Hyginus, Ps.-Seneca — 11th century (?) or the beginning of the 12th

Title

Hyginus, Ps.-Seneca — 11th century (?) or the beginning of the 12th

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 145

Date

11th century (?) or the beginning of the 12th

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 67 leaves

Decoration

With coloured capitals

Musical notation

Nicholson notes that the neumes on fol. 56 are in a lighter ink than the main text and that an ink of the same colour was used by a corrector on fol. 44v who seems to be roughly contemporary with the main scribe. The similarity in the colour of the ink leads Nicholson to speculate that it may have been the corrector who added the neumes. Nicholson reports H. M. Bannister's opinion that the neumes are from Metz, with Bannister noting the similarity with those found in a 12th century antiphon in honour of the Belgian saint Lambert on fol. 155 of MS. Auct. T. 2. 23. Bannister compares MS. D'Orville 145 to Vatican MS. Reg. lat. 1987, fol. 1r, also from St Peter's, Ghent, which has the same lines and similar neumes but repeated throughout the poem ( Some of the Oldest Latin Musical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library[1913], vol. 3, p. lxxix). See also Henry Marriott Bannister, Monumenti vaticani di paleografia musicale latina(Lipsia, 1913), p. 101, note 2

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Provenance

'Liber Sancti Petri Gandavensis ecclesie. Seruanti benedictio. Tollenti maledictio. Qui folium ex eo tulerit, uel cretauerit, anahema sit.' (12th century)

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Title

The Astronomica of Hyginus, with a few glosses, latin verses and other writings

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 145

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 1) The Astronomica of Hyginus, with a few glosses: not divided into books, but with the preface 'Hyginus M. Fabio plurimam salutem.'

(fol. 56) Twelve Latin verses on the signs of the Zodiac (beg. 'Ad Boreae partes'), with musical notes (added somewhat later) for reciting them

(fol. 57) 'Proverbia .A. Senecae', sayings gathered from his works, in alphabetical order, beg. 'Alienum est omne.'.

Other writings include 'Liber Sancti Petri Gandavensis ecclesie. Seruanti benedictio. Tollenti maledietio. Qui folium ex eo tulerit, uel cretauerit, anahema sit.' (12th cent.).

Date

written perhaps in the 11th cent.

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with coloured capitals

Physical extent

67 Leaves