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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 192

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  • MS 192
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  • 952
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  • Latin
  • Celtic
  • Greek
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 192: Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis
  • Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis || Collectio Amalarii viri doctissimi de ordine Romanae ecclesiae qui vocatur liber officialis
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    • Amalaire de Metz (0775?-0850?)
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    • Author
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    • Amalarius of Metz
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    • Amalarius Metensis
    • Amalaire de Metz (0775?-0850?)
    • Amalarius
    • AMALARIUS
    • Amalaire de Metz 0775?-0850?
    • Amalarius, Metensis
    • Amalari de Metz, m. 850
    • Amalario de Metz, m. 850
    • Amalarius, Archbishop of Lyon,‏ ca. 775-ca. 850
    • Author: Amalarius, Metensis
    • Amalarius<Metensis>
    • Amalaire de Metz (775-850), bénédictin, écolâtre à la cour d'Aix-la-Chapelle, archevêque de Trèves.
    • Amalarius (ca775-ca850)
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Description

  • Summary: This manuscript contains a copy of the Liber officialis of Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850), written in Brittany, at the monastery of Landévennec, in the year 952. We can identify the year the manuscript was written on account of a scribal colophon, in fact the work of two scribes, on f. 97v, which contains detailed chronological information from a paschal table. The colophon also tells us that 'Amadeus, deacon and monk, ordered this little book to be written'. The manuscript includes many interlinear glosses, some of them in Breton, which were published by Whitley Stokes. At some point before the thirteenth century the manuscript arrived in England, where it has a provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.


    Contents :


    1r-99r - Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis || Collectio Amalarii viri doctissimi de ordine Romanae ecclesiae qui vocatur liber officialis

    Note: (1r) Title in capitals

    rubric: (1r) Collectio amalarii uiri doctissimi de ordine Romane aeclesiae. qui vocatur liber officialis

    Note: (P. L. CV)

    Note: (1r) A small letter a (xiv ?) at upper R. corner

    Note: (1r) Capitula of two books

    rubric: (2v) Expliciunt capitula libri .ii

    rubric: (2v) Incipit collectio ... officialis

    Note: At top of f. 3r (xiv)

    Note: (3r) Amalarius de ordine ecc ...

    Note: (3r) (corner of leaf torn off)

    Note: The preliminary letter to Louis the Pious is absent

    incipit: (3r) Postquam scripsi libellum qui a mea paruitate uocatur de eclesiastico officio

    Note: (Praefatio altera, belonging to the revised form of the work, P. L. CV 987)

    Note: (3r) The hand is a rough and unskilled Carolingian minuscule

    Note: There are fairly numerous interlinear glosses, among which Mr Bradshaw (Collected Papers, p. 472) detected several in Breton. These were printed by Dr Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique, 1879-80, p. 338

    Note: Initials are rough, filled with patches of dull red and yellow

    Note: The first obvious change of hand is on f. 13v

    Note: A third hand, much larger and rounder, appears on ff. 37r-38v, thus

    Note: (37r) Liber I, Capitulum xxxviii. De observatione dierum etc.

    Note: ends

    explicit: (37r) et sunt omnes dies tamquam dominica

    Note: Then a heading not in the capitula

    rubric: (37r) Paulisper de ministratoribus persecutionis Christi quid actum sit uideamus

    incipit: (37r) Primus herodes sub quo passi sunt infantes

    Note: On the deaths of the Herods and Pilate and destruction of Jerusalem, mostly from Josephus

    explicit: (38v) et qui in sollempnitate pasche dominum crucifixerunt in eadem sollempnitate ab hostibus perirent

    rubric: (38v) Hieronimus in libro ebraicorum nominum

    incipit: (38v) Iscarioth memoriale domini

    explicit: (38v) et de uico eiusdem tribus ischarioth dominum uendidit

    Note: (39r) Liber II, i, de xii lectionibus

    Note: (39r) The second hand resumes, and, I think, continues to the end

    Note: At R. upper corner of 39r is xb (? for Christe benedic)

    Note: A curiously indented piece has been cut out of the bottom of 39r-39v

    Note: f. 47r-47v is mutilated

    Note: In the margins, throughout, a large L is frequently written

    Note: Cap. lxi or lxii De sexta feria ends

    explicit: (97r) quia in ea peracta est

    Note: (Liber IV capitulum xvi in P. L. CV)

    Note: (97r) ΦΙΝΙΘ DΗΩ ΓΡΛΘΙΛΣ ΛΜΗΝ

    Note: On f. 97v is the inscription given by Nasmith (corrected by me)

    Note: (97v) Anno a natiuitate dni nri ihu xpi dcccclii decima indictione epactis x(x)ii concurrens iiiitus cum bisexto; ciclo lunari xixo luna xiiiia pasche ID. aprilis. dies pasche. xiiiio kl. MAI; luna ipsius diei xviiiia; iussit amadeus diaconus atque habitu monachus hunc libellum scribere pro sua anima ad utilitatem fratrum: et quicunque legerit uel scrutatus fuerit aut scripserit eum precor ut dicat, anima eius requiescat in pace; Sed et quicunque eum rapuerit uel per uim siue per latrocinium abstulerit a fratribus sancti uuingualoei in cuius honore est scriptus anathema sit amaranatha in aduentu dni, omnibus fratribus haec atestantibus

    Note: (97v) The date is dccccLii but the L is nearly gone

    Note: After this is a single leaf (f. 99r) in double columns of 35 lines written apparently on one side only. The script is of much the same character as that of the volume, but smaller

    Note: At top in a large hand xii-xiii is

    rubric: (99r) Amalarius de ordine ecclesiastici officii

    Note: which seems characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury

    Note: The text begins

    incipit: (99r) In caena domini reseruetur de ipso corpore domini unde in crastinum

    Note: and ends (De sabbato sancto)

    explicit: (99r) Statim sequitur antiphona ad magnificat et oratio n. Et finita sunt ipsa die

    Note: A facsimile of f. 49r and of the colophon is given in the New Palaeographical Society's publication for 1907 (pl. 109)

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