On Cain: Text and Manuscripts

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Cain agricola, dolens sua munera et non fratris fuisse reprobata, licet a domino increpatus, fratrem septiformi peccato interfecit; postea uagus et instabilis super terram factus, postquam a domino est maledictus.

Cain, a farmer, grieving that his gifts but not his brother's had been rejected, although rebuked by God, killed his brother, a sevenfold sin. Later he became a wanderer, unsettled on the Earth, after he was cursed by God.

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Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.

Version

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Chaim agricola dolens sua munera. et non fratris
fuisse reprobata. licet a domino increpatus
fratrem septiformi peccato interfecit.
postea uagus et instabilis
super terram factus postquam
a domino etiam male
dictus.

Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Chain agricola dolens sua munera et non
fratris fuisse reprobata licet a domino incre
patus fratrem septiformi peccato
interfecit. postea uagus et instabilis
super terram factus. postquam a domino est male
dictus.

Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek, Hs. 490 (Schiffmann 26) (Lz1)

Manuscript group AT2

Köln, Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, W 247 (Kö)

Manuscript group BE1

Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Cod. 696 (K)

Manuscript group FR1

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Cahim agricola dolens
sua munera. et non fratris
fuisse reprobata. licet
a domino increpatus
fratrem septiformi peccato
interfecit. postea uagus
et instabilis super terram
factus postquam a do
mino est maledictus

Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Sal. IX, 40 (H)

Manuscript group GB3

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Chaim agricola dolens sua munera et non fratris fuisse re
probata. licet a domino increpatus. fratrem septiformi pec
cato interfecit. postea uagus et instabilis super terram.
factus! postquam a domino etiam maledictus.

Version 2

Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1973.5 (Cl)

Admont, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 128 (Ad)

Manuscript group AT3

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 15.11 (F1)

Manuscript group FR3

Version 3

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 83 (C3)

Manuscript group GB2

Version 4

Frankfurt am Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. germ. quart 13 (Fm)

Manuscript group CH1

Version 6

Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. Apel 1 (Le1)

Manuscript group NL1

Citation recommendation

On Cain: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-cain.

Credits

Data modeling, data curation and web design: Jakob Sonnberger
Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
Mercator Fellows: Laura Cleaver and Franz Fischer