Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 23

Present Location
Shelfmark

23

Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

31

Gnuess/Lapidge

38

Summary

Old English glosses to s. x2 texts of Prudentius' Psychomachia and Peristephanon, and Old English translations of some of the titles of illustrations to the Psychomachia. Main texts in Latin and probably in England. Old English glosses dated by Ker 1957 to s. xi; Old English titles in three hands, dated to s. x/xi, s. ximed and s. xi2 or xi/xii. French glosses are s. xii-xiii. From Malmesbury.

Digital Surrogate:

https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nz663nv2057

Manuscript Items
  1. Itemfol. 3v
    • Title (C.26.1.1.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 3v) Her æteoƿdon ðry englas abrahame on ðam dene ðe mambre ƿæs haten

      Text Language: English

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  2. Itemfol. 4r
    • Title (C.26.1.2.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 4r) Her prudentius hine gebitt on namen ('on naman' was added later)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  3. Itemfol. 4v
    • Title (C.26.1.3.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 4v) Her se geleafa fiht ongean ða deofolgyld

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  4. Itemfol. 5v
    • Title (C.26.1.4.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 5v) Her se geleafa æfter geƿunnenum sige geƿuldorbeagað ða mihta

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  5. Itemfol. 6r
    • Title (C.26.1.5.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 6r) Her seo clænnys fiht ongean galnysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  6. Itemfol. 6v
    • Title (C.26.1.6.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 6v) Her seo clænnys ƿyrpð þa galnysse mid stane

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  7. Itemfol. 6v
    • Title (C.26.1.7.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 6v) Her seo clænnys ðurhðyð þa galnysse mid sƿurde

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  8. Itemfol. 7r
    • Title (C.26.1.8.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 7r) Her seo clænnys ðreað þa adƿęscedan galnysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  9. Itemfol. 8r
    • Title (C.26.1.9.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 8r) Her seo clænnys aðƿoh hyre sƿurd on ðære ea iordane

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  10. Itemfol. 8v
    • Title (C.26.1.10.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 8v) Her seo clænnys behyt hyre sƿyrd on ðam temple

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  11. Itemfol. 8v
    • Title (C.26.1.11.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 8v) Her þæt geðyld stent unforht betƿeonan ðara leahtra truman

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  12. Itemfol. 9r
    • Title (C.26.1.12.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 9r) Her þæt yrre slihð þæt geðyld mid his spere

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  13. Itemfol. 9r
    • Title (C.26.1.13.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 9r) Her þæt yrre ðreað þæt geðyld

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  14. Itemfol. 9v
    • Title (C.26.1.14.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 9v) Her þæt yrre scyt his spere ongean þæt geðyld

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  15. Itemfol. 9v
    • Title (C.26.1.15.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol.9v) Her synd ða ƿæpna tobrocene ðe þæt yrre scet ongean þæt geðuld

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  16. Itemfol. 10r
    • Title (C.26.1.16.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 10r) Her slihð þæt yrre þæt geðuld

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  17. Itemfol. 10v
    • Title (C.26.1.17.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 10v) Her ƿæs ðæs yrres sƿurd tobrocen on ðæs geðuldes heafde

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  18. Itemfol. 11r
    • Title (C.26.1.18.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 11r) Her þæt yrre ofslihð hit sylf mid his sƿurde beforan ðam geðulde

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  19. Itemfol. 11r
    • Title (C.26.1.19.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 11r) Her þæt geðyld ðreað þæt deade yrre

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  20. Itemfol. 11v
    • Title (C.26.1.20.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 11v) Her þæt geðyld mid iobe ðam halgan ðurhferde ðara leahtra truman

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  21. Itemfol. 11v
    • Title (C.26.1.21.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 11v) Her þæt geðyld sprecð to iobe

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  22. Itemfol. 12r
    • Title (C.26.1.22.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 12r) Her þæt geðyld ofersƿiððum leahtrum sprecð to ðam mihton

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  23. Itemfol. 12r
    • Title (C.26.1.23.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 12r) Her seo modinys rit into þæt folc on ungemidlodon horse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  24. Itemfol. 12v
  25. Itemfol. 13r
    • Title (C.26.1.25.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 13r) Her seo modinys on horse ðyƿð þæt folc ac seo eadmodnys 7 se hiht standað unforhte

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  26. Itemfol. 14v
    • Title (C.26.1.26.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 14v) Her seo modinys ƿyle offeallan ða eadmodnysse 7 ðone hiht

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  27. Itemfol. 15r
    • Title (C.26.1.27.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 15r) Her seo modinys feald on ðone seað

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876 

  28. Itemfol. 15v
    • Title (C.26.1.28.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 15v) Her seo eadmodnys gebysmrað þa licgendan modinysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957 pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  29. Itemfol. 16r 
    • Title (C.26.1.29.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 16r) Her seo modinys lið 7 se hiht byt his sƿurd ðære eadmodnysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  30. Itemfol. 16r
    • Title (C.26.1.30.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 16r) Her seo eadmodnys heaƿð of ðære modinysse heafod

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  31. Itemfol. 16v
    • Title (C.26.1.31.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 16v) her seo eadmodnys byt ðan hihte ðære modinysse heafod

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  32. Itemfol. 16v
    • Title (C.26.1.32.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 16v) her se hiht ðreað þa adƿæscedan modinysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  33. Itemfol. 17v
    • Title (C.26.1.33.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 17v) her seo eadmodnys astihð to heofonan ðam oðrum mihtum ƿundrigendum

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  34. Itemfol. 17v
    • Title (C.26.1.34.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 17v) her seo galnys sit on hyre gebeorscipe

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  35. Itemfol. 18r
    • Title (C.26.1.35.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 18r) her seo galnys arn to gefeohte ða heo ða byman gehyrde

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  36. Itemfol. 18v
    • Title: Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 18v) her þæt folc ƿundrað hu seo galnys færð on hyre cræte

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  37. Itemfol. 18v
    • Title (C.26.1.36.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 18v) her seo galnys bepæcð ða mihta mid hyre gesƿæsnyssum

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  38. Itemfol. 19r
    • Title (C.26.1.37.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Incipit(fol. 19r) her þæt folc lede his ƿæpna. 7 filide ðære galnysse

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  39. Itemfol. 19v
    • Title (C.26.1.38.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Rubric (initial):

      Addition(fol. 19v) Eal þæt gaderunge mid geƿende tacen to ðe galnesse for

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  40. Itemfol. 19v
    • Title (C.26.1.39.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 19v) her sy syfernesse ðam folce mid ƿorde geðreað

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  41. Itemfol. 21r
    • Title (C.26.1.40.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 21r) Her seo seofernysse bereð cristes rode ongean ðeas galnesse cræte

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  42. Itemfol. 21v
    • Title (C.26.1.41.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 21v) Her seo syfernesse ƿerpð ða galnesse mid stane

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  43. Itemfol. 24v
    • Title (C.26.1.42.EM): Translation of Latin title to an illustration

      Addition(fol. 24v) Her seo galnese tytrode hir cyn on hire sylfre

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  44. Itemfol. 29r
  45. Itemfol. 33v
  46. Itemfol. 19r
  47. Itemfol. 19r
    • Title (C.94.3.2.EM): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

      Addition(fol. 19r) space (glossing Latin radiorum)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Meritt 1945 no. 25

  48. Itemfol. 34r
    • Title (C.94.3.3.EM): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

      Addition(fol. 34r) ƿifreð (glossing Latin uibrat)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Meritt 1945 no. 25

  49. Itemfol. 34r
    • Title (C.94.3.4.EM): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

      Addition(fol. 34r) of ylpebane (glossing Latin ex eburna)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Zupitza 1876

  50. Itemfol. 38v 
    • Title (C.94.3.5.EM): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

      Rubric (initial):

      Addition(fol. 38v) holod (glossing Latin dolatu)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Meritt 1945 no. 25

  51. Itemfol. 43r
    • Title (C.94.3.6.EM): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

      Addition(fol. 43r) gyre (glossing Latin toge)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, pp. 42-43

      Meritt 1945 no. 25

  52. Itemfol. 43v
  53. Itemfols 32v, 33r, 34r and 39v
    • Title: French glosses

      Text Language: French

      Date: s. xii-xiii

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 43

      Hunt 1991


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Form

Form Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013). Thanks to Jocelyn Wogan Browne for her suggestions regarding this manuscript.

Surrogates

 Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nz663nv2057 (accessed 18 July 2018)


History

Provenance

Malmesbury

Bibliography

Atherton, Mark, 'The image of the Temple in the Psychomachia and late Anglo-Saxon literature', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 79:3 (1997), 263-85

Hunt, Tony, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England: Volume 1, Texts; Volume 2, Glosses; Volume 3, Indexes (Cambridge: Brewer, 1991)

Karkov, Catherine E., 'Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 23 Psychomachia', Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001), 115-36

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 31

Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)

Page, Raymond I., 'On the feasibility of a corpus of Anglo-Saxon glosses: the view from the library', in Anglo-Saxon Glossography: Papers read at the International Conference held in the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 8 and 9 September 1986, ed. R. Derolez (Brussels: Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 1992), pp. 77-95

Wieland, Gernot R., 'Gloss and illustration: two means to the same end?', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage, ed. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 1-20

Zupitza, Julius, 'Englisches aus Prudentiushandschriften', Zeitschrift fær deutsches Alterthum, 20 (1876), 36-45