Codex Corbiensis
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Codex Corbiensis is a book produced in the famous scriptorium
of Corbie Abbey
in the 9th century and is now held in the Russian National Library
, Saint Petersburg (Q. v. I 39).
The manuscript
includes a copy of an Old Latin (or Vetus Latina
) version of the Epistle of James
, without lacunae
.
Scriptorium
Scriptorium, literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the copying of manuscripts by monastic scribes...
of Corbie Abbey
Corbie Abbey
Corbie Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Corbie, Picardy, France, dedicated to Saint Peter.-Foundation:It was founded in about 659/661 under Merovingian royal patronage by Balthild, widow of Clovis II, and her son Clotaire III...
in the 9th century and is now held in the Russian National Library
Russian National Library
The National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
, Saint Petersburg (Q. v. I 39).
The manuscript
Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...
includes a copy of an Old Latin (or Vetus Latina
Vetus Latina
Vetus Latina is a collective name given to the Biblical texts in Latin that were translated before St Jerome's Vulgate Bible became the standard Bible for Latin-speaking Western Christians. The phrase Vetus Latina is Latin for Old Latin, and the Vetus Latina is sometimes known as the Old Latin Bible...
) version of the Epistle of James
Epistle of James
The Epistle of James, usually referred to simply as James, is a book in the New Testament. The author identifies himself as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ", with "the earliest extant manuscripts of James usually dated to mid-to-late third century."There are four views...
, without lacunae
Lacuna (manuscripts)
A lacunaPlural lacunae. From Latin lacūna , diminutive form of lacus . is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or a musical work...
.
External links
- Medieval Manuscript Books from the 5th-15th Centuries — from the official site of the National Library of Russia.
- Zolotova, Ekaterina and Inna Mokretsova. West-European Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts from Moscow Collections. Moscow, 2003.