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Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199

Record Id:

041-003320043

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100034618186.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060328563.0x000002

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199

Title:

Bede, De temporum ratione; A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit ceroma?

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 37r-v: An anonymous preface on Bede's De temporum ratione.

ff. 38r-39r: Preface of De temporum ratione.

ff. 39r-40v: Table of chapters for the De temporum ratione.

ff. 40v-78v: Bede, De temporum ratione (imperfect, ends at chapter 29).

ff. 79r-102v: A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts including poems by Ausonius, Martial and Symposius, Enigmata (imperfect), Virgil and others; a glossary of Greek words in the prefaces and commentaries of St Jerome on the books of the Old Testament (f. 85v) and Bede's De die iudicii with numerous marginal and interlinear Latin glosses throughout (ff. 87-89v).

ff. 103v-105v: Liber monstruorum de diversis generibus (Book of monsters of various kind).

ff. 107r-110v: Numerous notes by a same 10th-century hand on mythology particularly on the labours of Hercules.

ff. 111r-124v: Persius, Saturae.

ff. 125r-126v: Sibylline verses, Iudicii signum including in margin the names and shapes of the Greek letters, with the numbers each signifies (f. 126r).

ff. 127r-128r: Life of Persius (attributed to Probus).

ff. 128r-196v: Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius with a versified colophon (ff. 195v-196v) and numerous modern glosses in margin.

ff.196v: Lupus of Ferrières, the philological epistle Quid sit ceroma?

Decoration:

Two circular ink diagrams in brown and red ink, one of the winds (f. 106v), and one of the habitable and uninhabitable zones of the world (f. 198v). Initial in red and brown with decoration and text inside (f. 40v). Rubric, numbers and capitals in table of contents in red (ff. 39r-40r). Initials in red or brown. Quire signatures highlighted in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-001614761
041-003320043

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 B XIX : Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection…

Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199 : Bede, De temporum ratione; A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses;…

Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1258]/040-001614761[0005]/041-003320043

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0875

End Date:

0899

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 9th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 270 x 195 mm (text space: 205 x 110 mm)

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Custodial History:

Origin: Reims, Northeastern France.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St Remi, Reims: inscribed, 10th-century: 'Liber sancti Remigii, qui ei abstulerit anatema sit' (f. 106), and late 12th-century, 'Liber sancti Remigii Remensis vol. cc. et v.' (ff. 38r and 103v).

Added notes, 11th and 12th centuries (ff. 103r; 198v).

Added modern notes, 16th century (ff. 128r-195r).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Subjects:

Classical Literature
Science

Places:

Reims, France