Calendarial rules., Prognostics. — 10th century; Continental European with English additions
MS. Barlow 35
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Calendarial rules., Prognostics. — 10th century; Continental European with English additions
Alcuin — 10th century; Continental European with English additions
Glossaries. — 10th century; Continental European with English additions
Ps.-Cicero — 10th century, with additions 11th century, early; Continental European with English additions
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 35
Date
10th century, with additions 11th century, early
10th century
Language
Latin
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Contents
Decoration
Added sketches and scribblings on the flyleaf and fol. 54v (diagram). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 30)
Diagram.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
Collection of four Latin manuscripts
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 35
Summary
Collection of four Latin manuscripts:
10th cent. Calendarial rules, beg. 'Habuisti primitus' (fol. 2), with much repetition of 'Si vis scire', followed by the 'Prognostica temporum' of Bede (Migne, Patr. Lat., tom. xc, col. 951), here headed 'Incipit subputatio quam subputauit Hesdras propheta' (fol. 5)
10th cent. 'Questiones Albini [i.e. Alcuin] super Geneseos' (fol. 6), beg. 'Quomodo conuenit' (Migne, Patr. Lat., tom. c, col. 517). Two leaves have been cut out between fols. 43-4
Early 11th cent. 'Incipiunt scolia Graecorum glosarum' (fol. 44), beg. 'Apodixen ostentio', in double columns, for which see Nettleship, Contributions, p. xvi, followed by a more elaborate glossary, beg. 'Apocrofus igitur Latine dicitur secretatus' (fol. 44v), and miscellaneous glosses (fol. 53v). At fol. 54v is an astronomical note beg. 'Vesper est stella occidentalis'
Fol. 56: 10th cent. 'Veturio suo Cicero salutem. Collegi ea quae', the synonyms of Cicero, in six columns, to which has been added an extract from Aelfric's Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary printed at pp. 310-13 in Zupitza's edition (fol. 57). See further Archiv für... neueren Sprachen (1894), vol. 92, pp. 413-14
Date
Made up of four MSS. written in the 10th and 11th century, probably in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
58 Leaves
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Collection contents
Collection of four Latin manuscripts
