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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

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

M.R. James Date

xii late or xiii early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz811vw9762/MS_72.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jr078pg2006/72.pdf

Contains

• Gospel Lectionary. 1r-147r

  James

  Evangelia. 1r-147r

  Note

  (1r) A Table of Gospels for the year. The use seems to be Roman
  (13r) The Four Gospels. The first leaf of Matthew is gone
  The margins are broad, and in them (besides the Ammonian sections in black) are the names of the feasts on which Gospels are to be read, in red and blue. Each section has a beautiful initial (without gold) blue or red, filled with very charming ornament in red, blue, yellow or green
  Prologue to Mark

  Incipit

  (48r) (Marcus euangelista dei) et petri

  Note

  f. 49r-49v blank
  (50r) Text of Mark with magnificent initial: conventional foliage on gold, edged with green
  Prologue to Luke

  Incipit

  (73v) (Lucas Syrus)

  Note

  74v blank
  (75r) Text of Luke with magnificent initial (containing a dragon)
  On f. 92r in red and blue capitals, only slightly later than the other rubrics, In die Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli
  On margins of 92v, 93r are pencil sketches of initials and ornaments
  (116r) Prologue to John
  (117r) Text with admirable initial
  (147r) Ends

TJames

298

Stanley

V. 5

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 072

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