Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio ; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis ; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum ; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas ; Homiliae Evangelii ; In Tobiam ; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Agent
Preferred form
Venance Fortunat (saint, 0530-0601)
Original form
Venantius Fortunatus, c 535-600, Bishop of Poitiers
Other form
Venantius Fortunatus (saint ; 0530-0601)
FORTUNATUS
FORTUNATUS (s. Venantius), ep. Pictavensis
Venance Fortunat (0530-0601 ; saint)
Fortunatus
Venance Fortunat (saint ; 0530-0601)
Venantius Fortunatus
Fortunati
VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS
FORTUNATUS (Venantius), ep. Pictavensis
Fortunato
Venantius Fortunatus (saint, 0530-0601)
Venantius Fortunatus (s.)
Venance Fortunat saint 0530-0601
Fortunato, Venancio Honorio Clemenciano
Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, ca. 540-ca. 600
Venanci Fortunat, sant, ca. 530-ca. 600
Venantius Fortunatus 530-600
Author: Venantius, Fortunatus
Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600
This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of
biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b.
672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St
Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a
poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript was owned by and
perhaps also produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St
Benedict at Ramsey (Cambridgeshire) since it contains a
15th-century ownership inscription from the abbey. Two of the
manuscript’s flyleaves contain an unidentified theological work
that, according to an inscription, is a lecture by Henry of Saltrey
(fl. c. 1184) on the ‘sentencias’, perhaps the Sententiae
(Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). Ramsey abbey's
access to the lecture may be explained by the monastery's close
proximity to the Cistercian abbey at Sawtrey. Contents:f. 1v: A
table of contents. ff. 2r-98r: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum
Expositio (Commentary on the Song Of Songs): ff. 2r-8r: Book I
(‘contra iulianum’); ff. 8r-9r: A table of contents for Books
II-VII; f. 9r: A prologue for Books II-VII; ff. 9r-98r: Books
II-VII. ff. 98r-100v: A sermon on Luke 11:33. ff. 100v-103v:
Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis . ff. 103v-104v: A
sermon on Luke 4:14. ff. 105r-152v: Bede, Expositio Actuum
Apostolorum (Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles): ff.
105r-106v: A prologue; ff. 106v-147v: Commentary; ff. 148r-152v: A
description of places ('Descriptio situs terrea beato beda
Provintiarum civitatum insularum huic libro congru[a]endum'). ff.
152v-222r: Bede, Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas (Commentary on
the Seven Catholic Epistles). ff. 223r-251r: Bede, Homiliae
Evangelii (Homilies on the Gospels), I-XI. ff. 252r-258r: Bede, In
Tobias (Commentary on the Book of Tobit). ff. [iii] recto-[iii]
verso; [260] recto-[260] verso: An unidentified theological text
(in 2 columns), written in the 13th century (?); perhaps a
commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sententiae by Henry of Saltrey; in
the lower margin of f. [260r] is a later, partially legible
inscription: ‘lectura super sentencias h[en]r[i] de sautre’.
ff. [259] recto-[259] verso: A letter by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
(b.1602, d. 1650). [ff. 1r, 222v, [222a] recto, [222a] verso, 251v,
[251a] recto, [251a] verso, and 258v are empty]. Decoration:Large
initials in red, green or purple, decorated with arabesque motifs
in the same and/or alternate colour and occasionally in blue (ff.
2r (2x), 9r, 9v, 10v, 38v, 73v, 90r, 105r, 106v, 148r, 153r, 171v,
186r, 196r, 216r, 217r, 218r, 223r, 226r, 226v, 237r, 240v, 243r,
246v, 252r). 1 large initial in red and green, decorated with
foliate motifs in both colours (f. 57r). Smaller initials in red or
green, or black ink. Letters highlighted in red and/or green.
Display capitals in green, red, blue or purple. Rubrics in red or
green, one decorated with green dots (f. 42r). Running headers and
book numbers in brown or red ink. Underlining in red. Line-fillers
in red and/or green.
