Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 086: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Matthew

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 086: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Matthew

Alternate Title:

Rabanus super Matthaeum

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 187

Dimensions:

395 Height (mm) and 260 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1100 - 1199]

Provenance:

From Rievaulx. On f. 1r at top in capitals: Liber Sancte Marie Rievallis. Occurs in the Catalogue printed in my Catalogue of MSS. at Jesus College (p. 47)

Table of contents:

Commentary on Matthew

Description:

This manuscript is a fine twelfth-century copy of Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Commentary on Matthew. It is one of very few manuscripts in the Parker Library to retain its original binding, a very fine example of its time. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and ff. 1r-4v. The provenance of the manuscript is the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, where it was listed in a late twelfth-century catalogue. As with CCCC MS 11, this manuscript attests to the continued influence of Carolingian scholarship in twelfth-century England.