MS. Lyell 57
Hucbald, Palladius, etc.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A later erased note: ‘Precepta rei rustice’.
The first showing the five habitable and uninhabitable zones, the 4th of which contains the Antipodes ‘qui sub terra sunt et pedes habent contra nos versos’
The second is lettered like the diagram which illustrates Macrobius, De somno Scipionis, 11. v. 13, but its descriptive text is derived as well from II. vii. 4; ed. Eyssenhardt, Leipzig, 1893, pp. 601, 608 and diags. iv-v.
Lists of names, some glossed, of the Fates, Furies, Harpies, Graces, and Gorgons.
Ed. N. Bubnov, Gerberti Opera Mathematica, Berlin, 1899, in App. 1B, iv, pp. 228–44.
It is preceded by
A table, pr. Bubnov, pp. 227–8. The table differs considerably from the printed edition. In the MSS. cited by Bubnov this table is only found at the beginning in Munich clm. 14272.
Bubnov, p. 228 n. 4, only found this piece in Munich clm. 14272 and 14689 and Oxford, St. John’s College MS. 17. It is also found in MS. D’Orville 158, 11th cent., fol. 122v.
Following the text is a short passage, added in a different hand:
The section beg.: ‘Quotlibet’ is part of an alien fragment following the treatise found in several MSS., including Munich clm. 14689 and pr. A. Olleris, Œuvres de Gerbert, Paris, 1867, p. 345; see Bubnov, p. 244 n. There is an addition in the same hand on fol. 2, marked for insertion by ‘d’ in text and ‘h’ in margin: ‘De Sescuntia’ beg.: ‘Sescuntia in sextantem fit sicilicus’, which is not in Bubnov (p. 230 l.26).
Bk. iii. 9 and iv. 48 of Geometria incerti auctoris ed. Bubnov, op. cit., pp. 323, 358. The same fragments are found in Munich clm. 14689.
§ 2. PL 132 col. 485B3–486A7. The version in our MS. is slightly shortened.
Also found in MS. D’Orville 158 cit., fol. 120, and in Munich clm. 19489, 11th cent., Tegernsee, p. 62, and 23577, 11th cent., fol. 75.
Derived from the table in Boethius, Comm. on Aristotle De Interpretatione, Ed. Prima, Bk. II, c. 13, ed. Meiser, Leipzig, 1877, p. 180.
Fol. 1–7 listed by Pächt-Alexander 1, no. 43.
Ed. P. von Winterfeld in M.G.H. Poetarum Lat. Med. Aev. iv, i, 1899, pp. 267–71. He used our MS., which was then at Maihingen; it belongs to the non-interpolated group. On fol. 7v a slightly later hand has added the heading: ‘Egloga de calvis in qua habetur Parameon versuum cxxxvi. Egloga Hugbaldi de calvis cuius hęc est causa carminis’.
A blank space of half a column remains on fol. 8v.
Ed. Schmitt, Leipzig, 1898. Each book is preceded by a list of chapters. Bk. II beg. fol. 20v; Bk. III, fol. 24v. Ends (fol. 31rb 1. 7) in the middle of a sentence in hi. 24 (Schmitt p. 97 1. 26): adlevandus est sarculo. The rest of fol. 31rb is left blank. Only fol. 9–10v are rubricated.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled space 210 × 145–55 mm. : 33 lines, fol. 1–7 in long lines; ruled with a hard point
fol. 7v–31 in 2 cols.
Hand(s)
Written in several hands in Germany in the 11th cent.
Binding
Modern binding of dark-brown morocco by Maltby of Oxford.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Identifiable as L.47 in the catalogue of Tegernsee made by Konrad Sortorius, librarian 1500–1531 (Krämer, op. cit., 85). Krämer, B.L.R. IX, 4 (1976), 199–207 and plate XII (fol. 7v). A 15th-cent. hand has added marginal descriptions of pieces throughout the MS (identifiable as Ambrosius Schwarzenbeck, librarian of Tegernsee 1481–1500; see S. Krämer in Codices manuscripti I, 3 (1975), 84–5).
Formerly MS.1.2.fol.5 in the Fürstliche Oettingen-Wallerstein’sehe Bibliothek, Maihingen; library stamp on pastedown. See Neues Archiv vii, 180; vol. cit., p. 261.
No. 10 in Catalogue xix (1936) of L’Art Ancien S.A., Zurich.
Bought by Lyell in February 1942 from A. Rosenthal; see his Cat. i (1939), no. 19 and pl. iv (fol. 7v).
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Record Sources
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-16: Andrew Dunning Revised from description by Albinia de la Mare.