Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 009: The Cotton-Corpus Legendary

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 009: The Cotton-Corpus Legendary
Alternate Title:
Passionale
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 229 + 2
Dimensions:
402 Height (mm) and 297 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
I suppose the book to come from Worcester Priory.
Table of contents:
  • Calendar and computus tables
  • Passio, translatio et miracula Sancti Saluii
  • Vita Sancti Nicholai, and other Nicholas texts
  • Vita Sancti Rumwaldi
  • Vita Sanctorum Cirycus et Iulitta
  • Contents list
  • Vita Sancti Remigii
  • Vita Sancti Vedasti
  • Homilia in die natali Sancti Vedasti
  • Passio Sancti Piatonis
  • Vita Sancti Leodegarii
  • Passio Sancti Dionysii
  • Passio Sanctorum Sergii et Bacchi
  • Vita Sancti Richarii
  • Passio Sancti Callisti papae
  • Passio Sanctorum Crispini et Crispiniani
  • Passio et inuentio Sancti Quintini
  • Passio Sanctorum Caesarii et Iuliani
  • Vita et passio Sancti Eustachii
  • Vita Sancti Hucberti
  • Vita Sancti Winnoci
  • Passio Sanctorum Claudii, Nicostrati, Simphroniani, Castorii et Simplicii
  • Passio Sancti Theodori
  • Passio Sancti Mennae
  • Texts on St Martin
  • Vita Sancti Bricii
  • Dialogi ii and iii
  • Vita Sancti Aniani
  • Passio Sanctae Caeciliae
  • Passio Sancti Longini
  • Passio Sancti Clementis I
  • Miracula Sancti Clementis I
  • Vita Sancti Trudonis
  • Passio Sanctorum Chrysogoni, Agapes, Theodotae et Anastasiae
  • Passio Sanctorum Saturnini et Sisinnii
  • Passio Sanctorum Chrysanthi et Dariae
  • Vita Sancti Eligii
  • Passio Sancti Sabini
  • Passio Sanctae Eulaliae
  • Passio Sanctorum Fusciani, Victorici et Gentiani
  • Passio Sanctarum Luceiae, Auceiae et sociis
  • Passio Sanctae Anastasiae
  • Passio Sanctorum Eugeniae, Proti et Hyacinthi
  • Passio Sancti Marini
  • Passio Sanctorum Maximi et sociis
  • Passio Sanctae Luciae
  • Vita Sancti Iudoci
  • Passio Sanctae Christinae
  • Aduentus et exceptio corporis Sanctorum Benedicti et Scholasticae in agrum Floriacensem
Description:
MS 9 is one of two volumes which together constitute 'The Cotton–Corpus Legendary'; the other is London, BL MS Cotton Nero E. I. CCCC MS 9 contains saints' lives pertaining to the months of October, November and December, as well as a calendar which may once have been part of a separate volume. The book is important because it is part of the earliest surviving multi-volume legendary from England. An earlier version of the same legendary, compiled on the Continent, was in England by the late tenth century, where it was extensively used by Ælfric in writing his Old English Lives of Saints. It is therefore a very important witness to the knowledge of the saints' lives in late Anglo-Saxon England, and has implications for our understanding of the interactions between vernacular and Latin literature. The manuscript contains work by known Worcester scribes, including one who wrote a charter for 1058. The calendar and computistical material found at the start of MS 9 include a Easter tables for the years 1032-62 and 1063-94, and the manuscript was probably therefore written before 1062. It contains later additions of a hagiographical nature also made at Worcester.
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