Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 270
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- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 270
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- Date
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- 1000 - 1099
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 270: Missal of St Augustine's, Canterbury
- Missal of St Augustine's, Canterbury
- Description
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Summary: This Missal is written in the beautiful round script particularly associated with St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in the second half of the eleventh century. We know that this manuscript was written after 1091 because it contains a mass for the translation of St Augustine in this year. As such it shows the typical English script of the eleventh century being written well after the Norman Conquest, in contrast to the spiky script written at nearby Christ Church at this time. T. A. M. Bishop identified the work of some of CCCC MS 270's scribes in other manuscripts from St Augustine's, Canterbury. Arguments on textual grounds that the manuscript must have been written before 1100 are unconvincing in themselves, but this style of script would not be expected to have lasted very long into the twelfth century. The manuscript has flyleaves written in late eleventh- or twelfth-century script, containing text from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica. It is possible that these leaves were not taken from a dismantled copy of Bede's work, but were rather leaves rejected during the production of a manuscript, and if so then they may have been used in the binding of MS 270 at an early date.
Contents :
2r-196v - Missal of St Augustine's, Canterbury
Note: ff. 174r-181v and 182r are in a large bold pointed hand
Note: ff. 182v-196v in a tall narrow round hand
Note: On ff. 12r, 16r, 46r, 48v, 51v, 54r, 71v, 92v, 98r, 101v are fine polychrome decorative initials in many of which purple is used
Note: The text of the volume was printed by Mr Martin Rule (Cambridge, 1896) with two pages in facsimile, and a most elaborate and ingenious Introduction, in which Mr Rule contends that this Missal is copied from one given by Gregory to Augustine. Mr Rule has presented to the College a manuscript volume written by himself entitled A Study of MS. C.C.C.C. 270, which is preserved in the manuscript class
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