PAL

Jordanus

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3507.

Scribe(s) The scribe is apparently the same as OxfB, MS. Bodley 718 (Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library 2632), and ParN lat. 943: cf. New Pal. Soc., pl. 111.
Short title Rabanus Maurus, etc.
Century 10/II
Place of origin England
Language Latin
Previous owners At Exeter in 1327 (Inv., 303) and no doubt much earlier. (<in.) "Nº 25" & "Nº 2".
Height × width 312 x 195
No. of leaves iii + 97 + iii
Gatherings 1^8(-1, probably blank) 2-12^8 13^2. Quires 1-12 lettered at the end a-m. Hair outside all sheets.
Cover Binding of s. 18: a slight rustmark from the chain attached to a former binding shows on 1 at the foot.
Condition Slightly damaged by damp. 1-7 now misbound in the order 1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6, 7.
Type of writing A handsome square Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
Width of columns 228 x 130 mm.
Lineation 29 long lines.
Initials etc. Initials: (a) (1) green; (b) 1-line, alternately metallic red and in the ink of the text. Capital letters in the ink of the text filled with yellow.
Printed catalogs E. Bernard, Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (1697) # 25. Ker II (1977) 813-4
Publ. descriptions R. Derolez, Runica manuscripta (1954) 220-1.
Other notes The contents are nearly the same as ff. 10v-65 of Cotton Vitellius A. xii, ff. 4-77, amanuscript of s. 11/12 by a Salisbury scribe (the same scribe wrote Salisbury Cathedral 25, ff. 176v-203, and 128, ff. 25-116, Bodley 765, f. 1/16-19, and Keble College 22, ff. 3-4v, 5v-7, 10), which contains everthing here, except 60v-61v, but with enough differences to make it unlikely that Vit. is copied from ExeC 3507 (as Ker suggested it was in , Wiltshire Magazine 53 (1949) 156).
Source Bernard
Type of source cat.
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Author (ms.) Hrabanus
Author standard Hrabanus Maurus
Title (ms.) De computo
Contents (1v) Incipiunt kapitula libri sequentis. i. De numerorum potentia ... (3v) xcvi. De aetatibus. Expliciunt kapitula.
Incipit Quia té uenerande preceptor
Publ. descriptions J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 107 669-728
Folio no. 1, 3, 2, 4-58
Rubric (2) Incipit ipse liber hrabani de compoto.
Prolog Incipit prologus hrabani peritissimi uiri. Dilecto fratri machario monacho hrabanus peccator in christo salutem. Legimus scriptum ... (1v) et mihi remittas. Explicit prologus.
Explicit qui est benedictus in secula amen.
Work 2Title (ms.) De duodecim mensibus anni.
Contents 9 lines
Incipit Id circo certis
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 8654.
Folio no. 58rv
Rubric Versus de duodecim mensibus anni.
Work 3Title (ms.) Tetrasticon autenticum
Contents 48 lines
Incipit Hic iani mensis sacer
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 7988a.
Folio no. 58rv
Rubric Tetrasticon autenticum. de singulis mensibus.
Work 4Title (ms.) De singulis mensibus
Contents 12 lines
Incipit Primus romanas ordiris
Publ. descriptions Anthologia Latina, # 639 (Ausonius)
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 14678.
Folio no. 59 v
Rubric Versus de singulis mensibus.
Work 5Title (ms.) De mensibus et signis xii.
Contents 12 lines
Incipit Dira patet iani
Folio no. 59v
Rubric Versus de mensibus et signis xii.
Work 6Title (ms.) De duodecim signis
Contents 12 lines
Incipit Primus adest aries
Publ. descriptions Cf. Anthologia Latina, # 615 (6 lines ending "lumine pisces)
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 14646.
Folio no. 59v-60
Rubric Versus de duodecim signis.
Explicit ludere pisces
Work 7Title (ms.) De cursu anni
Contents 17 lines
Incipit Bissena mensium uertigine
Publ. descriptions Anthologia Latina, # 680
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 2187.
Folio no. 60
Rubric Versus de cursu anni.
Work 8Title (ms.) De octo tramitibus circuli decennouenalis
Contents 8 lines
Incipit Linea christe tuos
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 10329.
Folio no. 60rv
Rubric De octo tramitibus circuli decennouenalis.
Work 9Title (ms.) De septem dierum uocabulis
Contents 7 lines
Incipit Prima dies phoebi
Publ. descriptions J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 139 578. Anthologia Latina, # 488.
Printed copies H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters (1959) # 14566.
Folio no. 60v
Rubric Versus de septem dierum uocabulis.
Work 10Title (ms.) De septem miraculis manu factis
Incipit Primum capitolium rome
Folio no. 60v-61v
Rubric De septem miraculis manu factis.
Explicit mirabilis aedificii.
Work 11Title (ms.) Duo sunt extremi uertices mundi
Incipit quos appelabant polos
Publ. descriptions J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 90 368-9: cf. A. van de Vyver in RB 47 (1935) 140.
Folio no. 61v-63v
Rubric Duo sunt extremi uertices mundi.
Explicit decurrit accipiens.
T & K TK
Work 12Title (ms.) Dies egyptiaci qui debeant obseruari
Incipit Non interscias
Folio no. 63v
Rubric Dies egyptiaci qui debeant obseruari.
Explicit die quinto.
Work 13Title (ms.) Dies aegyptiaci
Incipit Quos maxime obseruare debemus
Folio no. 63v-64
Rubric Item dies aegyptiaci.
Explicit obseruandi sunt.
Work 14Title (ms.) Ordo librorum catholicorum in circulo anni legendorum
Incipit In primis in lxx ponunt eptaticum
Folio no. 64rv
Rubric Incipit ordo librorum catholicorum in circulo anni legendorum.
Explicit usque in lxxam.
Work 15Title (ms.) Omnes uero litterae a similitudine uocis caracteras acceperunt
Incipit A. Subhiato
Folio no. 64v
Rubric Omnes uero litterae a similitudine uocis caracteras acceperunt.
Explicit Z. Vero appius claudius testatur. dentes moti. Dum exprimitur imitatur.
Work 16Title (ms.) Greek and Hebrew alphabets, with interpretations
Contents (65rv) <omega> oo. finis. aleph interpretatur doctrina
Incipit agricola
Folio no. 65rv
Rubric A alfa.
Explicit <tau> tau. errauit uel consummauit.
Work 17Title (ms.) Numbers with the Greek words for them
Contents (65v) <psi> niacusin. dccc(c). chile dischile ... CHRISTVS XPS. alfa
Incipit <lambda> (sic) mia. i
Folio no. 65v
Explicit eneacoses.
Work 18Title (ms.) Three runic alphabets
Contents Three runic alphabets, A-Z, and extras, followed by the words "Pax uobiscum et salus pax" in runes, with the Latin letters above them in rustic capitals.
Publ. descriptions R. Derolez, Runica manuscripta (1954) 221-36.
Folio no. 66
Work 19Title (ms.) De concurrentibus
Incipit Si uis scire concurrentes
Folio no. 66v
Rubric De concurrentibus.
Explicit eodem anno.
Work 20Title (ms.) De epactis
Incipit Et qualem lunam
Folio no. 66v
Rubric De epactis.
Explicit habetur.
Work 21Title (ms.) In octauo anno x et vii epactas
Incipit In octauo anno x et vii epactas.
Folio no. 66v
Explicit concurr' ii.
Work 22Title (ms.) De sex aetatibus nominis
Incipit Prima infantia vii annos tenet
Folio no. 66v
Rubric De sex aetatibus nominis (sic).
Explicit annorum tenet.
Work 23Author (ms.) isidorus psalensis
Author standard Isidorus Hispalensis
Additional names Gildas
Title (ms.) De natura rerum
Contents 48 chapters
Incipit De diebus. Dies est solis
Printed catalogs Cf. N.R. Ker, Catalogue of MSS. containing Anglo-Saxon 153 # 116* & # 146 (for the two glosses on 92v)
Publ. descriptions J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 83 963-1018.
Printed copies F. Barlow (and others), Leofric of Exeter (1972) pl. vii, shows 68, reduced. The two glosses on 92v are printed by, A.S. Napier, Old English Glosses (1900) # 41 (from the copy from CanS, LonB, Cotton Domitian 1, 34v.
Additional remarks Ascribed to Gildas in the heading of Vitellius A. xii.
Folio no. 67-97v
Rubric Incipit liber isidoris psalensis episcopi. de natura rerum.
Dedication Domino et filio sisebuto esidorus (`scilicet ego' interlined) salutem (`scilicet mitto' interlined). Dum te prestantem ... (67v) efficiat. Explicit prefatio.
Prolog Incipiunt capitulationes. i. De diebus ... xlviii. De partibus terra (sic). Alii autem prologum cuius initium tu fortem loculentis uaga carmina gignis in hunc locum introducunt. Alii autem isidori esse respuunt sed gilde.
Explicit stadiorum estimauerunt. Cuius terre expositionem in medio ociano subiecto declarat formula. Finiunt expositiones numero quadraginta Nouem.
Colophon Explicit liber isidori psalensis episcopi de natura rerum.
Glosses etc. The two Old English glosses on 92v are noted by R. Derolez, Runica manuscripta (1954) 220.
Additional copies The two glosses on 92v are also in the copy from CanS, LonB, Cotton Domitian 1, 34v
T & K TK
Work 24Title (ms.) Tres filii noe diuiserunt orbem
Incipit Tres filii noe diuiserunt orbem
Folio no. 97v
Explicit Iaphet in europa.
Line drawings An Isidorian world diagram follows, inscribed in the top compartment "In asia ... libia", in the lower left compartment "In affrica ... et minores", and in the lower right compartment "In europa ... austraicias".