Description
Alternative title
Evangelia
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 147
Date created
[ca. 1175 - 1225]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
30 lines to a page
Height (mm)
291
Width (mm)
207
Collation
1(12) (misbound but complete) 2(8) (wants 1) 3(8)-6(8) (one canc.) 7(8)-10(8) (1 canc.) 11(8)-15(8) (5 canc.) 16(8)-18(8) 19 (three).
Writing
in a splendid black hand, which suggests St Albans to me
Foliation
ff. a-b + 1-147 + c-d
Provenance
The book is of English work, and, as I said, more like St Albans to my mind than Canterbury. But the addition of St Augustine's feast - the only one, I think, to be found, - does suggest that Canterbury was its home.
2 fo.
Abraham
Feria
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- Although arranged according to the texts of the four Gospels, rather than arranging the specific readings according to the Sundays and feast days of the year, CCCC MS 72, was intended to serve as a Gospel Lectionary for the readings at Mass. It begins with a table of the Gospel readings for the church year, and in the margins are the names of the days on which the appropriate passages of text are to be read. The Gospel text has been compared with Bibles produced at Canterbury and Glunz classifies it as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. Although M. R. James thought that it might have been made at St Albans, it is now thought more likely that it was made at Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury. It has three very large and fine illuminated ornamental initials, and many smaller ones. A dating of the book to the closing years of the twelfth century, perhaps c. 1180, seems likely.
- Contents
- Gospel Lectionary
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