London. British Library, Add MS 29972

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  • Latin
Title
  • St Augustine, Homilies
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    Original form
    • Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    Other form
    • AUGUSTINUS (S.)
    • Ange Vergèce
    • Nicolas Mourmouris
    • Héphestion
    • Homère
    • Jean Dokeianos
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTIN, Saint
    • Augustinus (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINI
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint)
    • Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin d'Hippone
    • Augustin (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • S. Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS ep. (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS
    • Augustin, S.
    • Augustin (sain ; 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus (s.)
    • S. Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustinus Hiponnensis
    • Augustin
    • Sancti Augustini
    • Sanctus Augustinus
    • S. Augustinus (?)
    • S. AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus episcopus
    • Augustini
    • Sancti Augustini
    • S. Augustin
    • [Augustinus]
    • [AUGUSTINUS]
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustin (Saint)
    • Augustin saint 0354-0430
    • Agustí, sant, bisbe d'Hipona, 354-430
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, 354-430
    • Augustinus (heilige)
    • Author: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Translator: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Augustine
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint). Auteur des citations ou des fragments textuels
    • Augustine (attrib.)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430), author
    • Pseudo Augustine
    • Pseudo Augustine (Quodvultdeus)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Patrick of Dublin)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Jeronimus)
    • St Augustine
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430 (role)aut
    • Augustin (saint)
    • Augustinus, Aurelius
    • S. Augustin
    • Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, author,
    • Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Docteur de l'Eglise
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Evêque
    • Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430)
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , co-autor
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , ant. bibliog.
    • Augustin (05.. ?-0604 ? ; saint)
    • Augustinus - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Saint Augustin d'Hippone
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  • Preferred form
    • Moët (17..-18..)
    Original form
    • Moët, Unspecified, of Add MS 29972
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Description
  • This manuscript contains a fragmentary collection of sermons by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule cursive that is associated with the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, one of the oldest monasteries in Burgundy, founded by the Irish missionary Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615). Two other fragments of the original manuscript, containing sermons by Caesarius of Arles (b. 468/70, d. 542) and Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403), have been identified in Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale Salis, MS 140 I (1 leaf; destroyed in 1944) and New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS 481, Box 1 No. 2 (1 leaf). Another early 8th-century manuscript written in Luxeuil miniscule (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 17) may be the continuation of this collection of sermons. Contents: ff. 26r-28v: St Augustine, De Passione Sancti Stephani (On the Martyrdom of St Stephen). ff. 28v-30v: St Augustine, De Die Epiphania (On the Day of the Epiphany). ff. 30v-31r: St Augustine, De Die Paschali (On the Day of Easter). ff. 31r-32v: St Augustine, De Die Quadragesima Ascensionis (On the Forty Days before the Ascension). ff. 32v-35v: St Augustine, De kalendis Januarii (On the Kalends of January). ff. 35v-36r: St Augustine, Excarpsum de libro Salomonis (Selection from the Book of Wisdom). ff. 36r-38v: St Augustine, Epistula humiliarum (Letter on Humility), imperfect. [Damage to the script throughout the manuscript]. The manuscript contains a number of 19th-century additions in French:ff. 1r and 2r: Title pages (‘Manuscrit Merovingien’). ff. 3r-12v: An introduction to the manuscript.ff. 13r-25v: A transcription of St Augustine’s homilies. ff. 39r-48r: Variant readings from a 17th-century printed version. ff. 49r-65r: A translation of St Augustine’s homilies. ff. 66r-71v: A palaeographical study. ff. 72r-77v: Notes on papyrus, parchment, and paper. ff. 78r-81r: Appendices, including facsimiles of contemporary manuscripts and transcriptions. ff. 82r-82v: A table of contents.[ff. 1v, 2v, [25a] recto, [25a] verso, 65v, [65a] recto, [65a] verso, and 76v are empty].Decoration:1 large decorated capital with motifs in red and brown ink on f. 35v. Large brown initials. Large display capitals in red (some oxidized) and brown ink. A pen-drawing in brown ink in the lower margin of f. 38v: two crosses, birds and a monstrance (?).
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