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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 011: Hrabanus Maurus, De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 011: Hrabanus Maurus, De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis

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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:df938gf5802/MS_11.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zh154rr4455/11.pdf
Contains
  • Hrabanus Maurus, De uniuerso seu De rerum naturis. 1r-222v
    Author
    Hrabanus Maurus
    Rubric
    (1r) Rabanus de uniuerso uel de Naturis rerum
    Note
    (P. L. CXI)
    Incipit
    (1r) Domino excellentissimo et omni honore dignissimo hluduuico regis Rabanus
    Explicit
    (2r) gaudio beatificet sempiterno
    Rubric
    (2r) Ad haymonem episcopum
    Incipit
    (2r) Domino reuerentissimo
    Explicit
    (2v) intra in gaudium domini tui
    Note
    (2v) Capitula libri primi
    Text
    Rubric
    (2v) De Deo
    Incipit
    (2v) Primum apud hebreos dei nomen ely
    Note
    (9r) Liber II
    (15r) Liber III
    (22r) Liber IV
    (33r) Liber V
    (46v) Liber VI
    (62v) Liber VII
    (77r) Liber VIII
    (92r) Liber IX
    (101v) Liber X
    (110v) Liber XI
    (118v) Liber XII
    (129v) Liber XIII
    (135v) Liber XIV
    (149v) Liber XV
    (158r) Liber XVI
    (167r) Liber XVII
    (175r) Liber XVIII
    (184r) Liber XIX
    (194v) Liber XX
    (204r) Liber XXI
    (213r) Liber XXII
    Ends
    Explicit
    (222v) una potestas una cooperatio est
    Rubric
    (222v) Explicit liber xxii Rabani magistri
    Note
    f. 223r-223v blank
    (45r) Some xvith cent. marginal notes on the sacrament
TJames
242
Stanley
P. 12
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 011

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