Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 197B
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- MS 197B
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- 0700 - 0799
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- Latin
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 197B: The Northumbrian Gospels
- The Northumbrian Gospels
- Description
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Summary: This manuscript constitutes the surviving portion of the 'Cotton-Corpus' Gospels; the larger part, now London, BL MS Cotton Otho C. V, was badly damaged in the Cottonian fire of 1731 and only burnt fragments remain. A bifolium of canon tables, probably also from this manuscript, survives as London, BL MS Royal 7. C. XII, ff. 2-3. The original manuscript was a lavish Insular Gospel Book with elaborate decoration; in the Corpus part the eagle symbol of St John the evangelist still survives, and elaborate decorative initials incorporating a range of interlace and other ornament. It belongs in a group with the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Both Parker and Cotton recorded on their respective parts of the original book that it was believed to have been owned by St Augustine, first archbishop of Canterbury, who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England in 597. The date of the manuscript rules this out: it seems to be from late seventh- or early eighth-century Northumbria. However it is possible that this tradition arose in the Middle Ages, as one of the volumes which Thomas Elmham (d. c. 1427) recorded among those revered as sent from Gregory to Augustine was probably an early Insular Gospel-book of this type. The same provenance was attributed anachronistically to other early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at St Augustine's, Canterbury.
Contents :
245-316 - The Northumbrian Gospels
Note: On p. 245 at top (xvi): 'fragmentum quatuor euangeliorum. Hic liber olim missus a gregorio pp. ad augustinum archiepȝ: sed nuper sic mutilatus'
decoration: 245: A full page drawing. 'Imago aquilae'. Facsimile in Goodwin (pl. ix)
Note: p. 246 blank
decoration: 247: Frontispiece to John in finest Celtic style. Facsimile in Goodwin (pl. x)
layout: Text 19 lines to a page. The edges are cropped
handNote: The fragments of John and Luke are in two different hands, the latter being smaller: both are magnificently written. Ammonian sections and Eusebian canons in the margin in a small and very Celtic hand
Note: 248: Text of John i. 1 Et uerbum erat - 12 reciperunt
research: Goodwin (pl. xi)
Note: 249: John i. 45 Erat autem - ii. 10 usque
Note: 251: John iii. 19 dicium - 36 aeternam
Note: 253: John v. 33 ad iohannem - vi. 4 festus
Note: 253: John vi. 68 - vii. 16 misit me
Note: 257: John viii. 52 habes abraham - x. 29 omnibus est et
Note: 265: Lucas iv. 6 in momento - v. 31 ad illos non
Note: 273: Lucas vi. 27 uestros benefacite - vii. 44 non dedisti
Note: 281: Lucas viii. 25 quia et uentis - x. 4 neque peram
Note: 293: Lucas xi. 27 de turba dixit - xiii. 11 erat inclinata
Note: 305: Lucas xv. 22 et calciamenta - xvi. 24 digiti sui
Note: 309: Lucas xix. 28 Et hiis dictis - 45 eicere uenden
Note: 311: Lucas xx. 33 si quidem .uii - xxi. 6 non destruatur
Note: 313: Lucas xxii. 25 dominantur - 42 calicem istum a me
Note: 315: Lucas xxiii. 8 herodis autem - 26 uenientem de uilla
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