Canterbury Cathedral Library, Additional 20 "Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang" (fragment)

Abstract

109. Canterbury Cathedral Library, Additional 20

"Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang" (fragment)

[Ker 97, Gneuss 206]

HISTORY: A fragment of the Latin-OE recension of the Rule of Chrodegang (Bishop of Metz, 742-766), of which there is a complete copy in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 191 (39) and a fragment containing parts of Chap. 61 in London, British Library, Additional 34,652, f. 3 (165) (Napier 1897, 1903). Written in second half of llc. Ker identifies it as a fragment of the book recorded as "Regula canonicorum" among the "Libri anglici" in the early 14c catalogue of Christ Church, Canterbury, compiled for Henry Eastry, Prior from 1284-1331 Games 1903: 51, no. 317), although James says that entry is "presumably (to] the Rule of St. Augustine" (p. xxvii). Formerly Box CCC no. xixa. Discovered by William Urry in the 1940s (Ker, Cat. vii).