Maximianus — 12th century

Title

Maximianus — 12th century

Star time table, Form of exorcism — 11th century; France

Boethius — 11th century

Prudentius — 11th century

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 38

Place of origin

France

Date

12th century

11th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Physical extent

2 + 72 + 2 fol.

Binding

Old parchment binding.

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian from his widow in 1698.

Provenance

A Fleury provenance for the whole volume (as well as for part 2 only) has been suggested but is regarded as doubtful by M. Mostert ( The library of Fleury (1989), BF913-BF916).

Petri Danielis Aurel. (d. 1603)

Paul Petau (d. 1614): his pressmark G (?) 30 on fol. 1 (G. Constable in Consuetudines Benedictinae Variae, Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum 6 (1975), ex inf. E. Pellegrin, p. 3).

His son, Alexandre Petau (d. 1672): listed in the catalogue of his manuscripts, Leiden, Voss. lat. Q. 76, and in B. Montfaucon, Bibliotheca (1739) (as 1441: I.68 (Prudentius), 91 (Maximianus) (Constable, ex inf. E. Pellegrin, as above).

Nicolas Heinsius (d. 1681); no. 5 in the sale catalogue of his books.

Bought at the Heinsius sale (1683) by Edward Bernard (d. 1697)

Title

Collection of four Latin items

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 38

Summary

4 MSS., A-D:

A. 1. Fol. 1. Maximiani Elegiae.

2. Fol. 13. Four Latin poems: beg.

'Premia tot forme', 20 elegiac lines

'Lux oculis lux bbanda', 18 elegiac lines

'Quisquis ad excelsi', 23 hexameters

'Quod micat ornatum', 36 elegiac lines, but vv. 2-36 are on a later leaf in the hand of Petrus Daniel, who adds collations of the other poems with a different MS

B. 11th cent.:

Fol. 16. Antiphons (?) with musical notes

Fol. 19v. Instructions to the monk who woke the brethren in some monastery, showing at different seasons what stars were shining in certain windows of the great dormitory at the proper time for ringing the bell: beg. 'In Natale Domini cum Geminos quasi super dormitorium iacentes uideris et signum Orionis super Capellam Omnium Sanctorum.'

Fol. 24. 'Versus de Albuino', a kind of fish: beg. 'Veni frater albuine.'

Fol. 25. A form of Exorcization to be used at Prime, in Latin

C. 11th cent.:

Fol. 30. 'Anicii Manlii Seuerini Boetii ... Philosophie consolationis ...' libri duo, the poetical parts only, wanting I. 3. 9 (Emicat)--II. 2. 5 (retrahat manum), some leaves being lost

Fol. 56v. A rhythmical Latin poem of 25 lines, beg. 'Foebus abierat subtractis cursibus.'

D. 11th cent.:

Fol. 58. The 'Psychomachia' of Prudentius, wanting vv. 56, 88-89, 120-247, and mutilated in vv. 57-87, 90-117

Fol. 71v. A Latin poem of 30 hexameters, beg. 'O Dee cunctiparens.'

Fol. 72 contains a leaf of arithmetical computation (11th cent.)

Date

Written in the 11th and 12th century

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, in old parchment binding

Physical extent

74 Leaves

Custodial history

'Petri Danielis Aurel.' (d. 1603): owned also by Nicolas Heinsius (d. 1681) in the sale catalogue of whose books (tom. ii. p. 121) this MS. appears as no. 5. It is known that Daniel obtained many MSS. from the abbey of S. Benoit-sur-Loire or Fleury: so it is possible that art. 4 above may be found to connect the MS. with that abbey.