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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 153

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 153
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Date
  • 0800 - 0899
Language
  • Latin
  • Welsh
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153: The Corpus Martianus Capella
  • Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
  • Glossary on Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
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Description

  • Summary: This is a late ninth- or early tenth-century copy of Martianus Capella (fourth/fifth century), 'De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii'. The manuscript was produced in Wales and is extensively glossed in Latin and Old Welsh. The text is in a variety of hands, including an attractive Caroline minuscule–an early example of the use of this script in an Insular context–which attests to contacts between Francia and Wales in the ninth and/or early tenth century. The manuscript was in England (perhaps St Augustine’s, Canterbury) by the 930s, when the text was corrected in places and the lacuna in Book III filled (ff. 19-28). A few decades later, 'glossae collectae' on 'De nuptiis' were added to the end of the manuscript (ff. 69-86). [E. Boyle]


    Contents :


    1r-67r - Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

    Note: (1r) The title of the work, which was at top of col. 1, f. 1r in red, has almost totally disappeared

    Note: Text begins

    incipit: (1r) Tu quem psallentem

    Note: (1r) The initial, in black, is of good bold design; others occur at the beginnings of subsequent books

    Note: (7r) Liber II

    Note: (14r) Liber III

    Note: (28v) Liber IV rubric

    Note: (29r) Liber IV text

    Note: A diagram on f. 35r (which recurs on f. 79r) is inserted: the legend is written in a sloping minuscule of cent. x (?), not of Celtic type.

    Note: On f. 37r is a sketch (by an Anglo-Saxon hand) of a man brandishing a pastoral staff.

    Note: On f. 39v is an Anglo-Saxon sketch of a woman's head.

    Note: (37r) Liber V

    Note: (45v) Liber VI

    Note: (52v) Liber VII

    Note: (57v) Liber VIII

    Note: (61v) Liber IX

    explicit: (67r) secutae nugis nate ignosce lectitans

    rubric: (67r) Explicit de musica liber nonus

    Note: Added

    Note: (67r) Sic felix falsus finiuit falsa capella Corpore qui meruit miseram nunc ducere uitam

    Note: (67v) geometrical figures with names beginning with Planus angulus and ending with Octedros


    70r-85v - Glossary on Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

    Note: (70r) Gloss on Martianus Capella

    incipit: (70r) Iste martianus genere kartaginensis fuit studens primo philosophie

    Note: It is a collection, for the most part, of glosses on single words

    explicit: (85v) Bombinatorem sonatorem. Iugariorum a prouincia iugaria. Marcidam paruam

    rubric: (85v) Explicit de Martiano

    rubric: (85v) Incipit collectae glosae

    incipit: (85v) Subigo polis semus sermo est significat enim rego ut ipse ratem conto subigit

    explicit: (86v) Ibidem iterum et similiter ibidem ex eodem loco .i. indidem i. ipsum. Viritim per singulos uiros

    Note: The same glosses occur in MS 330

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