Rabanus Maurus, De computo; Germany, Fulda, 9th century, second quarter

Title

Rabanus Maurus, De computo; Germany, Fulda, 9th century, second quarter

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 353

Place of origin

Germany, Fulda

Date

9th century (after 820; before 836?)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment, with many flaws

Physical extent

ii + 55 + ii

Hands

Caroline minuscule. Analysed in detail by Stevens, who differentiates ‘three mature Fulda hands … two mature non-Fulda hands … and six other novices’. He shows, from the use of some Insular forms and some misreadings, that the exemplar was written in Insular script.

Decoration

None.

Binding

Italian 18th-century (before 1761) plain undecorated parchment over pasteboards, with overlapping fore-edges. The endpapers block printed with reserved foliate designs on a ground of red, blue, and yellow. The spine with a red leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals ‘IUVEBAN | PECCAT. | MACH. MO | DE COMP | COD. M’: the first word is a misreading of the prologue incipit, in which Hrabanus’s name has an ‘ra’ ligature.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Stevens (who had advice from Bernhard Bischoff, and compared the script to several dated examples, including charters in the Fulda Cartulary) dated the MS. to ‘the decade before A.D. 836’; Bischoff seems to have accepted this: Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, II: Laon–Paderborn (Wiesbaden, 2004), p. 362 no. 3790: ‘Fulda, spätestens 836’.

Jacopo Soranzo, -1761; the 4th item under no. 744 in the catalogue of his library; Stevens records that traces of a Soranzo shelfmark, no longer present, were still visible on the lower spine.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Rabanus Maurus, De computo

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 353

Date

1678

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume