MS. Lyell 56
Honorius Augustodunensis
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Partly pr. PL 172 col. 813–1104 from an imperfect MS: the missing pieces (found on fol. 153v–162v in our MS.) pr. J. Kelle, ‘Untersuchungen über das Spec. Eccles. des Honorius’, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phil.-Hist. Kl. 145 (1902), 2–19.
At the end of the Speculum (fol. 166–167v) is an apparently unpublished piece:
An extra piece on an inserted leaf (fol. 161r)
Pr. Kelle, op. cit., p. 18 n. from MS. St. Florian xi. 244, 12th cent.
Insertions on other extra leaves (fol. 4, 158) are found in the main printed text. The arrangement of the main work in our MS. differs from PL, but appears to be the same as in the St. Florian MS. On variants in MSS. of the Speculum see Kelle, op. cit., pp. 28–44.
On fol. 18 there is a long marginal addition to the second sermon:
In the margins of the Speculum has been added a series of Latin verses, most of which are also found in the 12th-cent. St. Florian MS. already cited (Fl.); see Walther in Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 49 (1932), 330. The numbers in Walther’s Initia are not given where he only refers to Fl.
2 lines.
4 lines. PL 171 col. 1275. WIC 4063.
3 lines. Fl., fol. 21.
6 lines. WIC 20357: edition closest to this version in Hervieux, Les Fabulistes Latins iv, 1896, p. 353. Fl., fol. 24.
4 lines. Fl., fol. 36v.
6 lines. Fl., fol. 36v.
Probably also in Fl., as Walther says the preceding poem has 7 lines.
4 lines. Fl., fol. 41v.
3 lines. Again probably in Fl., since Walther says the preceding poem has 7 lines.
6 lines. Fl., fol. 53.
4 lines. FL, fol. 55 and MS. Vienna 625, fol. 24. The edition quoted by WIC 991, contains a variant version.
2 lines. FL, fol. 63v. WIC 9516.
2 lines.
2 lines.
2 lines. A variant of the verses of Hildebert. WIC 20336.
2 lines. Fl., fol. 154v
2 lines. Fl., fol. 155.
4 lines. WIC 19401. Apparently a version of Hildebert, cf. WIC 18193.
3 lines.
[sic: MS. Lyell 58, 12th cent., fol. 33v, also has this reading]
PL 40 col. 1003–32
With an additional passage on fol. 181–181v:
Inserted between cap. 37–8 of text printed in PL; it is pr. J. A. Endres, Honorius Augustodunensis, Kempten, 1906, pp. 138–40, from Munich clm. 22225.
This work, which has marginal headings: ‘V Mansiones’; ‘quid sit cubitus’; ‘iiiiº[sic] Areas’; ‘tres voluntates’; ‘De arca gratię’; ‘De arca sapientię’, etc., seems to be a shorter version of Hugh of St. Victor’s De Arca Noe (PL 176 col. 617–704). It is also found in MSS. Vienna 1165, 14th cent., in which it follows Honorius’ Cognitio Vitae, and 1561, 14th cent, from Salzburg, and was in Klosterneuburg MS. 931, listed in 1330; see Gottlieb, Mittelalt. BibLkat. Österreichs 1, 1915, p. 106 1. 18–19.
This quaestio is also in MSS. St. Florian xi. 54, 14th cent., fol. 104v and Vienna 1561, fol. 25.
Items d–f are pr. I. Dieterich in Introd. to ‘Libelli Honorii Augustodunensis’, Libelli de Lite 3 (1897), 34–5, from the Munich MS. already cited and MS. St. Florian xi. 54.
PL 172 col. 1223–6.
PL 172 col. 1241–6.
PL 172 col. 1177–86.
PL 172 col. 265–70.
Also in MSS. St. Florian xi. 54, fol. 106; Heiligenkreuz 77, 12th–13th cent., fol. 114; Prague Univ. xiii G. 15 (2382), 15th cent., fol. 193v, and in the Klosterneuburg MS. cit., where it was ascribed to ‘Hugo’. Ed. from this MS. by M.O. Garrigues, in Studiamonastieo 20 (1978), 48–53.
PL 172 col. 1247–8.
Ed. from this MS. by M.O. Garrigues, in Studiamonastieo 20 (1978), 67–70.
Pr. Endres, op. cit., pp. 145–7 from Munich clm. 22225 quoting variants from our MS., then at Lambach. Also in Munich clm. 9711, 15th cent.
Pr. Endres, op. cit., pp. 147–50 from Munich clm. 22225 with variants from our MS., then at Lambach. Also in MSS. St. Florian xi. 54; Prague Univ. xiii G. 15, fol. 199.
Followed by three other quaestiones , two with marginal headings
A pre–1381 Heiligenkreuz inventory lists these four quaestiones as in a MS. which in general corresponds with the present MS. Heiligenkreuz 77 cit., but these quaestiones are not listed in the modern catalogue. See Gottlieb, op. cit., p. 421. 36–9. Two at least of these quaestiones are in Prague Univ. MS. xiii G. 15, following our item 14.
PL 172 col. 1185–92. There are lacunae on fol. 208v and 209.
There follows without a break (fol. 209v) a question headed
Pr. J. Dieterich in M.G.H., op. cit., pp. 63–80.
At the end of ch. 27 the scribe left half a page blank (fol. 214v) and a contemporary hand added a short passage.
Not identical with the text pr. in PL 172 col. 1229–40.
Extracts from the fathers on free will; the extracts, with minor differences, are the same as those pr. in PL 172 col. 1226–30, following the De libero arbitrio.
Pr. PL 172 col. 1197–222. F. Baeumker, Das Inevitabile des H.A., in Beiträge xiii, 6, 1914, showed that this is a revised version of the Inevitabile but our MS. (fol. 232v–234v, end of De Juda to De vii Sigillis) has a fuller version of col. 1216D–1218A.
Four short pieces
Also in Prague Univ. MS. xiii G. 15, fol. 235v.
PL 172 col. 737–806. The arrangement in our MS. differs from the text printed in PL: many important headings are omitted, others are added. The order of chapters is: 1–111; v; iv; vi–xxxix; lxxxii–xcv; xl–lx; lxi omitted; lxii–lxxxi; xcvi–ci. The Munich MS. cit. ends fol. 128v with ‘De resurrectione domini’, which in our MS. is lxxxi–xcvi conflated.
Further short pieces:
Nos. 2–3, 7–8 of the catena on the penitence of Solomon pr. R. W. Hunt in App. to R. Loewe, ‘Alexander Neckham’s knowledge of Hebrew’, Med. and Ren. Studies 4 (1958) 30–1.
No heading
These four pieces appear also to be in MS. St. Florian xi. 54, fol. no–11 preceding the Sacramentarium, entitled ‘Hieronymi quaestiones aliquot’ and a and b at least are also in the Munich MS. cit., fol. 129.
On fol. 274v among other 12th–15th cent, scribbles are:
12th cent. 2 lines. Cf. MS. Digby 53, fol. 21v; WIC 2870.
11 lines; 12th cent.
15th cent.; 2 lines. The beginning of a verse against heretics found in Andreas Ratisbonensis, ‘Chronica Pontif. et Imp. Romanorum’, pr. Leidinger, Andreas von Regensburg, Sämtliche Werke, Munich, 1904, p. 144 (an. 1410). WIC 10552.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
215–35 × 135–45 mm. : 28–33 long lines, apart from fol. 140v–150v which are written in two cols., ruled in pencil or crayon apart from fol. 58–65v (quire viii) and fol. 165–166v, apparently ruled with a hard point
Hand(s)
Written in several hands in Austria (probably at Lambach) in the third quarter of the 12th cent.
There are many contemporary corrections and insertions. Some of the insertions and marginal captions by the scribes, describing the contents of the text, are enclosed in frames of red. There are also marginalia in 12th–15th-cent. hands.
Decoration
The MS. has a series of fine initials, mostly of the vinescroll type, drawn mainly in red but with further details in lilac or light-brown ink, sometimes with parts washed in yellow or green.
Some of the initials have zoomorphic features: birds (fols. 1, 1v, 6v, 44v, 75, 192, 209v), monsters (fols. 34, 44v, 55, 97v) and a hare (fol. 108v); others have figures: the risen Christ (fol. 58v), St. John the Baptist (fols. 78v, 95: freestanding figures); heads: fol. 70r, 73r, 86r (Christ and St. Mary Magdalene), 87v (St. James), in (St. Cecilia), 113v (St. Andrew), 117 (St. Thomas), 135v (a monk). On fol. 168 is a figure of a monk, possibly intended to be Honorius himself.
The style of the initials is close to the Salzburg school of the second half of the 12th cent., and the style of drawing of the figures and faces is similar to that in the ‘Williram’ codex from Lambach, now MS. Berlin theol. lat. qu. 140 (see Swarzenski, Salzburger Malerei, 1913, pp. 154–5 and Abb. 413–21) and that in the St. Augustine from Lambach (Sotheby sale, 12 Nov. 1929, lot 389, with plates) and the copy of Honorius on the Song of Songs, now Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS. W. 29 (ex-Lambach xciv, identified by H. Menhaxdt, ‘Der Nachlass des H. A.’, in Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und Literatur 89 (1958–9), 60), illustrated in J. Rosenthal, Bibi. Med. Aevi MSS. H Kat. 90), 1928, Taf. viii (no. 144), and Walters Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Illuminated Books of the M. Ages and Renaissance, Baltimore 1949, pl. xviil (no. 27). According to Swarzenski, the use of red and violet together in the pen drawing, with occasional use of brown ink, and of yellow wash, are characteristics of MSS. from Lambach (op. cit., p. 155). Pächt–Alexander 1, no. 80, pl. vii (fol. 58v).
Binding
Monastic binding: original thick wooden boards, covered in 15th cent, in white leather with traces of tooling (15th cent.?), plaited head and tail bands. Remains of two clasps (15th cent.?, modern straps), traces of bosses; two labels removed from upper cover. On the early bindings of Lambach see K. Holter in Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1954, p. 280.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly MS. xliii in the library of the Benedictine abbey of Lambach in Austria – the shelfmark ‘M. Memb. xliii’ (early 19th cent.) is on the spine, where there are also two earlier labels, now illegible. Mentioned in a list of books from the Lambach library made c. 1210, pr. by K. Holter, ‘Zwei Bibliotheksverzeichnisse des 13 Jh.’, M.I.Ö.G. 64 (1956), 273; see also K. Holter ‘Stift Lambach. Die Hss. und Inkunabeln’, Österreichische Kunsttopographie xxxiv, ii (1959), 239.
Bought by Lyell in March 1942 from A. Rosenthal; see J. Rosenthal, Kat. 90 cit., no. 145 and Taf. lii (fol. 44v).
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-16: Andrew Dunning Revised from description by Albinia de la Mare.