Cambridge, Trinity College, O.2.30 1: Isidoran collection; 2: Eadmer, ''Vita S. Dunstani"; 3: "Regula S. Benedicti," alphabetical exhortations

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88. Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.2.30 (1134)

1: Isidoran collection; 2: Eadmer, ''Vita S. Dunstani";

3: "Regula S. Benedicti," alphabetical exhortations

[Part 3: Ker 94, Gneuss 189]

HISTORY: This book combines three separate and unrelated manuscripts: Part 1, ff. 1-72, late 11c or early 12c, writings of Isidore of Seville; Part 2, ff. 73-128, 12c, Eadmer's "Vita S. Dunstani" (not Osbern's, pace James 1900-1904: 3.127); Part 3, ff. 129-172, mid-10c, "Regula S. Benedicti," preceded by a list of sins and followed by four "sermons." The "Regula," the oldest A-S copy of the Latin reciptus mixed-text recension (see Gretsch 1974: 128-3737; also Gretsch 1973: 22-24 et passim), has Latin glosses, which are collected together at the end of each section; there are also OE glosses. Part 3 of the manuscript (ff. 129-172) was presumably written at St. Augustine's, Canterbury; its other parts (ff. 1-128) once belonged to the priory of St. Mary Overeys at Southwark. Bishop (1957: 324-26) considers the hand of Part 3 to be maturer work by the same scribe as that of Trinity College 0.4.10 Quvenal, s. x^med, St. Augustine's, Canterbury) and B.11.2 [77] (Amalarius, s. x^med, St. Augustine's, later provenance Exeter).

The Rule and the unrelated manuscript from Southwark (ff. 1-128) were lot 45 in the John Humphry of Rothwell sale, 4 Decembe