Calendrical tables and treatises, Hymns, Medical recipes, Lectionary — 10th century, late – 11th century, first quarter (fols. 10–17: 993 (?)); French (?)

Title

Calendrical tables and treatises, Hymns, Medical recipes, Lectionary — 10th century, late – 11th century, first quarter (fols. 10–17: 993 (?)); French (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 232

Place of origin

French (?)

Date

10th century, late – 11th century, first quarter (fols. 10–17: 993 (?))

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 28 leaves

Decoration

Coloured initials, rubrics.

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian from his widow, 1698.

Provenance

fol. 16: Si uis nosse quot sint anni ab incarnacione domini nostri iesu christi....dcccc.tixcta.iiiᵉ. Isti sunt anni ab incarnacione domini nostri iesu christi anno presenti.

The Easter table on fol. 2, to judge by added signs over the figures up to the year 1025, was in use during the lunar cycle 1007–1025.

Edward Bernard, 1638–1697.

Title

Made up of several Latin pieces

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 232

Summary

Made up of several pieces:

Fol. 1, 3v, 10, 21. Tables and short treatises connected with the Ecclesiastical Calendar, in Latin, chiefly written in the 11th century. The calculation on fol. 8v was composed in A.D. 863. fols. 10r-17v were written apparently in A.D. 993.

Fol. 3r, 9v. On two blank pages of the above treatises are written in two hands of the 12th century some Latin hymns, with musical notes.

Fol. 18. Medicinal recipes, in a hand of about A.D. 900: with additions in a somewhat later writing. On fol. 21v-22r are forms of manumission and betrothal, written early in the 10th century, with traces of a Merovingian (?) hand.

Fol. 25. A fly-leaf from an 11th century Latin Lectionary, containing Acts xx. 7 (Paulus disputabat)--12 end, xxviii. 1--end?, in part almost illegible.

Date

Written in the 10th and 11th centuries, probably in France

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

28 Leaves