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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 23

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 023
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Date
  • 1000 - 1099
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 023: Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Prudentius. Orosius
    • Prudentius, Psychomachia
    • Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmen 10
    • Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmina 1-9, 11-14
    • Constantia, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes
    • Damasus, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes
    • Prudentius, Contra Symmachum (incomplete)
    • Orosius, Historia aduersus paganos
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  • Preferred form
    • Prudence (0348-0415?)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Prudentius
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    • PRUDENTIUS Aurelius
    • Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
    • Prudence (0348-0415?)
    • Aurelius Clementis Prudentius
    • AURELIUS PRUDENTUS CLEMENS
    • Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (0348-0415?)
    • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    • Aurelii Prudentii Clementis
    • Prudence, 0348-0415?
    • Aurelio Prudencio‏
    • Aurelius Prudentius Clemens‏ ‎0348-0415?
    • Clemens, Aurelius Prudentius,‏ ‎b. 348‏
    • Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius‏
    • Prudenci, 348?-ca. 405
    • Prudencio Clemente, Aurelio
    • Prudentius, b. 348
    • Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius fl.348-405
    • Author: Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius
    • Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 - c. 413 A.D.))
    • Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens, 348-c 405
    • Prudence (0348-0415)
    • Prudentius, 348-
    • Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius
    • Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-405)
    • Prudentius Christianus
    • Prudence (348-413)
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    • Constance (sainte, 03..-0354)
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    • Author
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    • Constantia
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    • Damase Ier (pape, 0305?-0384)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Damasus
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    • DAMASUS papa
    • DAMASUS I papa (s.)
    • DAMASUS I, papa (s.)
    • Damasus I (pape ; 0305?-0384)
    • Damasus papa
    • Damase
    • S. Damasus
    • DAMASUS I (s.), papa
    • Damase Ier pape 0305?-0384
    • Damasus I, Pope, 305-384
    • Damasus Papa, I. 305-384
    • Author: Damasus I, Papa
    • Pape Damase
    • Damase, pape
    • Damasus papa, 1
    • Damasus Papa, I. - ca. 305 - 384 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Paul Orose (0390?- 0418?)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Orosius
    Other form
    • OROSIUS (Paulus)
    • Paulus Orosius
    • Orose, Paul (0390?- 0418?)
    • Orosius, Paulus (0390?- 0418?)
    • Orose, Paul (0390?- 0418?)
    • Orose
    • Orose, Paul, 0390?-0418?
    • Orosi, Pau, n. 390?
    • Orosio, Paulo
    • Orosius, Paulus
    • Orosius, Paulus 5. Jh. n. Chr.
    • Author: Orosius, Paulus
    • Orosius, Paulus, c 380-c 418
    • Orosius, Paulus, 385?-420?
    • Paullus Orosius
    • Paul Orose (385-420)
    • Orosio, Paulo , n. 390?-m. 418?
    • Orósio, Paulo, 383-420 > , co-autor
    • Orósio, Paulo, 383-420
    • Orosius, Paulus - 385-420 - auteur
    • Orosius, Paulus - 385-420 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 23 consists of two volumes bound together. The first is a famous illustrated manuscript of works by Prudentius (fl. 384-410), most significantly his Psychomachia, a poem about spiritual warfare between personifications of the vices and virtues. Many line drawings in coloured ink illustrate events in the text. It was made in England probably in the late tenth century, and it shares an artist with Bodleian Library MS Junius 11, the Junius manuscript of Old English poetry. Art-historical evidence has tended to link the production of part one of CCCC MS 23 with Canterbury, but a presentation inscription gives the manuscript provenance at Malmesbury, and it has also been suggested that it could have been made there. In the eleventh century Old English captions were added to the pictures. The second volume is a copy of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos of 417-18, written by six scribes working at Dover in the second quarter of the twelfth century. One of these scribes is also found in CCCC MS 462. The two manuscripts were probably bound together by Parker.


    Contents :


    1v-40v - Prudentius, Psychomachia

    Note: Psychomachia Prudentii (without title)

    Note: On f. 1v a frame meant to contain two drawings: only the lower one has been executed; in the upper space are marks of erasure

    Note: (2r) Fine initial in black and red with dragon's heads and interlaced work

    Note: (2r) First line in large green capitals and small red ones

    incipit: (2r) Senex fidelis prima credendi uia [est]

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (40v) Aeternum solio diues sapientia regnet


    41r-60r - Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmen 10

    rubric: (41r) Incipit Prudentii Clementis cucyM (or αα) de sco Romano martire is DE Roman2 contra gentiles

    incipit: (41r) Romane Christi fortis adsertor dei

    Note: (41r) Title and first line in red capitals. The hand is different, rounder and better. It changes perhaps at f. 57r

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (60r) induatur uellere

    rubric: (60r) Finit Romanus Aurelii Prudentii clementis, viri consularis


    60r-104r - Prudentius, Peristephanon, carmina 1-9, 11-14

    rubric: (60r) Incipit liber per iste fan on (Peristephanon): Hymnus in honore sanctorum martiru(m) Emetrii et cheledonii cala gurritanorum

    Note: (60r) (red capitals)

    incipit: (60r) Scripta sunt celo duorum martirum uocabula

    Note: (62r) Passio Laurentii

    Note: (65r) The first hand resumes

    Note: (71v) Passio Eulaliae

    Note: (75v) Decem et octo martirum Cesaraugustanorum

    Note: (78v) Passio Vincentii

    Note: (88v) HymnusFructuosi

    Note: (91r) HymnusQuirini

    Note: (92v) De loco in quo martires passi sunt nunc babtistserium est callagurri

    Note: (93r) Passio Cassiani

    Note: (95r) PassioHippolyti

    Note: (99r) PassioPetri et Pauli

    Note: (100r) PassioCypriani

    Note: (102r) Passio Agnaetis

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (104r) Dignaris almo uel pede tangere


    104r-104r - Constantia, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes

    rubric: (104r) Ver(s)us Cons(t)antine Constantini filiae scripti in absida Basilicae quam condidit in honore sanctae Agnes

    incipit: (104r) Constantina deum uenerans


    104r-104r - Damasus, Epigram for the basilica of St Agnes

    rubric: (104r) Versus Damasi episcopi de eadem re (Ihm. 84)

    incipit: (104r) Fama refert sanctos


    104v-104v - Prudentius, Contra Symmachum (incomplete)

    rubric: (104v) Incipit liber primus contra simmachum

    incipit: (104v) Paulus praeco dei qui fera gentium

    Note: Ends imperfectly l. 29

    explicit: (104v) uulnere mordicus

    Note: Paper has been pasted over this page (now lifted)


    105r-159v - Orosius, Historia aduersus paganos

    rubric: (105r) Incipit Prefatio in Orosium

    incipit: (105r) Orosius presbiter Hispanus genere

    explicit: (105r) honorio imperium tenente

    rubric: (105r) Item Prefatiuncula in Orosium

    incipit: (105r) Orosius presbiter terraconensis

    explicit: (105r) stephani detulit ad occidentals plagas reliquias

    rubric: (105r) Incipit liber Sancti Orosii de Ormesta Mundi

    Note: (105r) (red and green capitals)

    incipit: (105r) Preceptis tuis parui

    Note: (105r) The initial P has a panelled stalk. The other initials are mostly in plain colours

    Note: The hand strongly resembles that of Christ Church, Canterbury

    Note: (111v) Liber II

    Note: (117r) Liber III

    Note: (120v) Liber IV

    Note: (121r) Hand changes to a smaller one

    Note: (128r) First hand resumes

    Note: (130r) Liber V

    Note: (136r) Another hand

    Note: (137v) Liber VI

    Note: (144r) First hand (?)

    Note: (146r) Liber VII

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (159v) iudicata si deleas

    rubric: (159v) Finit Orosii liber septimus

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