Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional 20
Additional 20
General Information
97
206
A fragment of the Latin-Old English recension of the Rule of Chrodegang, containing parts of chapters 39, 40 and 43. There is a complete copy of the Rule of Chrodegang in CCCC 191, and a copy of part of chapter 61 in BL Add. 34652. Ker 1957 refers to the fragment as 'Canterbury, Cathedral, Box CCC no. xixa' (pp. 138-39).
Digital Surrogate
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- Item: fols 1r-2v
Title (B.10.4.1): Chrodegang of Metz, Regula Canonicorum
Incipit: (fol. 1r from ch. 39) Se healfa dæl þæra preosta | þe yldran beon ... ge | macan sceona finde man ælcum
Explicit: (fol. 2v) 7 he him heora | [neode be his m]ihtum do. 7] georne ... [swa micle ma eo]wer ælc sceal oþres
Note: Parts of chapters 39, 40, and 43. Four leaves missing between fols 1 and 2.
Bibliography:
Doane 1997, pp. 1-2
Ker 1957, item 97
Object Description
Fragment of a bifolium
Support: Parchment
Extent: According to Ker 1957:
- 236 mm x 163 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaf)
- 224 mm x 115 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
Collation:
Quires: About four leaves are missing between folio 1 and 2; hence this bifolium was probably sheets 2 and 7 of the quire.
Condition: According to Ker 1957, it 'formed the wrapper of a small book' (p. 139).
Layout Description: 19 lines.
Hand Description
Number of Hands: 1
Hand: Main
Scope: Major
Script: Caroline Minuscule with Insular letters
Ker reference: Ker 97 SC1
Description: According to Doane 1997, 'a round Anglo-Caroline in the Latin and an Insular minuscule of similar character in the OE' (p. 1). Ker 1957 describes it as 'a large round hand' (p. 139).
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- a in Old English is round and insular.
- a and e are the same height in the combination æ.
- d in Old English is round and its ascender is very short.
- e in Old Engish is round-backed (as in Latin); its head is very small.
- Insular g has a round loop which closes.
- Long and high forms of s are used indifferently.
- Rounded y in Latin, and straight-limbed y in Old English; both forms are dotted.
- ascenders are wedged and sometimes split.
Initial in scarlet, outlined in pale pink, rubrics in pale orange (Doane 1997, p. 1).
Additional Information
Described by Takako Kato, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).
Digital surrogate: https://ims.canterbury-cathedral.org/viewcontainer.tlx?containerid=15100534759 (accessed 18 July 2018)
Doane, Alger Nicolaus, '109. Canterbury Cathedral Library, Additional 20: "Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang" (fragment)', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1997), vol. 5: Latin Manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon Glosses
History
Provenance: Ker 1957 identifies it as the copy of Regula canonicorium among the Libri anglici in the early 14th-century catalogue of Christ Church, Canterbury, but James says that this entry presumably refers to 'the Rule of St. Augustine' (See Doane 1997, p. 1).
Acquisition: Formerly 'Box CCC no. xixa'. It was discovered by William Urry in the 1940s in Canterbury (Ker 1957, p. vii).
Canterbury Christ Church
Doane, Alger Nicolaus, '109. Canterbury Cathedral Library, Additional 20: "Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang" (fragment)', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1997), vol. 5: Latin Manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon Glosses, pp. 1-2
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 207
James, Montague Rhodes, Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 97
Napier, Arthur S., ed., The Old English Version of the Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang together with the Latin Original; An Old English Version of the Capitula of Theodulf together with the Latin Original; An Interlinear Old English Rendering of the Epitome of Benedict of Aniane, EETS, OS 150 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1916)
---, 'The Rule of Chrodegang in Old English', Modern Language Notes, 18 (1903), 241
---, 'Two Old English Fragments', Modern Language Notes, 12 (1897), 105-14
Scragg, Donald, Alexander Rumble, and Kathryn Powell, C11 Database Project (Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mancass/c11database/; accessed in 2009). Available for limited viewing on the Internet Wayback Machine.
Takako Kato