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Add MS 40165 A, ff 1r-5r

Record Id:

041-002353501

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002091890

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002002.0x0001a5

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 40165 A, ff 1r-5r

Title:

Cyprian Epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX

Scope & Content:

Contents: Three fragments from St Cyprian's epistles:.

1. Epistle LV, p. 645, 1. 11, "facit daemoniis" - p. 647, 1. 16, "inuenerint iudica[bit]." (f. 1r);

2. Epistle LXXIV: '[re]tro nusquam'(p. 801, 1. 12), to 'effectus/m est.' (p. 808,11. 9, 10) (ff. 2r-4r);

3. Epistle LXIX: 'aepiscopo legitima' (p. 752, 1. 11) - 'episco[po] alium sibi' (p. 754, 1. 17) (f. 5r).

(References to Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vol 3, Part 2).

The manuscript of which these fragments formed part, appears to have been the archetype, (at least in these three letters) of the English group of manuscripts (classed by von Soden, 1904) as 'n', which includes Royal MS 6 B XV, Oxford, Bodley Latin MS 210, New College MS 130, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 25.

Decoration: Biblical quotations in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002091890
040-002091891
041-002353501

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Add MS 40165 A-B : Commentaries and theological treatises
Add MS 40165 A : Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments

Add MS 40165 A, ff 1r-5r : Cyprian Epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX

Hierarchy:

032-002091890[0001]/040-002091891[0001]/041-002353501

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Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

A parchment fragment of 5 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0300

End Date:

0499

Date Range:

300-499

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Physical Characteristics:

Collation: 5 folios of a possible gathering of 8? leaves.

Dimensions: 185 x 145 mm (irregular).

Script: Uncial.

Layout: Written in four narrow columns of ?33 lines to a column (only 24 lines survive).

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts

Publications:

Cyprianus Opera: 2, ed. by Willhelm Hartel, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, III (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1868-72) [available online at http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/open-access-to-corpus-scriptorum.html accessed September 2012].

New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., First Series, 2 vols, ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others (London: [n. pub.], 1903-1912), II, pls. 101,102.

Hans von Soden, Die Cyprianische Briefsammlung. Geschichte ihrer Entstehung und Uberlieferung, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, Neue Folge, 10 (Liepzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1904), p. 130.

Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 178.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 64-65.

William Schipper, 'Digitising (Nearly) Unreadable Fragments of Cyprian's Epistolary' in The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, ed. by Sian Echard and Stephen Partridge (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 157-68

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)