Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 57

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  • 0900 - 1099
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 057: Abingdon Benedictine Collection with Martyrology
    • Regula Sancti Benedicti || Regula S. Benedicti
    • Ambrosius Autpertus (pseudo-Fulgentius), Admonition
    • Memoriale qualiter, part 1
    • Memoriale qualiter, part 2
    • De festiuitatibus anni (= canon 36 of the Council of Mainz, 813)
    • Collectio capitularis of (probably) 818 x 819
    • Usuard, Martyrologium, with Abingdon additions || Martyrologium
    • Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Diadema monachorum (incomplete) || Smaragdidiadema monachorum
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  • Preferred form
    • Ambroise Autpert (730?-784)
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    • Author
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    • Ambrosius Autpertus (pseudo-Fulgentius)
    Other form
    • Ambrosius Autpertus
    • AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS (s.)
    • Ambrosius Autpertus (730?-784)
    • Ambroise Autpert (730?-784)
    • Ambroise, Le Bienheureux, dit Autpert, -0784
    • Ambrosius Autpertus -784
    • Autpertus, Ambrosius, d. 784
    • Autpertus, Ambrosius, m. 784
    • Author: Ambrosius, Autpertus
    • Ambrose Autpert, c 730-784, Abbot of San Vicenzo al Volturno
    • Ambrosius, Autpertus, -784
    • Ambrosius <Autpertus> (????-784)
    • B. Augustinus
    • Ambrosius Autpertus O.S.B, m. 784
    • Ambroise Autpert (vers 730 - 784)
    • Ambrosius
    • Ambrosius Autpertus, O.S.B., ?-784 > , co-autor
    • Ambrosius Autpertus - gest. 784 - auteur
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    • Usuard (08..-0877)
    Role
    • Author
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    • Usuard
    Other form
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis (08..-0877)
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis
    • Usuardus
    • Usuard, moine de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 08..-0877
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis monachus
    • Usuard, d. 876 or 7
    • Usuard, m. 876 o 7
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis fl.gest. ca. 875
    • Author: Usuardus, Sangermanensis
    • Usuard, d c 877, Monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
    • Usuard (moine de Saint-Germain-des-Prés ; ....-0877)
    • Usuard, -876 or 877
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis - ovl. c. 875/7 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
    Other form
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus
    • SMARAGDUS
    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis
    • SMARAGDUS, O.S.B.
    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel 0750?-0825?
    • Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, fl. 809-819
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis -830
    • Smaragdus van Sint-Mihiel
    • Author: Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis
    • Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, c 750-c 825, Abbot of St Mihiel-sur-Meuse
    • Smaragdus, abbas sancti Michaelis, active 809-819
    • Smaragdus, 760-840
    • Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
    • Smaragde de saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis, 750-830
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis Virdunensis
    • Smaragdus, O.S.B., ?-829 > , co-autor
    • Smaragdus, ?-829, O.S.B.
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Description
  • Summary: CCCC MS 57 is a witness to the intellectual interests of the Benedictine Reform movement in tenth-century England. It contains a collection of Benedictine texts, including the Rule, and a version of Usuard's Martyrologium with Abingdon additions. It was written in Square minuscule at the end of the tenth century or the start of the eleventh either at Canterbury, since its texts are related to Canterbury manuscripts of similar material, or at Abingdon, where it has certain early provenance. The additions to the Martyrology provide a large number of obits of people connected with the monastery of Abingdon; unfortunately they have been badly damaged by a later binder's trimming. In the eleventh century some damage to the manuscript was repaired by a scribe writing an imitiation of the original Square minuscule script.


    Contents :


    2r-32v - Regula Sancti Benedicti || Regula S. Benedicti

    incipit: (2r) Obsculta o fili precepta magistri

    Note: (2r) (green initial, red capitals)

    Note: (2r) A line of writing at the top is mostly cut off

    Note: Many words are glossed, in two hands of cent. xi?

    Note: The first Anglo-Saxon gloss occurs on f. 3r: there are very few of them. They have been printed by Napier, Old English Glosses, p. 231

    Note: Prol. ends

    explicit: (3v) mereamur esse consortes

    rubric: (3v) Incipiunt capitula Regulae (lxxiii)

    rubric: (4v) Explicit capitulatio

    rubric: (4v) De generibus monachorum vel uita et conversatione eorum qui volunt caelestia scandere regna

    Note: (4v) (red capitals)

    incipit: (5r) Quatuor genera esse monachorum

    Note: (5r) (large red capitals)

    Note: f. 8r-8v is supplied in a very fine English hand of cent. xi

    Note: Also ff. 19r-19v, 22r-22v

    Note: Ends f. 32v

    explicit: (32v) deo protegente peruenies. Facientibus haec regna patebunt aeterna

    rubric: (32v) Finit Regula Beati Benedicti


    32v-32v - Ambrosius Autpertus (pseudo-Fulgentius), Admonition

    incipit: (32v) Dicebat uero sanctus Fulgentius iuxta regulam patrum uiuere semper stude etc.

    explicit: (32v) perducunt ad celi palatia


    33r-34v - Memoriale qualiter, part 1

    rubric: (33r) Memoriale qualiter in monasterio conversari debemus

    incipit: (33r) Nocturnis horis cum ad opus diuinum de lectulo surrexerit frater

    Note: (P. L. LXVI 927)

    explicit: (34v) dicant. Misereatur noster omnipotens deus. Amen

    Note: By Benedict of Aniane (see Miss Bateson, English Historical Review 1894, p. 693)


    34v-37v - Memoriale qualiter, part 2

    rubric: (34v) Incipit epitoma Lothwici Imperatoris super Regulam beati Benedicti

    Note: (Miss Bateson, English Historical Review 1894, pp. 694-695)

    incipit: (34v) A kalendis autem Octobris usque in pascha hora nona

    Note: Sketch of a beast at top of f. 37r: of an initial on f. 38r


    37v-37v - De festiuitatibus anni (= canon 36 of the Council of Mainz, 813)

    rubric: (37v) De festivitatibus anni

    explicit: (37v) in una quaque parrochia sancta corpora requiescunt


    37v-40v - Collectio capitularis of (probably) 818 x 819

    rubric: (37v) Item adbreviatio eius qui supra

    incipit: (37v) Anno dominice incarnationis DCCC.XVII. imperii uero gloriosissimi principis lodouuici IIIIto vi idus iulii etc.

    Note: Ends

    incipit: (40v) Ut uolatilia etc.

    explicit: (40v) in ipsorum maneat arbitrio


    41r-94v - Usuard, Martyrologium, with Abingdon additions || Martyrologium

    rubric: (41r) Kalendae Mensis Ianuarii

    Note: (red capitals)

    rubric: (41r) Circumcisio domini nostri Iesu Christi

    Note: (black capitals)

    incipit: (41r) Rome natale Sancti almachii etc.

    Note: There are many additions to the text, most of which have been mutilated by the binder's plough. I think it will be useful if I note them in a slightly abbreviated form, since I cannot discover that they have been printed

    rubric: (40r) III Non. Ianuarii

    Note: (41v) (Obi)tus fratris nostri ƿufhelmi / (mona)chi et diaconi

    rubric: (41v) II Non. Ian.

    Note: (41v) (Obitu)s fratris nostri Alfgari / (d)iaconi nostre congregationis

    rubric: (42r) VII Id. Ian.

    Note: (42r) Obitus fratris nostri ƿulfheahi monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (42r) IIII Id. Ian.

    Note: (42r) Eodem die translatio beati / Iudoci sacerdotis egregii

    rubric: (42v) III Id. Ian.

    Note: (42v) (Obitus) fratris nostri kynrici / (mona)chi ac sacerdotis (nostre) congregationis

    rubric: (42v) II Id. Ian.

    Note: (42v) (Ob.) fratris nostri briht / ... monachi ac diaconi nostre congregationis

    rubric: (43r) XVII Kal. Feb.

    Note: (43r) Ob. eadƿini / ...

    rubric: (43v) XIII Kal. Feb.

    Note: (43v) fratris nostri brihtmæri / ... sacerdotis

    rubric: (44r) XI Kal. Feb.

    Note: (44r) Obitus fratris nostri eust / ... monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (44r) X Kal. Feb.

    Note: (44r) Obitus fratris nostri b ... / helmi monachi ac sacerdotis / . et depositio æ / militis. et depositio o ... / abb.

    rubric: (44v) VIII Kal. Feb.

    Note: (44v) fratris nostri brihtnoði (mo)nachi

    rubric: (44v) VI Kal. Feb.

    Note: (44v) fratris nostri Alfƿoldi / sacerdotis et deposit / ... thi (echi). monachi ac sacerdotis / ... fratris nostri brihtgeti / ... sacerdotis

    rubric: (45r) IIII Kal. Feb.

    Note: (45r) Obitus fratris nostri ky ... / monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (45r) III Kal. Feb.

    Note: (45r) Depositio aeþ... / episcopi

    rubric: (45v) Kalendae Februarii Mensis

    Note: (45v) fratris nostri eadƿig monachi nostre congregationis

    Note: (45v) (f.) nostri aeþelƿardi monachi ac diaconi (n.) congregationis

    rubric: (45v) III Non. Feb.

    Note: (45v) fratris nostri Leonis sacerdotis nostre congregationis

    rubric: (46r) VI Id. Feb.

    Note: (46r) Obitus fratris nostri (obliterated) (... monachi ac sacerdotis ... congregationis)

    rubric: (46v) III Id. Feb.

    Note: (46v) fratris nostri ƿynsini

    Note: (46v) Deposicio baldgari sacerdotis

    rubric: (46v) II Id. Feb.

    Note: (46v) ... lfstani ep.

    Note: (46v) (Deposicio) æþelgari presulis

    rubric: (47r) XVI Kal. Martii

    Note: (47r) Obitus ƿulfmæri monachi nostre congregationis

    rubric: (47v) XIII Kal. Mar.

    Note: (47v) fratris nostri æþel ... sacerdotis nostre congregationis

    rubric: (47v) XII Kal. Mar.

    Note: (47v) fratris nostri ælfrici sacerdotis nostre congregationis

    rubric: (48r) VIII Kal. Mar.

    Note: (48r) Hic obiit fratris nostri s ... diaconis nostre congregationis

    rubric: (48v) V Kal. Mar.

    Note: (48v) ... us æþelƿini abb.

    rubric: (49v) VI Non. Mar.

    Note: (49v) Ipso die depositio sancti ceddae episcopi et confessoris

    rubric: (49v) IIII Non. Mar.

    Note: (49v) [Obit]useaduuini ... fratris nostri sa ... dotis

    rubric: (49v) III Non. Mar.

    Note: (49v) [Obi]tusfreoðegari abbatis

    Note: (49v) Afnoði monachi

    Note: (49v) alfgari pueri subdiaconi

    rubric: (50r) II Non.

    Note: (50r) Obitus fratris nostri ... monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (50r) VIII Id. Mar.

    Note: (50r) Obitus fratris nostri ea ... monachi ac diaconi

    rubric: (50r) VI Id. Mar.

    Note: (50r) ... mon. sac. aelfr ...

    rubric: (51r) XVI Kal. Apr.

    Note: (51r) ... ri monachi

    rubric: (51r) XV Kal. Apr.

    Note: (51r) Eodem die Sancti eadƿeardi reg. et m.

    Note: (51r) Obitus fratris nostri ƿigbrihti monachi ac

    rubric: (51v) X Kal. Apr.

    Note: (51v) aeþelrici diaconi

    rubric: (52r) VI Kal. Apr.

    Note: (52r) Rogin ... et monachi

    rubric: (52v) IIII Kal. Apr.

    Note: (52v) aeþestanus obiit / ... venerabilis abba / (Que)m deus in celi / (cul)mine constituat

    rubric: (53r) Non. Apr.

    Note: (53r) ... monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (53v) IIII Id. Apr.

    Note: (53v) (Ob)iit aelfƿinus monachi et l.cognominatus hocking

    rubric: (53v) III Id. Apr.

    Note: (53v) brihtƿig episcopi

    rubric: (53v) II Id. Apr.

    Note: (53v) ... godus monachi

    rubric: (54r) XVII Kal. Mai.

    Note: (54r) bri ... monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (54v) XV Kal. Mai.

    Note: (54v) ... adƿini abb. Another entry gone

    rubric: (55r) XIII Kal. Mai.

    Note: (55r) Eodem die passio sancti aelfeahi archiepiscopi et martyris

    rubric: (55r) XII Kal. Mai.

    Note: (55r) aelf ... monachi a sacerdotis

    rubric: (55r) X Kal. Mai.

    Note: (55r) briht ...

    rubric: (55v) IX Kal. Mai.

    Note: (55v) ... eþelredi regis

    Note: (55v) ... eagi comitis et fratris

    Note: (55v) ... noði monachi et subdiaconi

    Note: (55v) alfgari (mon.)

    rubric: (56r) VII Kal. Mai.

    Note: (56r) aelfƿini ... subdiaconi

    rubric: (56r) IIII Kal. Mai.

    Note: (56r) obliterated

    rubric: (57r) Kalendae Mensis Maiae

    Note: (57r) eadƿig militis

    rubric: (57r) VI Non. Mai.

    Note: (57r) sidemanniet sororis nostre aels ...

    rubric: (57r) V Non. Mai.

    Note: (57r) Ipso die eleuatio et translatio secunda corporis sanctissimi confessoris Christi et abbatis Bertini

    rubric: (57v) V Non. Mai.

    Note: (57v) Obitus Erenberti militis bononiensis

    rubric: (57v) III Non. Mai.

    Note: (57v) ƿulfgari monachi

    rubric: (58r) VIII Id. Mai.

    Note: (58r) bv ... monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (59r) II Id. Mai.

    Note: (59r) aelfsini episcopi

    Note: (59r) beorst ... (mon.)

    rubric: (60r) XIIII Kal. Iun.

    Note: (60r) Eodem die dormiuit sanctus Dunstanus archiepiscopus in Christo

    rubric: (60v) XII Kal. Iun.

    Note: (60v) Siƿardi monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (60v) X Kal. Iun.

    Note: (60v) aelfredi mon. ac sacerdotis brihtegi subdiaconi

    rubric: (61r) VI Kal. Iun.

    Note: (61r) Item in ead. brittanie insula dep. uener. bede presbyteri confess. et doctoris

    rubric: (61r) V Kal. lun.

    Note: (61v) osgari abb.

    rubric: (61v) IIII Kal. Iun.

    Note: (61v) aelfƿini monachi ƿulfƿii diac.

    rubric: (61v) III Kal. Iun.

    Note: (61v) aelfƿii monachi

    rubric: (62r) II Kal. Iun.

    Note: (62r) eadgifu abbatiss(e). brihtmaeri diac.

    rubric: (62v) II Non. Iun.

    Note: (62v) depos. S. petroci C.

    rubric: (63v) II Id. Iun.

    Note: (63v) ... requiescit in hoc poliandro

    Note: The ends of six elegiac lines

    Note: (63v) ... omine clarisono

    Note: (63v) ... aderat ceu mistica lampas

    Note: (63v) ... us moribus egregius

    Note: (63v) ... iunii carnalia liquit

    Note: (63v) ... s. scandit ad astra poli

    rubric: (63v) II Id. Iun.

    Note: (63v) Lifingi episcopi

    rubric: (64r) XVII Kal. lul.

    Note: (64r) dep. s. eadburg. V.

    rubric: (64r) XVI Kal. Iul.

    Note: (64r) inuentio corporis Sancti Bertini Abbatis et confessoris

    rubric: (64v) XV Kal. Iul.

    Note: (64v) botulfii abbatis

    rubric: (65r) X Kal. Iul.

    Note: (65r) In ciuitate cestrensi S. Werburge V.

    rubric: (65r) VIII Kal. Iul.

    Note: (65r) godef ... monachi

    rubric: (66r) IIII Kal. Iulii

    Note: (66r) brihtrici monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (66v) VI Non. Iul.

    Note: (66v) depositio Sancti Sƿiþuni

    rubric: (67r) III Non. Iul.

    Note: (67r) aelfsta ... abb.

    rubric: (67r) II Non. Iul.

    Note: (67r) dep. S. Sexb(urge) sororis sancte adeldride

    rubric: (67v) Non. Iul.

    Note: (67v) dep. beati Hedde pontificis (de quo) uenerabilis Beda presbiteri in gestis etc.

    Note: (67v) transitus ... elburge u. sororis S. edeldride

    rubric: (67v) VIII Id. Iul.

    Note: (67v) Deposicio eadgari

    Note: (67v) Dep. Sancti Grimbaldi

    rubric: (67v) VII Id. Iul.

    Note: (67v) Godrici monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (68r) IIII Id. Iul.

    Note: (68r) Idibus qui quar ... dimisit ponders ... Presbiter aelfr ... frater et ipse bon(us)

    rubric: (68r) III Id. Iul.

    Note: (68v) Sancte Mildride V.

    rubric: (68v) Idus Iulii

    Note: (68v) Transl. Sancti Sƿiðuni

    Note: (68v) Deusdedit archiepiscopi

    rubric: (68v) XVII Kal. Augi.

    Note: (68v) Translatio prima ... Sancti Bertini

    rubric: (68v) XVI Kal. Aug.

    Note: (69r) Sancti Kenelmi

    Note: (69r) Sancti Alexii

    Note: (69r) Obitus aeðelƿardi monachi ac sacerdotis

    rubric: (69r) XV Kal. Aug.

    Note: (69r) Transl. Sancte edburge V.

    Note: (69r) electio Sancti eadƿeardi regis

    rubric: (69r) XIII Kal. Aug.

    Note: (69r) Sancte Margarite V. M.

    rubric: (71r) Kalendae Mensis Augusti

    Note: a.

    Note: (71r) hic presentis uite (terminum?) et supernae lucis (principium ?) beatus pater aþ(elƿoldus) episcopus sortitus est

    Note: b.

    Note: (71r) In anglia ciuitate (uuenta-) na. natalis S. adelƿo(ldi ep.) sanctitate ac miraculis (admi-) randi qui primum abbe(ndonien-) sium monachorum pas(tor) et abba extitit. dei(nde uero) eadgaro piissimo (rege) compellente pontific(alem) cathedram in prephat(a) urbe adeptus est

    rubric: (74v) IX Kal. Sep.

    Note: (74v) Bartholomew

    rubric: (77r) Non. Sep.

    Note: (77r) in monasterio dictum (!) sithdiu depositio Sanctissimi Bertini confessoris et abbatis

    rubric: (79r) XVI Kal. Oct.

    Note: (79r) monast(erio) ƿyltunensi Sancte (ead)giðe uirginis

    rubric: (80v) II Kal. Oct.

    Note: (81r) Dep. S. hon(orii) archiepiscopi etc.

    rubric: (83r) III Id. Oct.

    Note: (83r) Uilfridi ep.

    rubric: (83v) XIIII Kal. Nov.

    Note: (83v) ... reoðesƿyðe (uirg)inis

    rubric: (84r) X Kal. Nov.

    Note: (84r) In ciuitate (rotoma)go nat. (S. Ro)mani a ...

    rubric: (85v) Kalendae Mensis Novembris

    Note: (85v) ignulfus mon. sac.

    rubric: (86v) VIII Id. Nov.

    Note: (86v) brihtnoðus sac.

    rubric: (86v) VI Id. Nov.

    Note: (86v) Depositio domni ... ƿini abbatis

    rubric: (88v) XII Kal. Dec.

    Note: (88v) Eadmundi regis et martyris

    rubric: (88v) XI Kal. Dec.

    Note: (88v) Columbani

    rubric: (90r) III Non. Dec.

    Note: (90v) Depositio Sancti birini

    rubric: (91r) VI Id. Dec.

    Note: (91r) Obiit Math. filia uuilelm.

    rubric: (91v) Id. Dec.

    Note: (91v) In pago pontiuo Sancti Iudoci confessoris xiicim ℞

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (94r) Retiarie sancti ermetis exorciste

    Note: (94v) At top a monogram of A and ω

    Note: Then two formulae (xi) to announce death

    Note: a.

    incipit: (94v) † Domnus abba N. totaque Abbandoniensis coenobii caterua etc.

    Note: (for a priest's death)

    Note: b.

    incipit: (94v) † Karissimo domno æþelstano et cunctis fratribus Abbanduniensis monasterii. Nouerit uestra fraternitas quendam leuitam nomine N.

    Note: (94v) Below this is a faint sketch of an angel facing R. and pointing upwards: in very good Anglo-Saxon style

    Note: One or two other scribbles occur


    95r-163v - Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Diadema monachorum (incomplete) || Smaragdidiadema monachorum

    Note: (P. L. CII)

    rubric: (95r) Hunc modicum libellum Smaragdus De (di)versis virtutibus collegit. et ei nomen Diadema monachorum inposuit. quia sicut diadema regis gemmis. ita et hic liber fulget virtutibus

    Note: (95r) (good red capitals)

    incipit: (95r) Hunc modicum operis nostri libellum

    explicit: (95r) capitulum ponimus primum

    rubric: (95r) Explicit prologus

    Note: (95v) Capitula (100)

    rubric: (97r) Incipit liber diadema monachorumPrimitus de oratione

    incipit: (97v) Hoc est remedium eius qui uitiorum temptamentis exaestuat

    Note: (97v) This has a very good initial of fine interlaced work with dragons' heads

    Note: Sketch of a man's bust on f. 108v: of rough interlaced ornament (in dry point) on f. 112v

    Note: There are some glosses but, I think, none in Anglo-Saxon

    Note: Ends imperfectly in c. 84

    explicit: (163v) Conscientiam nostram ab operibus mortuis i. a peccatis

    Note: (163v) Note (xvi early)

    Note: (163v) Hic deest totus quaternio

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