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Alternative title

Amalarius

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 97 + 1

Date created

[ca. 952 CE]

Language

Latin, Celtic (Other), Greek, Modern (1453- )

Material

Vellum

Layout

26, 30, 31 lines to a page

Height (mm)

283

Width (mm)

195

Collation

i(12) (two cancels) ii(8) iii(12) (two cancels) iv(10) v(12) (two cancels) vi(10)-viii(10) ix(12) (two cancels) x(10) (wants 10): 1 flyleaf.

Writing

in two main hands at least

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-99 + c-d

Provenance

Written at Landevennech in Brittany and afterwards in the library of Christ Church, Canterbury (no. 74 (not 73) in Eastry's Catalogue, Ancient Libraries, p. 24).

2 fo.

quid sit

usque dum

Summary

This manuscript contains a copy of the Liber officialis of Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850), written in Brittany, at the monastery of Landévennec, in the year 952. We can identify the year the manuscript was written on account of a scribal colophon, in fact the work of two scribes, on f. 97v, which contains detailed chronological information from a paschal table. The colophon also tells us that 'Amadeus, deacon and monk, ordered this little book to be written'. The manuscript includes many interlinear glosses, some of them in Breton, which were published by Whitley Stokes. At some point before the thirteenth century the manuscript arrived in England, where it has a provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.

Contents

Liber officialis

M.R. James Date

x (952)

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mq827zg1705/MS_192.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mn277sg2267/192.pdf

Contains

• Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis. 1r-99r

  Nasmith

  Collectio Amalarii viri doctissimi de ordine Romanae ecclesiae qui vocatur liber officialis. 1r-99r

  Author

  Amalarius of Metz

  Note

  (1r) Title in capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) Collectio amalarii uiri doctissimi de ordine Romane aeclesiae. qui vocatur liber officialis

  Note

  (P. L. CV)
  (1r) A small letter a (xiv ?) at upper R. corner
  (1r) Capitula of two books

  Rubric

  (2v) Expliciunt capitula libri .ii
  (2v) Incipit collectio ... officialis

  Note

  At top of f. 3r (xiv)
  (3r) Amalarius de ordine ecc ...
  (3r) (corner of leaf torn off)
  The preliminary letter to Louis the Pious is absent

  Incipit

  (3r) Postquam scripsi libellum qui a mea paruitate uocatur de eclesiastico officio

  Note

  (Praefatio altera, belonging to the revised form of the work, P. L. CV 987)
  (3r) The hand is a rough and unskilled Carolingian minuscule
  There are fairly numerous interlinear glosses, among which Mr Bradshaw (Collected Papers, p. 472) detected several in Breton. These were printed by Dr Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique, 1879-80, p. 338
  Initials are rough, filled with patches of dull red and yellow
  The first obvious change of hand is on f. 13v
  A third hand, much larger and rounder, appears on ff. 37r-38v, thus
  (37r) Liber I, Capitulum xxxviii. De observatione dierum etc.
  ends

  Explicit

  (37r) et sunt omnes dies tamquam dominica

  Note

  Then a heading not in the capitula

  Rubric

  (37r) Paulisper de ministratoribus persecutionis Christi quid actum sit uideamus

  Incipit

  (37r) Primus herodes sub quo passi sunt infantes

  Note

  On the deaths of the Herods and Pilate and destruction of Jerusalem, mostly from Josephus

  Explicit

  (38v) et qui in sollempnitate pasche dominum crucifixerunt in eadem sollempnitate ab hostibus perirent

  Rubric

  (38v) Hieronimus in libro ebraicorum nominum

  Incipit

  (38v) Iscarioth memoriale domini

  Explicit

  (38v) et de uico eiusdem tribus ischarioth dominum uendidit

  Note

  (39r) Liber II, i, de xii lectionibus
  (39r) The second hand resumes, and, I think, continues to the end
  At R. upper corner of 39r is xb (? for Christe benedic)
  A curiously indented piece has been cut out of the bottom of 39r-39v
  f. 47r-47v is mutilated
  In the margins, throughout, a large L is frequently written
  Cap. lxi or lxii De sexta feria ends

  Explicit

  (97r) quia in ea peracta est

  Note

  (Liber IV capitulum xvi in P. L. CV)
  (97r) ΦΙΝΙΘ DΗΩ ΓΡΛΘΙΛΣ ΛΜΗΝ
  On f. 97v is the inscription given by Nasmith (corrected by me)
  (97v) Anno a natiuitate dni nri ihu xpi dcccclii decima indictione epactis x(x)ii concurrens iiiitus cum bisexto; ciclo lunari xixo luna xiiiia pasche ID. aprilis. dies pasche. xiiiio kl. MAI; luna ipsius diei xviiiia; iussit amadeus diaconus atque habitu monachus hunc libellum scribere pro sua anima ad utilitatem fratrum: et quicunque legerit uel scrutatus fuerit aut scripserit eum precor ut dicat, anima eius requiescat in pace; Sed et quicunque eum rapuerit uel per uim siue per latrocinium abstulerit a fratribus sancti uuingualoei in cuius honore est scriptus anathema sit amaranatha in aduentu dni, omnibus fratribus haec atestantibus
  (97v) The date is dccccLii but the L is nearly gone
  After this is a single leaf (f. 99r) in double columns of 35 lines written apparently on one side only. The script is of much the same character as that of the volume, but smaller
  At top in a large hand xii-xiii is

  Rubric

  (99r) Amalarius de ordine ecclesiastici officii

  Note

  which seems characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury
  The text begins

  Incipit

  (99r) In caena domini reseruetur de ipso corpore domini unde in crastinum

  Note

  and ends (De sabbato sancto)

  Explicit

  (99r) Statim sequitur antiphona ad magnificat et oratio n. Et finita sunt ipsa die

  Note

  A facsimile of f. 49r and of the colophon is given in the New Palaeographical Society's publication for 1907 (pl. 109)

TJames

55

Stanley

E. 9

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 192

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