Add MS 38646

AURELIUS PRUDENTLUS, Peristephanon, with Latin glosses. Imperfect by loss of leaves at beginning and after ff. 1, 9, 28, 35. The hymns to SS. Hemeterius and Celedonius, and to St. Vincentius (nos. i, v, in Migne's text) are entirely wanting. Of the rest are wanting: The xviii Martyrs 1-14, 105-end; Fructuosus and Augurius 1-70; Hippolytus 200-end; Peter and Paul 1-58; Romanus 387-820; Natalis Domini 81-end; De Epiphania 1-134. The order of the hymns is that of Migne, Patrolog. Lat. lx. 277, save that Laurentius, Eulalia and Romanus (nos. ii, iii, x of Migne) come last, followed by Hymns xi and xii of the Cathemerinon (Migne, lix. 888-914) on the Nativity and the Epiphany. The MS. would therefore appear to belong to the class headed by the Paris MS. Bibl. Nat. lat. 8086, see J. Bergman, 'De codicum Prud. generibus et uirtute,' in Silzungsber. der k. Akad. der Wissenschaften (Vienna, 1908), phil.-hist. Classe, clvii, Abhandl. v. Vellum; ff. ii + 36. 7⁵/₈ in. x 5 in. Early XI cent. Initials of crude interlaced design, sometimes zoomorphic on a red ground. Some of the headings, e.g. Laurentius, Eulalia, Romanus, are outlined on a dark ground. Phillipps MS. 1338 (sale-cat. 1908, lot 634). Again sold at Sotheby's 20 Nov. 1912, lot 188.