A Patristic florilegium , imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei , prayers and chants, imperfect.
Description
This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were
bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the
2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff.
1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not
been identified. It was produced in the North East of France and
written in a Merovingian cursive minuscule (ff. 1r-8r) and uncials
capitals (ff. 8v-78v). The second part, dating to the 2nd or 3rd
quarter of the 8th century, contains a Life of St Fursey (ff.
79r-98v) to which extracts from prayers and chants (without musical
notation) have been added in a similar hand (ff. 98v-99r). This
part was probably written in the North of France (? Seine-et-Marne)
in a Merovingian cursive minuscule and with a number of Insular
abbreviations and letter forms. St Fursey (b. c. 590, d. c. 649)
was a monk-missionary from Ireland. After gaining the patronage of
Sigebert, king of East Anglia, he travelled to northern France in
the 640s, where he received protection from Erchinoald, Clovis II's
mayor of the palace of Neustria (the western part of the kingdom of
the Franks) and Burgundy. Erchinoald encouraged Fursey to establish
the Benedictine monastery of Lagny-sur-Marne in Seine-et-Marne.
Contents: ff. 1r-78v: A Patristic florilegium including extracts
from St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430),
the Pseudo-Isidore, De ortu et obitu patriarchum (The Birth and
Death of Patriarchs) (ff. 75r-v) and the prologue to the Epistle to
Romans (ff. 76r-78v), imperfect at the beginning: 'Quibus modis
conpungimur ad Christum post facinora'. ff. 79r-98v: Vita Sancti
Fursei (Life of St Fursey), beginning: 'Incipit transitus beati
Fursei fuit. Fuit vir viae venerabilis furseus nomine nobilis
quidem genere'. ff. 98v-99r: Prayers and chants,
imperfect.Decoration:Decorated initial in pen (f. 76r). Titles and
rubrics in display capitals in silver. Large initials, some
decorated, a few in silver or green (f. 75r).Title and initial in
silver (f. 79r, partly effaced). Initials in silver (many effaced).
Place
Preferred form
France, Northern
Original form
Northern France
Other form
Nord de la France
Nord de la France (?) (Fichier Avril)
Nord de la France (?)
France (Nord).
France (Nord)
France (Nord) (?)
France (nord)
France (Nord : voir Faral, Bastin, Œuvres complètes de Rutebeuf, p. 26-27).
France (Nord de la France ?)
Nordfrankreich
França (nord)
Francia (norte)
Frankrijk (noorden)
Laon
France (nord : Laon ?)
França (nord: Laon?)
Nordfrankreich (Laon?)
Northern France (Laon?)
Francia (norte: Laon?)
Northern France (Paris?)
France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
