that this book belonged to Canterbury or Rochester, but I cannot trace it in the catalogues.

Table of contents:

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• Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones)
• Confessiones
• Epistola ad Reginum comitem (epistola 7)
• Hymn for St Augustine
• On the youth of the Virgin Mary

Description:

This twelfth-century manuscript contains copies of Augustine, Confessiones, and the guide to Christian life for soldiers by Ferrandus, deacon of Carthage (d. 546/7). The works by Augustine are in a fine hand, with exceptional illuminated initials. There is, in a twelfth-century hand, a hymn to St Augustine, with music on a three-line stave. There are some late medieval additions at the end of the manuscript. James suggested that CCCC MS 253 originated in Canterbury or Rochester, but this was rejected by Ker and its provenance remains uncertain.