Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.17.1
Codex Augiensis
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11948
Contents
Gregory-Aland Fp/010; Von Soden α 1029 (Ia1); Scrivener Paul. F
Occasional passages have been omitted from the Greek text, with space left for them to be added, due to losses to the examplar (e.g. ff. 15r, 35r-35v, 94r-94v); in other cases this applies to both the Latin and Greek text (e.g. ff. 78r, f. 124r)
Defective at the beginning (begins during Rom 3:19)
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The last folio of this text has been bound out of position
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The early folios of this text have been bound out of position
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The Greek text ends incomplete, having never been finished (ends at Phm 1:20)
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Excerpt: the Argumentum (PL 112, col. 711)
PL 112, coll. 711-834
Excerpt: Chapter 23, Dicta abbatis Pinophi: (PL 112, coll. 1329-1332); the text here diverges from the PL edition after f. 141r, col. 2, line 1: ‘non recordabor’ (PL 112, col. 1331)
PL 112, coll. 1304-1332
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript consists of 18 quires, all quaternia.
- Quire 18-7 f. 7 This quire is a quaternion, whose first, originally blank folio, was pierced and ruled for copying but is employed as the left pastedown. The following six folios have been lost, with loss of text, leaving only the conjoint leaf of the pastedown
- Quires 2-128 ff. 8-95
- Quire 138 ff. 96-102, 111 Quire 14 has been erroneously inserted between the seventh and eighth folios of this quire
- Quire 148 ff. 103-110 This is the original eighth quire, which should appear after f. 55
- Quires 15-178 ff. 112-134
- Quire 188-1 ff. 135-141 The last folio has been cancelled, without loss of text
Condition
Layout
Two columns of 28 lines. 162 × 130 mm. Pricking survives in all three margins. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 3 (ruled on the hair side), type Leroy 20D2. Text stands on the lines, but is often slightly above them. The Greek text appears in the inner column, the Latin text in the outer.
Hand(s)
The main text was copied in brown ink. The Latin text is written in Carolingian minuscule, the Greek in a western European majuscule script, without superscriptions of word endings or abbreviations apart from nomina sacra , which often appear in a longer form than usual, e.g. ‘χρς’ instead of ‘χς’. Headings are written in the same style in red ink.
The Greek text contains numerous spelling errors and corrections, while there are few in the Latin. There are deletions by expunctuation and erasure. Common spelling errors include confusion between eta and epsilon, reflecting non-native pronunciation.
Diacritics are not used, apart from occasional acute accents, hooked at the upper end, and the occasional use of the double dot on iota and upsilon, not determined by function but appearing recurrently particular words such as ἵνα (e.g. f. 11r) and forms of ὑμεῖς (e.g. f. 12r).
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points. A large proportion of Greek words are followed by a middle point, probably to indicate word division. There are errors in word division. Some words appear with gaps within them, perhaps due to an erroneous word division, but joined with a curved line below, similar to a hyphen.
Decoration
The beginnings of books and some sections are marked by plain enlarged initials in red ink.
The beginnings of other sections are marked by enlarged initials in brown ink.
Additions
There are various interlinear Latin glosses in the Greek text, by a medieval hand. Extensive marginal and interlinear annotations in Latin have been added to the Latin text of ff. 13r-44r, by a later hand. There is a marginal note in Latin by Mieg, added to by a later hand, on f. 139v.
Running heads indicating the present epistle have been added in the upper margin of each folio, recto. The beginning of some chapters has been noted in the margin. There are notes of omissions of text and the misplacement of a quire by Richard Bentley (e.g. ff. 35r, 55v).
There is a series of notes of ownership on the left pastedown, by Georg Michael Wepfer, Ludwig Christian Mieg and Richard Bentley: ‘Georgii Michaelis Wepfer Schaphusiani’; ‘Iam Ludovici Christiani Miegii’; ‘Emptus hic codex Richardo Bentleio Anno Domini MDCCXVIII’.
Another note on this pastedown has been rendered partially illegible: ‘Tempus ad huc v...t ..ph......’. There are a number of other notes here on the manuscript and its scholarly use: ‘This MS. is not written in Anglo-Saxon characters, as has been described, but in the renovated minuscule of the Caroline period (saec. ix vel x).I. O. W.’; ‘Collatus et transcriptus hic codex integer. F. H. Scrivener, 1855’; ‘Codex Augiensis (supposed to have been written in the ninth century) noted F in the second part of Wetstein's NT. Vid Martis Michaelis Chap VIII Sect VI. 4’; ‘Wetstein's Prolegom Vol I. p 153. Vol II p 6 Monti's Life of Bentley. II p 121. Hunc Codicem parvo aestimavit Wetstenius plurimi Bentleius. vid qui not. MS ad initium Novi Testamenti Oxoniensis 1675 octavo (B.17.8 inscripti) quocum Codicem contulit. J. W. 1839’. The classmark and M.R. James catalogue number also appear here.
On f. 141v is an ownership note of the monastery of Augia Major, Reichenau by a 16th-century hand: ‘Hic liber est monasterii Augie Maioris qui per dominum de Wildenstain abbatem accomodatus fuit magistro Georgio Schoentin de Schorndorff decretorum doctor canoinico in Sindelfingen tempore Basiliensis’. Other notes here include a Greek alphabet with alternative letter-forms and a table of the forms of the definite article.
Notes and pen-trials on the right pastedown include a note by Bentley on the monastery of Augia Major: ‘Monasteriu Augiae, in Belgio, ubi institutus est Goddeschalcus’.
Binding
15th-century binding with wooden boards, with the spine and roughly one third of the boards covered with white skin decorated with a stamped design. The stub of a leather and fabric strap fastening is fixed to the outside of the right board by a brass plate, with a brass clasp attachment on the outside of the left board. The covering of the left board is marked with Wepfer's initials, G. M. W., and the title ‘Epistole Pauli Grece et Latine’ is written on the front board in a 15th-century hand.
260 × 195 × 55 mm.
Accompanying Material
While the left pastedown is the first folio of the first quire, which was ruled but left blank, the right pastedown is a separate, unruled parchment leaf.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by the monastery of Augia Major , Reichenau, as indicated by the note on f. 141v.
Owned by Georg Michael Wepfer (1692-1774) of Schaffhausen, as indicated by his note on the left pastedown.
Owned by Ludwig Christian Mieg (1668-1740) , as indicated by his note on the left pastedown.
Bought from Mieg in 1718 by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) , Master of Trinity.
Bequeathed by Bentley to the College Library after his death.
Additional Information
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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