Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 199: Ieuan ap Sulien's Augustine on the Trinity

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 199: Ieuan ap Sulien's Augustine on the Trinity

Alternate Title:

Augustinus de Trinitate

Language:

Latin and Welsh

Extent:

ff. 78 + 1

Dimensions:

275 Height (mm) and 180 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1000 - 1099]

Provenance:

I have little doubt that Bishop Davies sent it to Parker Stanley in his Catalogue mentions two letters of the Bishop of St David's to Parker quae extant ad finem huius libri. They are not now to be found. from St David's

Table of contents:

De trinitate

Description:

CCCC MS 199 is a copy of Augustine of Hippo, De trinitate, made c. 1090 at Llanbadarn Fawr by Ieuan ap Sulien (d. 1137). Ieuan was from a prominent literary family; his brother, Rhigyfarch (d. 1099), wrote a Life of St David and succeeded his father, Sulien (d. 1091), as bishop of St David's. Some of Ieuan's own verses in Latin and Welsh survive in the margins of this manuscript, but unfortunately part of the Welsh verse was lost in 1953 when the manuscript was rebound. The main text of this manuscript is written in a very attractive hand, with some beautiful decorated initials. The flyleaf contains a ninth-century fragment of Smaragdus (fl. 809-17) in a Carolingian minuscule, possibly from Rheims.