Description
Alternative title
Rabanus de Naturis Rerum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 223
Date created
[ca. 1100-1199]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 39 lines
Height (mm)
410
Width (mm)
295
Collation
1(8)-28(8) (wants 8).
Writing
in a fine clear hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-223 + iii-iv
Provenance
I cannot detect any mark of monastic provenance; but the elaborate initial to the text finds many parallels in Christ Church, Canterbury books. The hand is not characteristic of that house.
Decoration
The decoration is confined to initials. The prologue (f. 1r) has one in gold on blue ground, and filled with colour, the 2nd prologue (f. 2r) one in colour. The text (f. 2v), a very handsome panelled gold one on pink ground edged with green, containing conventional foliage in colour and two small lions. Each chapter has a good one in colour, and each book a somewhat more elaborate one.
2 fo.
ad omnes electos
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 11 is a twelfth-century copy of Hrabanus Maurus's ninth-century encyclopaedic text De rerum naturis, also known as De uniuerso. Neil Ker rejected M. R. James's suggestion that the manuscript was a product of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and more recent work by Schipper has stated that the manuscript is of uncertain provenance, but certainly English. The manuscript has been studied very little, considered as a late copy of the text and thus of lesser interest; however, it is perhaps a useful witness to a renewed interest in Carolingian scholarship in twelfth-century England.
- Contents
- De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis
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