Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 223: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Liber apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia, Peristephanon, Contra symmachum, Dittochaeon, De opusculis suis

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 223: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Liber apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia, Peristephanon, Contra symmachum, Dittochaeon, De opusculis suis
Alternate Title:
Prudentius
Language:
Latin, Greek, Modern (1453- ), and English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Extent:
ff. 2 + 168
Dimensions:
245 Height (mm) and 180 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 800 CE - 999 CE]
Provenance:
Given by Daniel Rogers, whose name is at each end and in the cover. Evidently it was once at St Bertin's Abbey (or an English dependency of that abbey).
Table of contents:
  • Notes on Kings of France and the Abbey of Saint-Bertin, medical recipes
  • Cathemerinon, Hymns 1 and 2
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 3
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 4
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 5
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 6
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 7
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 8
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 9
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 10
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 11
  • Cathemerinon, Hymn 12
  • Liber apotheosis
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Liber apotheosis continued
  • Hamartigenia
  • Psychomachia
  • Peristephanon, carmen 10
  • Peristephanon, carmen 1
  • Peristephanon, carmen 2
  • Peristephanon, carmen 3
  • Peristephanon, carmen 4
  • Peristephanon, carmen 5
  • Peristephanon, carmen 6
  • Peristephanon, carmen 7
  • Peristephanon, carmina 8-9
  • Peristephanon, carmen 11
  • Peristephanon, carmen 12
  • Peristephanon, carmen 13
  • Peristephanon, carmen 14
  • Contra Symmachum
  • Dittochaeon
  • De opusculis suis
  • Carmina (Versus ad Karolum regem)
Description:
CCCC MS 223 is an example of the type of manuscript which was being imported into late Anglo-Saxon England from the Continent. It contains a number of works by Prudentius (348-c. 410), including his famous Psychomachia, as well as the unique surviving copy of a poem by John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810-c. 877) to the Carolingian emperor, Charles the Bald. It was written at the abbey of Saint-Vaast in Arras around the third quarter of the ninth century. By the end of the ninth century it had moved to the abbey of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer, where some annals were added to leaves at the front. In the tenth century it moved to England, and where it acquired additions and glosses, some in Old English. It has been suggested that Grimbald of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the 890s at the request of King Alfred, may have brought this manuscript with him. This manuscript was one of the books owned by Daniel Rogers.
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