Bede at Cluny

Bede at Cluny



    Etant donné qu'il y a plein de choses à dire autour de l'influence de l'Abbaye de Cluny sur l'Angleterre, on peut constater qu'il y avait au moins un peu d'influence venant dans l'autre sens. Parmi les manuscrits clunisiens sauvés de la révolution française, il y en a un qui montre que les oeuvres du moine anglais Bede (672-735) étaient lues à Cluny pendant le XIe siècle. Cette version des homélies de Bede, copiée à Cluny entre 1067 et 1100, se trouve maintenant dans la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. / While there is very much that could be said about the influence of Cluny Abbey upon England, there is evidence that the influence went, at least to some extent, in the other direction as well. One of the manuscripts saved at the abbey's destruction following the French Revolution, and preserved now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, shows that the works of the Englishman the Venerable Bede ("Doctor Anglorum") were being read at Cluny in the late 11th century. This version, 129 pages long, of fifty of Bede's homelies, was copied in the scriptorium at Cluny between 1067 and 1100. The pages give a text from the Gospel, and then there is an illuminated capital letter marking the beginning of Bede's exposition. 




    Mostly the letters show the colours and swirling patterns that must have been such features of the 11th century aesthetic, but a couple show living things such as a man (Nicodemus) and fish.















Beda Venerabilis, Opera homiletica (L homiliae in evangelia)
 
Date :
 1067-1100 
Contributor :
 Abbaye Saint-Pierre (Cluny, Saône-et-Loire).
 http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc69769m

Type :
 
manuscript
Language :
 latin
Format :
 
France (Cluny). - Ecriture minuscule caroline d’une seule main, proche de celle qui a transcrit, dans le Cartulaire A (NAL 1497), une partie des actes passés sous l’abbatiat d’Aymard et quelques-uns de ceux de Maïeul (cf. Mss datés, p. 169). - Quatre initiales représentant des figures de l’Ancien...
Description :
 
Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document original
Description :
 
Collection numérique : Programme Polonsky (BnF/British Library)
Description :
 
Collection numérique : Théologie et philosophie
Description :
 
Mécénat : Ce manuscrit a été numérisé dans le cadre de « France-Angleterre, 700-1200 : manuscrits médiévaux de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, un programme de la Fondation Polonsky ».
Description :
 
Recueil de 50 homélies, divisé en deux livres (f. 1r-58r et 58v-129r) précédés par une table. Nous fournissons la référence à la page d’après l’édition Beda Venerabilis, Opera homiletica. Opera rhythmica, éd. D. Hurst, J. Fraipont, Turnhout : Brepols, 1955 (Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 122),...
Description :
 
Lieu de copie : France (Cluny).
Rights :
 Public domain
Identifier :
 ark:/12148/btv1b10551315q
Source :
 Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. NAL 1450
Provenance :
 Bibliothèque nationale de France
Online date :
 19/11/2017

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