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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 072: Gospel Lectionary

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 072: Gospel Lectionary

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/hp146pz7537
MS 072
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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