London. British Library, Burney MS 340

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Burney MS 340
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Origen of Alexandria, Homilies on Numbers 15-19
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Origène (0185?-0254?)
    Original form
    • Origen, c 185-c 254
    Other form
    • ORIGENES (Adamantius)
    • ORIGÈNE
    • Origène (0185?-0254?)
    • ORIGENES
    • Origenes (0185?-0254?)
    • ORIGINES
    • Origenes
    • ORIGENIS
    • Origenis presbiteri
    • Origenis
    • Origenes Adamantius
    • Origène
    • Origène 0185?-0254?
    • Origen
    • Orígenes
    • Orígenes, ca. 183-ca. 253
    • Origenes 185-254
    • Author: Origenes
    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Origène (0185?-0254?) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Orígenes, ca 185-ca 254
    • Orígenes, ca 185-ca 254 > , co-autor
    • Origenes - ca. 185 - 253/254 - auteur
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Description
  • This manuscript was written at a scriptorium in Northern France, most likely the Benedictine abbey of Corbie, in the 4th quarter of the 7th century. It was certainly in the abbey's library from the 12th century onward. In 1638 the manuscript was transferred to the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris and, at an unknown point in time, to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Laurent in Liège. It remained there until the abbey’s dissolution by French Revolutionary troops in 1794. The manuscript originally contained both a collection of homilies on the Book of Numbers by the Greek theologian Origen of Alexandria (b. 184/185, d. 253/254) and De Reparatione Lapsi (On the Reparation of the Fallen) by the Church Father John Chrysostom (d. 407). In the 1790s, however, the two works were separated. The part with Origen’s homilies (ff. 1-60) entered the collection of the classical scholar Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817) and was subsequently acquired by the British Museum. The part with John Chrysostom's work (ff. 61-104) was acquired by Peter Dubrovsky (b. 1754, d. 1816) and is now in Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS. Lat. F v I (the off-set of the former subsequent text is still visible on f. [61] verso). Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Origen of Alexandria, Homilies on Numbers 15-19, beginning ‘INCIPIT TRACTATUS ORIGENIS DE BALAHAM ET BALAC’.Decoration:Rustic display capitals in green and pink (ff. 1r, 11r), or green and black (ff. 27v, 51v, 60v) for the title, explicit, and certain beginnings of homilies. Large capitals in green, black and pink (f. 4r (2x), 4v, 9v, 11r), green and red (f. 4v) or green and black (ff. 5v, 9r, 12r, 12v, 17r, 17v, 27v, 34v, 51v), some with zoomorphic figures (a bird (f. 4r) or a fish (12r, 12v)). Small initials in brown ink. Running heads in blue ink on ff. 30v-31r.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Corbie Abbey (France)
    Original form
    • Corbie, France
    Other form
    • France (Corbie)
    • France (Corbie ?)
    • Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Corbie
    • Abbaye de Corbie
    • France (Saint-Pierre de Corbie)
    • France (Corbie).
    • Corbie
    • Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Corbie (?)
    • Saint-Pierre de Corbie (?)
    • France (abbaye de Corbie)
    • Corbie (Somme)
    • France (Saint-Pierre-de-Corbie)
    • France (Saint-Pierre de Corbie ?)
    • Corbie (?)
    • Abbey of Corbie
    • Abadia de Corbie
    • Abadía de Corbie
    • Abtei Corbie
    • France (Abbey of Corbie?)
    • France (Abbaye de Corbie ?)
    • França (Abadia de Corbie?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Corbie?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Corbie?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Corbie?)
    • Abdij van Corbie
    • Klooster Corbie OSB (?)
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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