Pseudo-Augustine, Liber de vita Christiana. Decoration: Large foliate initial in colours and gold, with foliate extensions into the margins, at the beginning of the text (f. 129r).
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text (ff. 1r-47r, 63v-264r). The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between St. Isidore and Braulio Bishop o...
Astronomical tables (2nd half of the 9th century) with added notated proses 'Psallat unus' and 'Gloriosa dies adest' (f. 5r) and notated antiphons and responsories for the Office of St Denis (f. 5v-6r). Musical notation: neumes, northern France, 10th century (ff. 5v-6r).
Collection of four works by Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk of Wearmouth–Jarrow: Bede, De natura rerum (ff. 6r-12r); Bede, De Temporibus (ff. 12v-17v); Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum (ff. 17v-19v); Bede, De temporum ratione, chapter 29 (ff. 19v-21r) with added with calendrical notes (ff. 21r-21v) and...
Lunar and calendrical notes and astronomical tables
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Lunar and calendrical notes and astronomical tables including: a table entitled 'Cursus lunae per XII signa' (f. 22r) astronomical calendar with added notes, 10th century (ff. 22r-28r); Tables of the 19-year Metonic cycle from 532 to 1057, with additions from 1058 to 1272, including additional n...
Bede, De temporum ratione. Decoration: Display script 'Praefatio libri De Temporibis' in red (f. 41r). Initial in brown ink with penwork decoration, at the beginning of the table of contents (f. 41v). Initials in brown ink some with reserved designs (e. g. ff. 81r, 86r). Rubrics in red or brow...
Bede, In Regum librum xxx quaestiones, preceded by the letter to Nocthelm
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Bede, In Regum librum xxx quaestiones, preceded by the letter to Nocthelm (ff. 129r-129v). Decoration: Display script in red capital letters 'Incipit praefatio Bedae in questionibus regum'. Initial in brown ink with a foliated penwork decoration at the beginning of the text (f. 129r). Initials...
Collection of verse relating to the calendar including 'Dira patet Jani' (f. 139v), for which see Cordoliani 1966; and a circular diagram of winds (f. 140v). Decoration: Initials and rubric in oxidised red.