Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 221: Orthographical Works by Alcuin, Bede and others
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 221 consists of two volumes bound together to make a collection of works on orthography by Alcuin, Bede, Cassiodorus, Flavius Caper, and Agroecius. The first part, containing the works by Alcuin and Bede, was probably written at a Breton centre on the Continent in the first half of the tenth century. It has a few marginal notes in Tironian shorthand. The second part, which is probably tenth-century, may be either Continental or English. Because Bishop thought that the first part shares a scribe with Cambridge, Gonville and Caius, MS 144/194, a manuscript with certain medieval provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury, this manuscript has been associated with St Augustine's as well. However, its complete lack of St Augustine's provenance marks does make that less likely. It was one of the manuscripts which came to Corpus from the collection of Daniel Rogers, who acquired books both in England and on his extensive travels abroad.
- Contents
- De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De orthographia -- De uerbis dubiis -- De orthographia
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- ix-x and x-xi
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yn950mw1046/MS_221.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hw623bs9363/221.pdf
- Contains
-
- Alcuin, De orthographia. 1r-9r
- Nasmith
- Orthographia Albini magistri. 1r-9r
- Author
- Alcuin
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipit Ortographya Albini Magistri Me legat antiquas cupiat qui scire loquelas Me spernens loquitur mox sine lege patrum
- Incipit
- (1r) Aeternus aetas per ae dyptongon
- Note
-
(Keil, Grammatici Latini. VII 295)
Ends in the letter R - Explicit
- (9r) hirtus, hirtuleus hirrus proprium
- Note
- (Keil, 309, l. 12)
- Rubric
- (9r) Finet ortographya Albini Magistri
- Bede the Venerable, De orthographia. 9r-24v
- Nasmith
- Liber de orthographia Bedae presbiteri. 9r-24v
- Author
- Bede the Venerable
- Rubric
- (9r) Incipit Liber de ortographia Bedae presbiteri
- Incipit
- (9r) A littera etiam nota praenominis
- Note
-
(Keil, VII 261-294)
(19v) Hand changes at f. 19v col. 2
Ends - Explicit
- (24v) oratoris sermo pervenit
- Cassiodorus Senator, De orthographia. 25r-48v
- Nasmith
- Cassiodori senatoris liber de orthographia ex veteribus grammaticis consarcinatus. 25r-48v
- Author
- Cassiodorus Senator
- Rubric
- (25r) Incipit Prefatio Cassiodori Senatoris super ortographiam
- Incipit
- (25r) Cum inter nos talia gererentur
- Explicit
- (25r) distincta sunt
- Rubric
- (25r) Explicit Prefatio
- Note
- (Keil, VII 142-210)
- Incipit
- (25r) Post commenta psalterii
- Explicit
- (27r) si modo liuor abest
- Rubric
- (27r) Cassiodori senatoris explicit Item Prefatio
- Note
- (Keil, 147)
- Incipit
- (27r) Ex agneo cornuto
- Explicit
- (27r) nihil hominus (!) est discendum
- Rubric
- (27r) Agnei Cornuti de enuntiatione uel ortographia ista revelata (!) sunt
- Incipit
- (27r) Animaduerti quosdam
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (48v) poenali Societate coniungi. hunc cassiodorus senatoris de ortographia librum ex duodecim auctorum opusculis defloratum
- Flavius Caper, De orthographia. 49r-53r
- Nasmith
- Liber Capri de orthographia. 49r-53r
- Author
- Flavius Caper
- Rubric
- (49r) Incipit liber Capri de ortographia
- Incipit
- (49r) Hec uia quo ducimus non ubi (!)
- Note
- (Keil, VII 92)
- Explicit
- (53r) a similitudine fallarum (stellarum)
- Note
- Keil, p. 107
- Flavius Caper, De uerbis dubiis. 53r-59v
- Author
- Flavius Caper
- Rubric
- (53r) Item Capri de verbis dubiis
- Incipit
- (53r) In singularibus uerbis
- Note
-
(Keil, VII 107)
Ends - Explicit
- (55r) pedagogus nutritor paruulorum
- Note
- (Keil, VII 112, note)
- Incipit
- (55r) Licet origo nominum unde ueniat a philosophis eam teneat rationem ut per denominationem homo ab humanitate
- Explicit
- (55r) quedam in hoc opere posuimus
- Incipit
- (55r) Aeros uir fortis et sapiens
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (59v) Indagatores a latores pressores. Uenator quasi uenebu
- Agroecius, De orthographia. 59v-64v
- Nasmith
- Oegrocii ars. 59v-64v
- Author
- Agroecius
- Rubric
-
(59v) Incipit ars oEgrocii
(59v) Incipit prefatio eiusdem ad Eucherium Episcopum - Incipit
- (59v) Domino eucherio in domino episcopo salutem agroecius libellum Capri de ortographia
- Note
-
(Keil, VII 113)
Ends - Explicit
- (64v) de turmentis dicimus et de precibus
- Note
-
(Keil, VII 125)
(65r) The last leaf is blank
- Alcuin, De orthographia. 1r-9r
- TJames
- vac.
- Stanley
- Lib. ab Al. 24
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/xs065nt0349
- MS 221
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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