A Calendar, compotus, Limburger Monatsregeln; Utrecht, c. 1252 with additions. B Glossaries; western Germany, mid-13th century

Title

A Calendar, compotus, Limburger Monatsregeln; Utrecht, c. 1252 with additions. B Glossaries; western Germany, mid-13th century

Shelfmark

MS. Junius 83

Place of origin

Dutch, Utrecht, Cistercian nunnery of St Servatius (St Servaes) (?)

Germany, West

Date

additions, 13th century, second half and 14th century, first half

c. 1252;

13th century, middle

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Latin

Middle Low German

Old High German (ca. 750-1050)

Contents

Physical extent

iv + 71 + iii folios (i-iv, 1–74)

Binding

Post-1600: 17th-century (?) binding of blind-tooled calf over pasteboards.

Acquisition

Received by the Bodleian by 1677

Provenance

Both parts together by c. 1300 (notes in the same hand on fols. 1r, 71v), presumably at the Cistercian nunnery of St Servatius (St Servaes) in Utrecht; certainly there by the sixteenth century: Den Joffrau van Nienroden costerin van sinte Servaes, 16th century, fol. 71v, identified by W. Braekman and M. Gysseling as Beatrice van Nienroden of the Cistercian nunnery of St Servaes, Utrecht

Sum Boxhornij, 17th century, fol. 1r: Hendrik Boxhorn, -1631

Franciscus Junius, 1589–1677

Title

Collection of two Latin, Middle High German and Middle Low German items

Shelfmark

MS. Junius 83

Summary

A. After 1270. Kalendarial notes:

'Incipit explicatio tabule que pancronos appellatur, id est omnium temporum. Primo considerandus est aureus numerus presentis anni quotus sit...' (fol. 1v)

Fol. 4. a Calendar probably of the diocese of Liège and perhaps of the Dominican convent of Ruremonde (translation of st. Servatius, June 7

Robert [Gruthuysen], abbot of Clairvaux, Dominic, anniversary of king Louis also occur) with 14th-cent. additions in Low German, hence printed by R. Priebsch, Deutsche Hss. in England, pp. 314-15

At fol. 10 are Latin proverbs relating to the weather, from Bede, beg. 'Si fuerint kalende Januarii die dominica hyemps bona erit', and at fol. 10v tables for finding movable feasts including (fol. 11v) Easter, 1252-1783

B. Late 12th century:

'Incipit libellus diversarum glosarum in vetus et novum testamentum. Omnes divine auctoritatis libri' (fol. 20)

Fol. 49v. a glossary, headed 'Nomenclator' by Junius, beg. 'Homo. Vir. Mulier. Femina'

The old pagination is by Francis Junius, who copied these glosses in Ms. Junius 116b as 'glossarium D' and cited them frequently in his Observationes in Willerami paraphrasin and his Glossarium Gothicum.

Date

Made up of two MSS. written (A) after 1270 in the diocese of Liège, and (B) late in the 12th cent. in Germany

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Low German

Latin

Multiple languages

Physical facet

On parchment, binding, blind-tooled brown leather, 17th-cent. work, rebacked, with illuminated initials

Physical extent

74 Leaves

Custodial history

This volume, together with MS. Junius 25, belonged to Henry Boxhorn, the Dutch theologian (d. at Leyden, 1631). On fol. 1 is 'invoco patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum' (14th cent.), and 'Sum Boxhornii' (17th cent.). The book apparently belonged, about 1600, to the wife of the sexton of s. Servetius [? at Maestricht]. 'Den Joffrau van Niewroden costerin van sinte Servaes' (fol. 71v].