Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 72
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- Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 072
- Biblissima authority file
- Date
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- 1175 - 1225
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 072: Gospel Lectionary
- Gospel Lectionary || Evangelia
- Description
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Summary: Although arranged according to the texts of the four Gospels, rather than arranging the specific readings according to the Sundays and feast days of the year, CCCC MS 72, was intended to serve as a Gospel Lectionary for the readings at Mass. It begins with a table of the Gospel readings for the church year, and in the margins are the names of the days on which the appropriate passages of text are to be read. The Gospel text has been compared with Bibles produced at Canterbury and Glunz classifies it as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. Although M. R. James thought that it might have been made at St Albans, it is now thought more likely that it was made at Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury. It has three very large and fine illuminated ornamental initials, and many smaller ones. A dating of the book to the closing years of the twelfth century, perhaps c. 1180, seems likely.
Contents :
1r-147r - Gospel Lectionary || Evangelia
Note: (1r) A Table of Gospels for the year. The use seems to be Roman
Note: (13r) The Four Gospels. The first leaf of Matthew is gone
Note: The margins are broad, and in them (besides the Ammonian sections in black) are the names of the feasts on which Gospels are to be read, in red and blue. Each section has a beautiful initial (without gold) blue or red, filled with very charming ornament in red, blue, yellow or green
Note: Prologue to Mark
incipit: (48r) (Marcus euangelista dei) et petri
Note: f. 49r-49v blank
Note: (50r) Text of Mark with magnificent initial: conventional foliage on gold, edged with green
Note: Prologue to Luke
incipit: (73v) (Lucas Syrus)
Note: 74v blank
Note: (75r) Text of Luke with magnificent initial (containing a dragon)
Note: On f. 92r in red and blue capitals, only slightly later than the other rubrics, In die Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli
Note: On margins of 92v, 93r are pencil sketches of initials and ornaments
Note: (116r) Prologue to John
Note: (117r) Text with admirable initial
Note: (147r) Ends
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