Description
Alternative title
Claudius Clemens super Matthaeum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 192 + 1
Date created
[ca. 900 CE - 999 CE]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 34 lines
Height (mm)
385
Width (mm)
280
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(8)-23(8) 24(10) (wants 9, 10): old foliation incorrect.
Writing
in a fine upright minuscule
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-124 + 124a + 125-192 + c-d
Provenance
Leland Collectanea IV 150 saw at Sherborne Abbey: Claudius super Matthaeum scriptus litteris Longobardicis. Mr Bradshaw noted that it had belonged to Bale.
Additions
Binding, old boards re-covered. At the end is part of a leaf of a finely written service-book in xvth cent. English hand containing Epistles. Both on the flyleaf (iiv) and at top of f. 1r are the letters BO in a xvth cent. hand. On the flyleaf (iiv) is an old title (xv-xvi) and a xvith cent. note on Claudius Clemens.
2 fo.
tore et aduocato
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 88 contains the Commentary on Matthew of Claudius Taurinensis, bishop of Turin (d. c. 827). This work has not been edited, with the exception of the epistolary preface, and some of the early sections which were examined in McMenomy's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Claudius wrote this text in the early ninth century; his iconoclastic views led to his often being attacked as a heretic, although he was never officially condemned. This manuscript has split scholarly opinion over its origin: the most usually accepted view is that it was written on the Continent in the tenth century; however it has also been suggested that it was written in England either circa 1000 or in the first half of the eleventh century. It contains a flyleaf from a fifteenth-century service-book. CCCC MS 88 may possibly be identifiable with a manuscript seen by John Leland (d. 1552) at Sherborne Abbey in the 1530s. It seems to have later belonged to the historian John Bale (1495-1563), for whom Parker found work at Canterbury in his declining years.
- Contents
- Commentary on Matthew
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