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From George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 159-63:
'THREE MANUSCRIPTS not bound together before the time of Charles II, viz.:
A. Sedulius, poems, as follows:
1. 'Carmen pascale': edited by Hümer in Corpus Scriptt. Eccl. Lat., Vienna, x, 1885, p. 14. In six books, lib. vi beg. at 1. 295 of lib. v of the printed text. Colophon to lib. i 'Explicit primus liber de miraculis antiquorum patrum. Incipit secundus de miraculis noui testamenti', libb. iii-vi being similarly styled 'libri ii-v noui testamenti'; but the final colophon is 'Finit liber quartus (sic) Sedulii'. The MS. was not used by Hümer for the Vienna edition, but the text seems to resemble the Basel MS. (his A). There are a few glosses, sometimes giving a better reading than the text (e.g. v. 41, 'parua', gloss 'quauis'). A few are in Anglo-Saxon (e.g. ff. 5, 25, 28). Dots are often put to mark words which are to be construed together. Preface beg. 'Paschales quicumque dapes conuiua requiris'; text, 'Cum sua gentiles studeant figmenta poete'. f. 1.
2. 'Versus de laude Christi' (with colophon Finit dominicum carmen Sedulii'): fifty-five elegiac couplets, in each of which, except the first, the last half of the pentameter repeats the first half of the hexameter. Printed ib. p. 155, as Hymnus i. Beg. 'Cantemus, socii, domino cantemus honorem'. f. 32 b.
3. 'Incipiunt versus Liberati scholastici de Sedulio'. two double acrostics (Sedulius antistes), printed ib. p. 307. Beg. 'Sedulius domini per culta noualia pergenS', and 'Sedulius Christi miracula uersibus edenS'. Other MSS. give the author's name as Bellesarius scholasticus, for which Homer proposes Liberius Bellesarius. f. 34 b.
Vellum ; ff. 35. 101/4 in. x 61/4 in. Written in good X cent. minuscules of foreign type, but with ornamental initials of English character in colours. See pl. 90 a. Initial letters of lines in red, standing slightly away from the text. Marginal sub-headings in red are given in lib. i of art. i, but afterwards the divisions are marked. in the margin by kp. (capitulum). Six or more stops (commas and full-stops alternately, or semicolons) are often added at the end of a line. Gatherings of 8 leaves. Sec. fol. 'Parcite puluerei'. Old Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8613.
B. Persius, Satirae, with several works of Bede, collections in prose and verse, &c. The original makeup of artt. 4-64 can hardly be ascertained with certainty and seems to have been changed at an early date, but the whole section probably occurs together in the cat. of 1666 (see below). Contents:
4. Fragment of an anonymous devotional poem in which the refrain '[Me ?] releuans miscrum, rex regum, respice lapsum', alternating with '[Me] releues miserum, rex caeli, respice lapsum', is followed regularly by a stanza of six lines (the third and sixth lines an adonius, the others hexameters). The text, especially on the verso (originally an outside leaf ?), is very much rubbed and illegible, but the colophon in rustic capitals can be partly made out 'Expliciunt pauci (?) uersiculi cuiusdam . . . sco. . Martini . . .' &c. f. 36.
Art. 4 is a single leaf (moth cent.) ; artt. 5-6 are five gatherings of 8 leaves (v10). Signatures none or erased Art. 5 (originally a flyleaf ?) is in an early 10th cent. band, art. 6 in a 9th cent. hand.
5. Introductory note to the following article. Beg. 'De statu temporum et de cursu et fine intuendum'; ends 'presentia simul'. A prayer in a different hand is added at the end. f. 37.
6. ' Incipit praefatio Bedae presbyteri': the treatise De temporum ratione (Migne, Patr. Lat. XC. 293). Cap. xv, de mensibus Anglorum, is omitted (the MS. being probably intended for French use), but is added in a late 10th cent. hand on an inserted leaf (f. 64). Preface beg. 'De natura rerum et ratione temporum'; text, 'De temporum ratione domino iuuante dicturi'. Ends in cap. xxviii (Migne's xxix, ib. 426 c), 'refundere solent', with a few words following erased. f. 38.
Artt. 7-14 are one gathering of 8 leaves with signature O, and were perhaps intended to follow after artt. 16-63 (see below).
7. Symposius, Aenigmata (cf. 12 C. XXIII, art. 3, and art. 65 below). Imperf. at beg., wanting tristichs 1-39 of Migne (vii. 289) and Riese (Anth. Lat., Teubner Ser., i, p. 187, no. 286; cf. Bahrens, Poetae Lat. Minores, iv, p. 364). No. 100 of Migne (96 of Riese) is not included, but no. 77 (78 of Riese) occurs twice. Both text and order differ from 12 C. XXIII. No glosses, but a few variant readings are interlined. Beg. 'Grande mihi caput est, intus sunt membra minuta'. f. 79.
8. 'Incipit epythalamium a sancto Paulino dictum in Iulianum filium epyci memoris et Titiam clarissimam faeminam uxorem eius'; edited from this MS. and one at Paris (Bibl. Nat. fonds lat. 8094) in Hartel's edition (Corpus Scriptt. Eccl. Lat. xl, p. 238) of the works of Paulinus, Bishop of Nola 409-431. Incomplete, ending at 1. 65. Beg. 'Concordes animae casto sociantur amore'. f. 82.
9. 'Versus de singulis mensibus': ecloga ii of Ausonius (D. Magni Ausonii Opuscula, ed. Schenkl, Mon. Germ. Hist., Auctores Antiquissimi, v, p. 10). Collated for Schenkl's edition. Beg. 'Primus Romanas ordiris, lane, kalendas'. f. 83 b.
10. 'Item versus de numero dierum singulorum mensium'; anonymous, printed by Riese, no. 394, Bährens, i, p. 205. Beg. 'Dira patet Iani Romanis ianua bellis'. f. 83 b.
11. 'Tetrasticon autenticum de singulis mensibus': a quatrain on each month (Riese, no. 395, Bährens, i, p. 206). Beg. 'Hic Iani mensis sacer est; en, aspice ut aris'. f. 84.
12. 'Versus de duodecim signis': twelve lines printed among the doubtful works of Bede (Migne, xciv. 637), but really from Cicero's Aratea, ll. 320-331 (Bährens, i, p. 21). Beg. 'Primus adest aries obscura (sic) lumine labens'. f. 85.
13. Glossary of Greek words occurring in the prefaces and commentaries of S. Jerome for the books of the Old Testament. A later work on a similar plan is in Add. MS. 35091, f. 115. Beg. 'Genesis. id est compositionem'. A few miscellaneous glosses are prefixed (f. 85), beg. 'Opos Grece Latine cauerna, hinc opobalsamum cauernatim fluens'. f. 85 b.
14. 'De generibus uocum': an alphabetical table of verbs expressing the sounds made by animals, from the Liber de septenario et de metris printed as the work of Aldhelm in Mai, Auctt. Class. v, p. 569, Migne, lxxxix. 219 D. Beg. 'Apes abizant ucl bombizant'. f. 86 b.
Artt. 15-44 and 48-63 (ff. 85-102, 111-198) are a series of gatherings of 8 leaves, with continuous signatures in Greek letters A-M. Artt. 48-63 have also another signature i-viiii.
15. 'Incipiunt uersus Bedae de dic iudicii' (Migne, xciv. 633). Lines 22-73 and 11. 74-125 of Migne's text are transposed (11. 76-78 precede 11. 74, 75). Ends with 1. 154, 'gaudere beatis'. There are many interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin. Beg. 'Inter florigeras foecundi cespitis herbas'. f. 87.
16. 'Colmano versus in Colmanurn perheriles Scottigena ficti patrie cupidum et remeantem': thirty-seven hexameters addressed by Colman, an Irish exile, to a younger compatriot of the same name (possibly the Bishop of Lindisfarne 661-668), who was returning to Ireland. Printed by Kuno Meyer in tnu, iii, pt. ii (1907), p. 186. Beg. 'Dum subito properas dulces inuisereterras'. f. 89 b.
17. 'Item uersus': twenty-four hexameters on contempt of the world. Beg. 'Non uno semper concurrunt ordine fratres'. f. 90 b.
18. 'De quodam cum cruribus obliquis nato, Virgilius': two elegiac couplets, printed from this MS. by Riese, no. 673, Bahrens, iv, no. 130. Beg. 'En dat aperturam crurum fluxura (sic) recuruam'. f. 90 b.
19. 'Diffinitio philosophiae': a brief tract on philosophy and its parts, virtually, it would seem, the work of Alcuin, corresponding to part of his dialogues De rhetorica et uirtutibus and De dialectica (Migne, ci.
943-952), but not in dialogue form. Beg. 'Philosophia est inquisitio rerum humanarum diuinarumque cognitio'; ends 'haec seruanti, et laus apud deum'. f. 91.
20. 'Collectum carptim ex historia ecclesiastica de Porphirio': philosophical prolegomena probably to Porphyrius' Isagoge. In part taken from Boethius. Beg. 'Porphirius qui plures libros scripsit Grecus Tyrius fuit'. f. 93.
21. 'Qualiter unusquisque Christianus fidelis ad deum se subiungere debeat et quomodo eum credat esse': a sort of creed or declaration of the attributes of God, perhaps compiled from the Moralia of Gregory the Great. Beg. 'Cunctis fidelibus necesse est ut credendo subiungantur deo'; ends 'noctisque uariatur, qui regnat in secula seculorum. amen'. f. 96 b.
22. Thirteen lines of verse, perhaps to be divided thus: (a) Distich, 'Psiptacus a uobis aliorum nomina discam; Hoc didici per me dicere Caesar aue' (Martial, xiv. 73);-
(b) Distich, 'Si famis atque sitis diram uis noscere penam, Esto palatinus, hine macelentus eris';-(c) Quatrain beg. 'Porrigo quid mihi dant peregrino hec equora munus'; -(d) Five single lines, the fourth a pentameter. Beg. 'At proprius (sic) spectes lacrimosa poemata puppi'. f. 97.
23. 'Ingenuitas clericorum de seruili conditione': formula for manumission by an abbot of a famulus of his monastery who is ordained. The formula, which gives him Roman citizenship, corresponds with no. 44 of the Formulae Salicae Merkelianae in Monum. Germ., Legum Sectio, v (1886), p. 257; cf. also a charter of Eginhard in Migne, civ. 603. Beg. 'Auctoritas ecclesiastica patenter admonet'. f. 97 b.
24. 'De festuca': a short etymological note. Beg. 'Fistucam multi uoluerunt dici'. f. 98.
25. Five elegiac couplets of unknown authorship, viz.: -(a) 'De homine pocta dicit' (Riese, note to no. 641). Beg. 'Turpe pecus mutilum, turpis sine gramine campus'.-(b) 'Monacus dixit', beg. 'Ingenium quondam fuerat pretiosius auro';-(c) 'Ennius', beg. 'Ipse licet uenias Musis comitatus Homerus';-(d) 'Cato poeta', also attributed to Martial and printed as ll. 1, 7 of a poem in nine lines (Bährens, iv, p. 116, cf. art. 37, below), beg. 'Rure morans quid agam respondi pauca rogatus';-(e) 'Virgilius', printed by Bährens, iv, p. 158. Beg. 'Anguis aper iuuenis pereunt ui uulnere morsu. f. 98.
26. Various philological notes. Beg. 'Mathematicus secundum diuinitatem'. f. 98.
27. 'In fine xi libri Augustini de ciuitate dei isti uersus habentur scripti': five lines beg. 'Augustine, tonas diuino fulmine linguae'. Printed by Bährens in Rhein. Museum, xxxi, p. 94. One MS. in which they occur is the Paris MS. Ste. Geneviève 2757, but it is of much later date (14th cent.). f. 98 b.
28. 'De senectute imitanda. Sanctus Hieronimus in epistola ad Nepotianum', from ep. lii, Migne, xxii. 528- 529. Beg. 'Omnes poene uirtutes corporis'; ends 'oratio fluxerit'. f. 98 b.
29. 'Versus de Diogene': elegiac couplets, printed in the works of Ausonius (Mon. Germ. Hist.) as (a) Epitaphium xxix, three couplets beg. 'Dic canis hic cuius tumulus canis hoc canis inquit';-(b) Epigramma xlix, two couplets beg. 'Pare (sc. Pera) polenta trifon baculus cibus arta supellex';-(c) Epigr. 1, three couplets beg. 'Effigiem rex Xerse tuam ditissime regum'. f. 99.
30. 'De Cherubin et Seraphin. Hieronimus': a note on the spellings with n and m, &c., followed by other etymological notes. f. 99.
31. Two elegiac couplets, (a) 'De Faba', beg. 'Disce fabam sollers pallentem sumere cantor'; and (b) 'Ad Ioseph', beg. 'Non aliter quam nos Ioseph decantat et ipse'. f. 99.
32. Six elegiac couplets, beg. 'Climata perspicuis loetis decorata sigillis'. f. 99 b.
33. 'Virgilius de sua nutrice' (in the other margin 'Tetrasthicon de quadam anu quae iiii dumtaxat dentes fertur habuisse'), really Martial, i. 19 (cf. 7 D. I, art. 2 i). Beg. 'Quatuor, ut memini, fuerant tibi, Delia, dentes'. f. 99 b.
34. 'Item idem. De imagine et sonino': two couplets of unknown authorship (Riese, no. 674, Bährens, iv, 118). Beg. 'Pulchra comis annisque decens et can. didauultu'. f. 99 b.
35. 'De caluo a culice obuiato': six hexameters (Riese, note to no. 673). Beg. 'Stridula musca uolans caluum conspexit euntem', f. 99 b.
36. 'Fabula': the myth of the Minotaur, taken from Servius on Virgil, Aen. vi. 14. Beg. 'Daedalus ut fama est (&c.) indicato a sole adulterio'; ends 'uelorum pandimusalas'. Followed immediately (f. 100 b) by extracts from S. Isidore, Etymologiae, xv, cap. 2 (Migne, lxxxii.
529), on Labyrinthus, Theatrum, Amphitheatrum, and Gymnasium, beg. 'Laberintus est perplexis parietibus aedificium'. f. 100.
37. 'Exempla Auieni' (in marg. 'Versus Auieni'): the first seven lines of the epigram, of unknown authorship, printed by Bahrens, iv, p. 117, and in Holder's ed. of Avienus (1887), p. 173 (cf. art. 25 d, above). Beg. 'Rure morans quid agam respondi pauca rogatus'. f. 101.
38. 'Isti iiii. uersus respiciunt fabulae supra scripte maxime uero Icaro': two elegiac couplets of unknown authorship, reciprocating somewhat in the same way as Sedulius' hymn (see above, art.2). Printed by Bährens, iii, p. 169. Beg. 'Nereides freta sic uerrentes caerula tranant'. At the foot is a note on 'stipulatio'. f. 101.
39. 'Isti sunt uersus beati Ambrosii episcopi de ternarii excellentia numeri, quos ad confirmationem trinae mersionis suae epistolae inserere placuit lita fingens deleted]': fourteen verses, only known from Alcuin, ep. xciii (Dümmler, Mon. Alc.), where they are quoted as in this rubric. Beg. 'Omnia trina uigent sub maiestate tonantis'. f. 101 b.
40. 'Nota de tribus horis diei' and 'De vii. partibus noctis': extracts from Isidore's Etymol., v, capp. 30, 31. Beg. 'Partes diei sunt tres, mane meridies et suprema'. f. 101 b.
41. 'Versus Virgilii de se et Homero': epigram of unknown authorship (Riese, no. 788, Bahrens, iv, p. 188). Beg. 'Meonium quisquis Romanus nescit Omerum'. f. 102 b.
42. 'Mentio duodecim uersuum precipuarum uirtu. tum Herculis siue EPTATON ipsius': Ausonius, Monosticha de aerumnis Herculis (Mon. Germ. ed. p. 153, Riese, no. 641). Beg. 'Prima Cleomei (sic) tolerata acrumnaleonis'. f. 102 b.
43. 'Maronis': the distich, of unknown authorship, Printed by Riese, no. 256, Bährens, iv, p. 156. Beg. 'Nocte pluit tota, redeunt spectacula mane'. f. 102 b.
44. 'Item': lines of unknown authorship (Riese, no. 257, Bährens, iv, p. 156). Beg. 'Hos ego uersicuios feci, tulit alter honorem'. The original distich is extended, as in the Paris MS. 8069, by the line 'Sic uos non uobis uellera fertis oues' (marked in the margin 'Aemulus'), to which the later copies add two more. At the end is a note, from Vitruvius, on bitumen. f. 102 b.
Artt. 45-47, two gatherings of 4 leaves, interposed between. B. and , are probably early additions. The first page of the first gathering (f. 103) is blank, except for later scribbling.
45. 'Incipit prologus in librum monstrorum': a treatise printed, but without the preface, in Jules Berger de Xivrey's Traditions tératologiques, Paris, 1836, p. 4. Imperf at the end, ending with cap. xxxi (p. 117). Preface beg. 'De occulto orbis situ rogasti et si tanta monstrorum genera credenda essent'; text, 'Primo namque de is ad ortum sermo prorupit'. The third paragraph mentions the giant 'rex Huiglaucus' (Glaucus in the table of capitula prefixed), the Hygelac of Beowulf (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 3). f. 103 b.
46. Diagram showing the names of the winds. f. 106 b.
47. 'Incipiunt quasdam (sic) fabulx de diuersis libris': mythological notes on the labours of Hercules and other matters. Beg. 'Achelous cum proter (sic) Deianiram pelicem'; ends 'uescitur ranis'. f. 107.
48. 'Persii Flacci satirarum liber incipit': a text which frequently agrees with the few best MSS. of Persius against the majority of the inferior class. It is occasionally quoted by O. Jahn (1843) from collations by Richard Bentley printed in the Classical Journal, London, 1818, xviii. 62, where it is described as 'annorum 300', presumably a misprint for 8oo. In Bernard's Catalogus the MS. is said to have been used by [Isaac] Casaubon, but the statement needs verification. Sat. iv, though provided with a rubric, is numbered as part of sat. iii, and the colophon at the end of sat. vi is 'Explicit liber Persii satirici cum ipsa quinta satira'. f. 111.
49. 'Versus Sybillae de die iuditii': the usual 27 verses on the prophecy of the Erythraean sibyl (Augustine, De Civ. Dei, xviii. 23), cf. Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 190. The Greek initials of the original acrostic are given in the margin and an explanatory note at the end. There are a few interlinear glosses. Beg. 'Iuditii signum tellus sudore madescet'. f. 125.
50. 'Versus de caelestibus signis Prisciani', of uncertain authorship (Riese, Anth. Lat. no. 679, Bährens, v, p. 351). The first three lines are provided with neums. Beg, 'Ad borcae partes arcti uertuntur et anguis'. f. 125 b.
51. 'Versus Traiani imperatoris', better attributed to Hadrian (Riese, no. 392, Bahrens, iv, p. iii). Beg. 'Ut belli sonuere tubae uiolenta peremit'. Interlinear glosses. f. 125 b.
52. Verses on the dies Aegyptiaci, of uncertain authorship (Riese, no. 736, ll. 7-18, Bährens, v, p. 354). Marginal prose explanation. Beg. 'Iani prima dies et septima fine tenetur'. f. 126.
53. Additional verses on phlebotomy, eight hexameters addressed to Walannus, of unknown authorship. A marginal note says 'Macer arte medicinali a Catone comendatus ucl potius Hipocras ab omnibus probatus hos prescriptos uersus [art. 52] mensium et dierum ad tutelam hominum descripsisse estimantur (sic), quos hic etiam tangit a uersificatore esse compositos'. Beg. 'Versibus expressit prudens hoc uersificator'. f. 126.
54. 'Figurae et nomina Grecarum litterarum cum significatione numerorum', beg. 'i. Mia. A. Alfa. ii. dia. B. Beta'. f. 126.
55. On the signs of the zodiac, twelve verses of Ausonius (Riese, no. 640, Mon. Germ. Hist., Auctt. Antiquissimi, v, p. 13). Arranged to begin with April, 'Respicis Aprilis aries Frixee kalendas'. f. 126 b.
56. Six lines on the same from the Carmina duodecim sapientum (Riese, no. 617, Bahrens, iv, p. 44). Beg. 'Signorum primus aries et taurus et una'. f. 126 b.
57. Eight lines on Cicero, from the same, a cento arranged thus (Riese, nos. 605-608, Bährens, iv, pp. 140, 141), ll. 31, 32, 13, 14, 25, 22, 15, 16. Beg. 'Tullius Arpinas ex ordine natus equestri'. f. 126 b.
58. 'Incipit vita Persii Flacci de commentario Probi Valerii sublata' (cf. 15 B. XVIII, f. 60 b). Interlinear gloss. Beg. 'Aulus Persius Flaccus natus est pridie nonas Decembris'. Colophon, 'Explicit uita Persii'. f. 127.
59. 'Incipit annotatio': two short extracts, viz.:-(a) On satire, printed in Jahn's edition, p. 241, 'Satyre proprium est-significet';-(b) On the introductory coliambics, not in Jahn. Beg. 'In hac prefatione dicit se non poctam sed EMIEN esse'. f. 128.
60. 'Annei Cornuti comentariorum liber in Flacei Persii satyrarum libro': the usual Persius scholia to which this name is traditionally attached, as to those on Juvenal, either from a false attribution to Persius' contemporary L. Annaeus Cornutus or from confusion with a late commentator of the name of Cornutus (cf. 15 B. XVIII). Printed in Jahn's edition, p. 245. Beg. 'Nec fonte labra prolui caballino TKPINHN quod et Isiodus'. A few interlinear various readings. Many marginal notes have been inserted by a late 16th cent. hand. f. 128.
61. Colophon in verse, as follows:-
'Aequora qui ponti lembo transcurrere nauta Adgreditur, patiens discit adesse mali. Ast ubi litorcas tandem calcabit harenas, Gratior arridens plaudit ei requies. Cursu quique putat auras preuertere laxas Insignis palma seu phaleris sonipes Continuet uastos perplexim concitus orbes, Sudoris tandem qugrit audire (sic) quiem. Boa operans sulcos regidum (sic) cum traxit aratrum Exemptus loro pignore pascit ouat. Pagina per cuius calamos artusque recurrit Fessus scriba celer fine uolet fruier. Finalis qui causa deus nec fine tenendus Existis rerum finis et ipse simul, Fac non finiri scriptorem fine sinistro Salues in finem sed precor incolomem'. f. 195b.
62. Theological epistle in thirty-five hexameters. Beg. 'Musa melos resona paulo maiora canendo Ut pan-, gam Christo laudes et carmen amico'. f. 196.
63. 'Quid proprium ceroma': an anonymous epistle of a philological nature, probably commenting on ep. lvii of S. Jerome (Migne, lvii. 578). Printed by Baluze, Miscellanea, lib. iv, p. 417 (Lucca ed. iii. 31, reprinted by Migne, xcvi. 1385) from a Colbert MS. (now Bibl. Nat. fonds lat. 8070), which also contains Persius and scholia and is cited for Persius by Jahn, who dates it 11th cent., as P3 (in the life of Persius P2). It gives the name of the person addressed, which does not appear here, as Fredilo. Beg. 'Questiunculam mihi datam a uestra reuerentia'; ends 'iuste dampnari'. f. 196b.
The last page (f. 198 b) of gathering .M. contains a circular diagram of the habitable and uninhabitable zones of the world and some miscellancous scribbling. Art. 64 is a single leaf, which may have been in the binding of artt. 4-63.
64. Fragment of a 13th cent. mortuary-roll for two or more persons whose names, and that of their monastery, are lost. The tituli on the recto are those
of the Friars Preachers and Friars Minor of Châlons-sur- Marne, dated Sat. after Ascension; on the verso those of S. Laurentius in Leonibus (Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure), b. Maria de Insula Dei (Praemonstratensian Nunnery of L'Île-Dieu, Eure), b. Maria Mortuimaris (Mortemeren-Lions), and b. Maria Fontis Gerardi (Fontaine- Guérard, Eure). The last two are both Cistercian houses near Rouen, and the entries are dated Fri. before S. Mary Magdalene, without year. f. 199.
Vellum; ff. 164 (36-199). 101/4 in. x 61/4 in. IX (art. 6) and X centt. Caroline minuscules. The rough breathing ( ) occurs occasionally in place of h (ff. 98, 103 b, 134 b). For gatherings see above. See pl. 90 b, c. Sec. fol. 'sane uel illud'. Inscriptions of the Abbey of S. Remi at Reims occur at f. 106, 'Liber sancti Remigii, qui ei abstulerit anatema sit' (10th cent.), and f. 103 b, 'Liber sancti Remigii Remensis vol. cc. et v.' (12th cent.), these being both on the inserted gathering (ff. 103-106), and the same 12th cent. inscription in the same hand on f. 38. Cat. of 1666, f. 20; CMA. 8517 (latter part).
C. Poems of Symposius and S. Boniface, a separate MS. of later date (11th cent.) on larger vellum. Marginal notes in Patrick Young's hand. Contents.- 65. 'Enigmata Simphosii' (so colophon); cf. art. 7, above, with which, and with 12 C. XXIII, P. Young collates in the margin. Imperf. at beginning, comprising nos. 18-100 of Riese and Bahrens (67 follows 68 and 61 follows 100), with an additional tristich on Nix (beg. 'Candida sidereis delabor nubibus atris) at the end. f. 200.
66. 'Enigmata Bonefatii episcopi quc misit sorori sue'. acrostic verses by S. Boniface (the Englishman Winfrid), apostle of Germany, Archbishop of Mainz 746-754. First printed from this imperfect MS. by Giles, Bonifacii Opera (repr. Migne, lxxxix. 887). Edited in a com. plete form by Dümmler, Poetae Aevi Carolini (Mon. Germ. Hist.), i. 1. The scribe has not distinguished the first acrostic (in which Caritas is read up and down in alternate lines) from the prologue. The end of the last virtue (Virginitas ait) is lost, from l. 5, and the whole of the ten vices. Prologue beg. 'Aurea nam decem transmisi poma sorori'; acrostics, 'Cernere quis poterit numero aut quis calculus equat'. f. 204.
Vellum; ff. 6 (200-205). 101/4 in. x 7 in. XI cent. One incornplete gathering. Sec fol. 'Quattuor insignis'. Not in cat.of 1666 ?; CMA. 8643.
includes:
- f. 126 Alphabet: Figurae et nomina graecarum litterarum cum significatione numerarum: 10th cent.'
