Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 183 Old shelfmarks Under D. 5; T. James 369 Short title Bedae Vita Cuthberti. Genealogiae etc. Century 9 (Bradshaw) Language Latin Previous owners It can hardly be doubted that the book is from Durham Priory, but I cannot identify it with anything in the Catalogi Veteres. Ia is blank but for a letter W at top (xvi), possibly indicating that Nich. Wotton was the donnor. Material Membr. Format 4 Height × width 11 1/2 x 7 9/10 in. No. of leaves 96 Gatherings A-I^8(wants 6) K-L^8( 4, 5 are singles) M^8(+1). Fo. 2 Incipit prefatio or Scripta erant. No. of hands 2 Type of writing Vetustioribus literis Saxonicis scriptus. In a very beautiful Abglo-Celtic hand. Lineation 26 lines (mostly) Decorations On Ib is a fine full-page picture. Printed catalogs James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I,3 (1910) 426-41. Source Folkerts | James, Corpus Christi College I,3 (1910) Type of source cat. | pvt. notes Source’s source insp. Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae: Work 2Title (ms.) Maße, Zahlenmystik u.ä. Contents Ossia hominis sunt numero .cc.xviiii. Dentium numerus in perfecta aetate .xxxii. Christianus historicus dicit longitudinem mundi esse .xii. ... Longitudino templi ... Tabernaculum habens longitudinis cubitos .xxx. ... Longitudino eccle sci ... De arca noe .ccc. cubit. in longit. ... De noue et uetere canone libri sunt .lxxii. ... Hic est numerum in psalterio uersu. ... In .i. miliario perticarum .cccclxxx. pedum ... Duo grana ordei. ... In principio creauit deus caelum et terram mare et omnia. ... Incipit Prima aetas infantia vii annis. Secunda pueritia xiiii etc. Additional remarks Christianus Historicus I believe to be Cosmas Indicopleustes. The dimensions of the earth according to him agree with those given above. He conceives of it as oblong in form, and compares it with the tabernacle and the ark. I connect the citation of him here with a letter of Koaena archbishop of York to Lullus of Mainz, in which certain "libri cosmografiorum" are mentioned. (Jaffe, Monumenta Moguntina, p. 291) See Mr E.O. Winstedt's Cosmas Indicopleustes, Cambridge, 1909, p. ix. Folio no. 68b-9b Explicit et sanctificauit illum. quia in ipso requieuit ab omni opere suo quod creauit. Additional copies Cf. British Museum Cotton Vespasian B. 6 (V) 106b-7a. This group of paragraphs, from De trina incarnatione, occurs again in Nr. 320, 95-100. Some of the matter is also found in Julius A. 2 in Anglo-Saxon, printed by Napier, Anglia, XI, 1.
