Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 199: Ieuan ap Sulien's Augustine on the Trinity
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- Contents
- De trinitate
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xi
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mz492vb5957/MS_199.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dc248rg6033/199.pdf
- Contains
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- Augustine, De trinitate. 1r-76r
- Author
- Augustine
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipiunt capitula libri primi. Sancti Aurelii Augustini Kartaginensis Episcopi De Sancta Trinitate
- Note
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(XLII 819)
(1r) Capitula follow - Rubric
- (1r) Expliciunt capitula libri primi
- Note
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(1r) Some writing of cent. xiii-xiv has been erased below this
(1v) Verses of John, son of Sulgen
(1v) In patris natique simul flatusque superniEiusdem deitatis opus hoc nomine tangoOmnipotens clemensque deus quem semper in altisSiderei cetus pariter solimeque phalangesNomine mirifico uenerantur trinus et unusAd plenum scriptoris opus mis perfice tandemCvuncti (?) quem solito Johannes famine fantur - Incipit
- (1v) Domino beatissimo ... pape aurilio augustinus in domino salutem
- Rubric
- (1v) Incipit nunc prefatio siue prologus
- Incipit
- (1v) De trinitate que deus summus
- Explicit
- (2r) librorum iubeas anteponi
- Rubric
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(2r) Explicit prefatio siue prologus
(2r) Incipit primus liber Sancti Aurelii Augustini Kartaginensis Episcopi de Sancta Trinitate - Note
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On these pages are three beautiful Celtic initials in vermilion, green, black, yellow, surrounded with dots. Subsequent initials to books and chapters are of the same fine execution. At the top of many pages are lines by the original scribe: many are partially cut off. His habit is to prefix a distich to the beginning of each book
Before most of these headlines is a sign like a Φ, a monogram of JO (for Johannes). The surviving lines are as follows
(2r) Tu genitor tu nate quidem tu spiritus alme | gap | finem pertingere dona
(4v) Si mihi concedat scribendi | gap | simul dederit sana uirtute foueri
(5r) almost wholly gone: Qui residet solio t ... per | gap | pergam ...
(5v) Antistes dauid open succurre precantis
(9v) Conditor humane sobolis pariterque redemptor Nunc mihi presidium scribenti ferre memento
(10v) Auxilium dauidque tuum fer sancte paterne
(11r) Welsh inscription, discovered by Mr Bradshaw, communicated by him to the Rev. D. Silvan Evans, and printed (among Miscellaneous Notices) in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1874, Series 4, Vol. V, p. 340. Mr Bradshaw (Collected Papers, p. 465) says in speaking of the MS. before us: In one case is a Welsh quatrain ... docked by the binder of part of its last line, but much resembling some lines in the Gododin, though not identical. Except the two poems in the Juvencus MS., it is the only scrap of verse written down before the xiith century as yet discovered, and so is most precious; especially as we can date it almost to a certainty, seeing it must have been written down some time between 1080 and 1090. It is in this scrap that the letter y first appears in Welsh, a letter which forms such a prominent feature in all later Welsh writing ... no one seems to have ventured upon a satisfactory version of it. The note in Arch. Cambr. says: According to Mr Bradshaw it was written ... between 1079 and 1089 at Llanbadarn Fawr in the county of Cardigan. The lines slope upward and are cut off at the end. Amdinnit trynit trylenn · Amtrybann teirbann treisguenn · Amcen creiriou (indistinguishable to me from creirum) gurth cyrrguenn · Amdifuys a ... patern ... The verses says Mr Bradshaw are marked by the point and the coloured initial, as well as by the rhyme.
(12v) Liber I ends - Rubric
- (12v) Explicit liber primus Nunc secundus sequitur liber de trinitate
- Note
- (12v) (top)
- Incipit
- (12v) Incipit ... g(enitor) ... sa tuque Creator Huius et ad finem libri perducito culmen
- Note
- (21v) (Liber III)
- Incipit
- (21v) Tertius orditur liber, at pater adde iuuamen Tangat ut optatum diuino munere finem
- Note
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(24r) ps. ... || ... ti [? funde. pande] pretende fauorem
(26v) Liber III breaks off in ch. 23 - Explicit
- (26v) Et si dicimus prophe ...
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Liber IV is gone
Liber V begins at f. 27r; at top - Incipit
- (27r) Lumine qui quinto nantes uolucresque creauit Quinto nunc libro scriptoris facta secundet
- Note
- (31v) (Liber VI)
- Incipit
- (31v) Sextus nunc oritur fastus. Tu conditor adde Presidium semper scribenti numine largo
- Note
- (35r) (Liber VII)
- Incipit
- (35r) Septimus assurgit nodoso iure libellus Auxilium tu Christe tuum nunc pandere cura
- Note
- Liber VII breaks off in ch. 19
- Explicit
- (36v) Et in ipso ambulantes thronum ad ipsum
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- (37r) This folio begins in Liber XI 16
- Incipit
- (37r) fuit separata. Sed quam post (?) coeram separata manet
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- (41v) (Liber XII)
- Incipit
- (41v) Arbiter ob merita cunctis qui iure rependis Ultima tangendo duodenum conde uolumen
- Note
- (47v) (Liber XIII)
- Incipit
- (47v) Tresdecimi norma radiat nunc arte polita, Cuncta sed omnipotens transactis finibus aptet
- Note
- (54r) (Liber XIV)
- Incipit
- (54r) Conditor almipotens eternis sedibus asstans Quartum nunc decimum iusto moderamine comple
- Note
- (62v) (Liber XV)
- Incipit
- (62v) Alme tonans clemensque deus qui trinus et unus Quinti iam decimi summam tu largiter auge
- Note
- (76r) Text ends
- Explicit
- (76r) Et tu ignosce et tui. Quini ter libri magno sudore peracti Sunt Augustino tractati presule summo
- Note
- (76r) Then follows the poem of the scribe, John son of Sulgen and brother of Ricemarch: last printed by Haddan and Stubbs Councils I 663
- Incipit
- (76r) Arbiter altithrone nutu qui cuncta gubernas
- Note
- (78r) ending
- Explicit
- (78r) Alleluia pio cantu sine fine per euum. Amen
- Note
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At top of ff. 77v, 78r is a note in the original hand
Ag. Natura est que nec motatur per tempora. Nec variatur. Nec inseparabilis. Sed constat in se. Ut stabilitas in terra. Grauitas in lapidibus. Humiditas in aqua Leuitas in acre et in pluma. Claritas et Calor in igne
On f. 78v are notes in a hand of cent. xiii-xiv which has annotated the text throughout
On the flyleaves (ff. 79r-80v) are notes of Parkerian date on King Lucius, Dubritius, etc.
- Augustine, De trinitate. 1r-76r
- TJames
- 169
- Stanley
- N. 5
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/sk095st1718
- MS 199
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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