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Sylloge Centulensis

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A collection (sylloge) of about 67 epigraphs from Rome, Ravenna and Spoleto, which is found in a single manuscript that is housed today in Saint Petersburg. The core of the collection is thought to date back to the pontificate of Pope Honorius I (625–638). An addition found at the end of this work in that manuscript is an epitaph of the Irishman Caidocus, with a signature by Angilbert. Apart from this addition, the latest entry appears to be that of King Ceadwalla (d. 689).

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Saint Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional'naja Biblioteka, MS lat. F xiv 1

ff. 122r–138r

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] de Rossi, Ioannes Baptista, Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae, 2 vols, vol. 2.1, Rome: P. Cuggiani, 1888.

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78–95

Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 1, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1881.

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365–366 Four inscriptions only.

Secondary sources (select)

Sharpe, Richard, “King Ceadwalla’s Roman epitaph”, in: Katherine OʼBrien OʼKeeffe, and Andy Orchard (eds), Latin learning and English lore: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature for Michael Lapidge, 2 vols, vol. 1, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 171–193.

173–174

Raises the possibility that the collection was known in England at an early period and that a copy had reached Corbie together with works by Aldhelm, which are contained in the same manuscript.