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Vol. V

RESEARCH cannot be conducted without materials. This is as true in the fields of the humanities as it is in natural or social science' A man shut up in an empty room may meditate and reflect and imagine; but he can_hardly pursue ,"."u.ilt - not, at least, in the fields of humanistic inquiry' Humanistic re- search demands materials.

Some humanistic materials cannot be transferred and brought within the reach of research;... But there are materials, just as important in their way, which can be brought to the research man; original materials, in the wa-y of inscrip- tions, manuicripts, miniatures, literary and documentary - thgsg can be secured and biought within the reach of humanistic research in our own universities and ins-titutes. Of course, they are becoming more and more difficult to obtain; more and more they are finding their way into great public collec- tions; which will not let them go. Ten years ago a seasoned dealer in such things assured me that there was not a Greek New Testament manuscript to be h"ad in Europe. This proved to be not quite true, but it reflects the general situation. Yet slch mateiials must be made available if that particular {orm o[

humanistic research is to be practised or taught. Such materials are indespen- sably necessary to such research... (InEoduction by Edgar |' Goodspeed- to the descriptive cataiogue of Greek New Testament mss. in America, compiled by Kenneth W. Clark, Chicago 1937).

THE PIiINCIPAL (GR,EEK) IINCIAL MSS. OF TIIE NEW TESTAMENT, BY WILL. EIENRY PAINE HATCH, CTXICAGO 1938' 4to.

A fine publication. Besides a valuable reproduction apparatus of 76 pla_tes with descripiive text and bibliography the book is completed by .an excellent in- troduition, dealing with the early book, materials o[ writing (papyr-us, vellum etc.), ink, forms of books etc., very use{ul to those not acquainted with the field of study of early manuscripts'

DISCOVERY OF CHRISTIAN TEXTS IN EGYPT.

A wonderful and important discovery was recently made in Egypt- A more or less complete fourth century codex on papyrus, bound in leather, has come to light. The volume contains, besides other Gnostic works, the whole text of the lo"st Gospel according to the Egyptians (Chronique d'Egypte, April 1948).

DISCOVERY OF MANUSCRIPTS OF ORIGENES AND OF DIDYMUS TIIE BLIND.

At Toura, a little village situated a few miles from Cairo, labourers working in a quarry, discovered in a large vault a lulky lot of Greek papyri of the 6th or Ttit century A.D., written in a neat Byzantine cursive -and consisting of Bibhcal commlntaries of Didymus the Blind and of works of Orige-nes, where- amongst the lost commentary on the lpistle to the Romans and of considerable portio'ns of the important treatise Contra Celsus (Revue de I'Histoire des Religions, pp. 131 f.f.. 1916).

Christian libraries were in dhe time of the Arab conquest of Egypt much harried and the concealment by some priest of his valuable little library -can

be "uiily u.cor1oted for.

DISCOVERY OF OLD HEBREW BIBLICAL TEXTS

A most alarming discovery was made in Palestina in November 1947. Near Hebron a number of skin-rolls has come to light, aof,arently dating f.o." tt "

first centuury B.9. and containing, besides other 'old

Testamenial books, co-mmentaries and apocrypha, the Book of |esaiah.

The discovery is divided between the Ameriian School for Oriental Research and the University o[ ferusalem.

A PALESTINIAN SYRIAC PALIMPSEST LEAF OF ACTS XXI.

BY MATTHEW BI,ACK

(Bulletin |lohn Rylands Libr. vol. xxIII, Aprit 1939, pp. 201-214 with 2 plates).-Th" <ollection of Christian Arabic ind Syriac mss. and fragments acquired by the late Dr. Mingana from the editor of Rotulus, containe"d pcr- tions of very early mss. and a considerable number of early palimpsests. Fro- fessor Black deals *itF

? recently_ recovered leaf of the palimpsest codex of the Gospels, the so-called codex climaci rescrip-t rs, which was iound ;;;;g;t the fragments in question. The upper-writing of the codex is a syriac ;;;;

of the ,,scala Paradisi" written in the 9th century, and the ,,Libe, ad pasto- r.um _ .of st. |ohn climax, abbot of Mount sin;i. The unJer,writing is of the 6th century, _and consists in the main, of P_alestinian Syriac texts oi parts of the Gospels Acts and St. Paui's epistles. Of the Palestinian Svrlac bible we possess little more than a number of isolated passages and scatiered frag- ments, so that the recovery of this fragment ii of clnsiderable irnportanie containing, as it does, a practically complete text of Acts XXI, and' making possible the comparison of the Palestinian Syriac text with the Peshitta, whicfi.

appear to have much in common.

THIRTY FOUR ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM TIIS TTIOMAS PHILIPPS COLLECTION WERE SOLD AT SOTIIEBY'S IN JULY T,946.

A Greek Psalter of the 10th centurywith 150 drawings fetched g 950, an llth century Horace (Carmina, Epodon) [_qq0.-, an illus-trated l3th century copy of $e Topographia and Expurgnatio Hibernica r 1600.-, a l3th ceotu.y ois.

of Arthurian prose romances in old French with 162 miniatures [ 4000.'-, a similar ms. of Tristan with 89 miniatures 0 1600.-, a l4th century ms. of Robert de Borron. Roman du Saint Graal I Roman de Merlin with'129 historiated initials 0 1100.-, a l4.th century illuminated ms. Alchandreus and Boethius, de astrologja and Musica g 1700.-, a l4th century ms. with poems of the Provencal Troubadours, richly illuminated with 29 portraits of the troubadours 87500,-, a 15th century ms. of the Roman de Brui, with 102 small miniatures 91300,-, an early 15th century illuminated ms. o{ Dantes Divina Comedia t 2800.-, an early 15th century French ms. of Petrus de Crescentius with 14 miniatures [ 1000.-, a 15th century ms. of Roman History with 9 miniatures F,2600.-, a l5th century book of hours with 13 miniaturesr 2600.-, a dated ms. (1459) with the -works of virgil -wirh 12 miniatures and 2 drawings

€ 4800.-, a French 15th century ms. of cicero with 13 miniatures g 1200.:, A Greek ms. of Aesopus, late 15th century with r35 miniatures, executed in Italy f 6200.*.

The 34 volumes fetched a total of S 55.190.-.

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Mediaeval manuscripts and fragments (Latin) 2050-2106' Illuminated leaves 2107-2117,

Miscellaneous manuscripts 21 18-2123.

Mediaeval documents 2124-2145.

Oriental manuscripts (Christian) 2146-2150' Oriental manuscrips (Islamic) 215l-2160' Persian manuscripts 216l-2165,

Oriental miniature-paintings 2166-2168.

Magical books from Sumatn 2169.

Babylonian claytablets 2170-2171.

Old Egyptian paPYri 2175-2178' Funeral tablets 2179-2184.

Greek papyri (literary) 218l-2193,

Greek papyri (letters I documents) 2194-2247' Coptic religious t exts 2208--2230,

Coptic magical paPYri 2231-2238.

Coptic papyri (letters E documents) 2239-2259' Roman tomb-stone 2260.

Miscellaneous cheap items 2261-J287.

The Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Syriac items, described in the present issue of Rotulus, were purchased by the editor in 1935_36, when travelling in the Near East.

We hold, besides a large assorted stock of papyri and samples of mediaeval writing, a varied stock of oriental miniature paintings, genuine Egyptian antiquities, scarabs, amulets, fune-

rary statues etc.

P R I C E S S U I T A B I , E F O F " A T - L .

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A,bbreviations 2089

Acts of martyrs 2050, 93-96, 2150, 2208' 09

A,pocrypha (Coptic) 2212, 17, 18' 23, 25, 26 Apothecaries 2137, 41

Aiabian Nishts 2265, 66 Arboriculture 2097 Autooraphs 2123, 24 Auguitine $t.\ 2055, 56 ,74 Astrology 2169

Bees 2163 Belsazar 2173

Bibles 2061-65, 70, 2113, 46' 47' 2280 Bible (English) 2066

Hundred Years war 2142 Huntin,g 2167 B

Irrigation of land 2216 lews 2284

Iuvenalis 2099 Leprosity 2140 Longevity 2165 Louis XIY 2122

Love charms 2232, see magic

Magic 205'1, 2169, 72, 89, 90, 2231-3E Marriage 2127, 32, 39, 71, 2203, 16 Medical 2053, 57, 83, 2137, {0, 41, 65' E3'

99,2281, 2250, 2103

Nlusic 2107-09, 17, 2245, 69, 77,78 Napoleon 2123

Petrarch 2092 Plautus 2073

Pharmacology 2053, 2137, 4l Plavs 2l2l

Poeiry (French) 2069, 78, 87, 9I Poetry (Latin) 2052, 83, 2101 Poetry (Persian) 2159, 61, 62, 64 Polo 2167 E

Postal histcry 2205 Provencal language 2133 Puccini 2143

Q u r a n 2 1 5 1 - 5 6 Sailing boats 2170 Servian language 2149, 50 Shipping 2143a

Shropshire 2126

School books 2052, 2193 Sporting 2167

Taxes 2206, 2254, 56 Terence 2099 Tobacco 2166

Tomb-stone (Roman) 2260 Yenice 2735-36, 2143 Vineculture 2097 Vineyards 2i06 Yirgil 2092, 99 Yorkshire 2125 7.oo1,ogy 2163, 2059 Btble (Greek) 2i91

Bible (Coptic) 2210, 13, 19-21, 29 Bible (portions ot) 2079-81' 2149'

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Bibliography 2105 Book keeping 2239, 49 Bvron 2143

Canal wor^kers 2253

Chronicles 2281, 82, see ePics Cicero 2099

Classics (Roman) 2067, 72,73, 82, 89' 92, 99

Classics (Greek) 2071, 2l8l-87 Cornedians 209{

Concubines 2186 Costumes 2127 Communists 2167 h Dante 2092 Dendrology 2059

Dictionaries, see glossaries Drr'ination, see magic

Epics 2069, 82, 87, 2162, 64' 67, 8l-83 Epitaphs 2092,2260

Fables 2092

Geographical names (Egyptian\ 2247, 49 Glosiaries 2073, 2101, 05, 58, 88 Goldsmiths 2145

Hbmerus 2181, 83 Horace 2099

Horses 2104, 2142E, 67, 68

PI.as. Ii.t us Your wants.

I{EDI,2EVAL MANUSCRIPTS (LATIN)

2O5O ACTA S. ASCLAE.PASSIO S. DOROTHEAE.ACTA S. POLYCAAPI SMYRNENSIS FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XII.

T w o c o n n e c t e d l e a v e s , - v e l l u m , 4 p a g e s roy. folio (405:265 mM.), double columns, red initials and rubrics, in rather good condition with full margins.

Germany second half Twelfth century f 95,-.

Te.xt:.fol. lrecto (Acta s. Asclae, vide Acta s.S. Boll. 1643, jan. fi, p.756 ff. flumine quod.a.b illo exigu-us -_end,-(Passio S. Dorotheae) * ad tortores aixlt 1loi. 1 verso t, fi";i

f.ol. .2 recto (Acta S.- Polycarpi) veritatis inimicus .- at illi postquam nichil se p"rf".t.t!

s e u . . . ( f o l . 2 v e r s o i n f i n e ) .

*Sl. Asc/as, Christian martyr who suffered in the persecution under Diocletian. After being-prg! to severe torture he w-as thrown into the Nile jt Antinod in Egypr.

. St..Dorothea, famous Virgin-rnartyr o-f Cagsarea in Cappadocia, *ho oil's racked, scourgerl and beheaded under Diocletian about 300 A.D.

. st. Polgcary,- converted to christianiry by St. John the Evangelist about A.D. g0 he became Bishop ol !ryy.rna and was one of the mosi famoq martyis of antiguity. H" wos burned alive (A.D. 166) rvith 12 other Christians under the Emperor Marcus Aur"li,rs.

2O5T ALCUINUS. COMMENTARIUM IN CANTICUM CANTICOR,UM FBAGMENTUM SAEC. XIL

Two connected leaves, vell-.m, 8vo (190:130 mM.), double columns, top margin cut away with loss of text, a rather cramped and angular script, initiafs marked with brownish red strokes.

Northern Germany (Bremen?) about 1150 A.D. f Zg,_.

Cf. Migne Patrologia Latina vol. C, cols 653-54.

Alcuin, famous scholar and teacher of Charlemagne, born in Northumbria, died A.D. 80{.

2052 ALEXANDER DE VILLADEI. DOCTRINALE FR,AGMENTUM

saEc. xrv.

o n e l e a f on vellum, 8 v o , ( 2 1 0 : 1 3 5 mM.), 33 lo'rg lines of verse to the page, fine regular Gothic script, red initial, first letter of Jach verse crossed red. veiso partly blurred, recto in excellent condition.

Germany mid Fourteenth century f llr-.

Text. Doctrinale v'v. 1888-1961.

A good specimen of this famous mediaeval school-book.

2053 ANTIDOTARIUM FRAGMENTIJM SAEC, XN.

one leaf 4to (210:160 mM.) veilum, double columns, angular script, red and blue initials, upper-and lower margin cut away with IosJ of some text.

Germany late Twelfth century f gE,-.

Vide Haeser. Geschichte d.er Medizia L.pp. 666 ff. We were unable to identify the compilator of this mediaeval pharmacopy. Tlie present fragment does not agree witir the antidotarium compiled by Matthaeus Platearius (saec. XII)- and the text difTers from the pharmacopy composed by Nic. Praepositus (saec. XII),

2054 APOLLONIUS PHILOSOPHUS ET MAGUS. ARS NOTORIA SALOMONIS FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

Two connected leaves, vellum, 153 : 100 mM., Gothic script with 2r-22 lines

Ftagment ttom a famous book on magic and-theurgg'

Co#oare fhorndike aii."ijt.Liv-"r-irl"giE ""J Experlfr-ental Historv of Magic and Experimel Science,. vol. II pp'. ?8} ,9.?:

Coripare Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science'. vol. ll Pp'. tot ,o.1' we are told that the creator revealed this art through an angel.to.5ol9m"1 one, nlgnt wnlle il;r.';6ts, "rJ ir,"t ty-;t;;;;;; i" u it"rt tirie acquirJ all the iiberal and mechanical arts."

Two mss. at Erfurt, oct. 84 saec. XIV and Q, 381 saec' XII'I. These are the earliest orss. of this bock.**'e

C".."" translation of this treatise on magic in the 5th volume of Agrippa ab Nettes- h"i-;; M;;i;;i *tt. ipOtished by Barsdorf, Berlin) pp. 157--285. The present fragment does not fu'ily agree with the Ger'man text.

2055 S, AUGUSTINUS. IN JOHANNEM EVA'NGELIUM FR,AGMENTUM SAEC. XI INEUNTIS.

2056

One leaf: on vellum, blue initials and red

Fourteenth centurY f 40,-.

fine leaf lrom this famous classic, ed. Terlbner p' 256: VI 6-VI'7'16'

205? AVICENNA. DE R,E MEDICA

FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIII.

One leaf on vellum, folio (400:365 mM.), double columns, fine Gothic script, ,"J-irriti"t with scroll-work and red rubric, verso (with initial and rubric) rubbed and with traces of folding.

Southern Germany about 1000 A.D. f 65'-'

Migne Patrologia Latina vol, XXXV cols, 1645-*58._ Compare_H' Pope. St ^Algustine's Tru.i.ii, itt Johaniern, .-""gf"AJ.l"ssic, American Ecclesiastical Review 49 (1913) p' 161'

AUGUSTINIIS. DE CIVITATE DEI FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

folio (400 :365 mM,), double columns,, fine Gothic script, rubric, red paragraph-marks, in very clean condition' to the page, small

consecutive and in

Fol. 1r: (majes??) scicus.

2058

One leaf 35 lines c

uncoloured initials placed in very sound condition.

Eastern GermanY mid

tatem tuam, Domine. Dulcis et -

blank spaces, the leaves are Fourteenth centurY f 38,-.

fol. 2v (in flne) ... omnia fiant

S.

Two connecteci leaves, vellum, follo, double columns, Gothic script, -initials

"ft"t"Lfv red and biue, red rubrics, uppermarcrin cut. with the loss of a few lines, fols, lrecto and 2verso rubbed-with traces of glue' 49 iines to the column, subjoined two other fragments from the same ms'

Northern ltaly rnid Thirteenth century f 45,-' Text: fol. lrecto: punctura et dispositio (Fen. 6, Tr. 1, cap. 4) - fol. 2verso: (in fine) ...et solutio ventris (Fen. 6' Tr' [II' cap' 1)

This is the Latin tt""rf.ii*

-Uv 'C.tu.a"'r

Cremonensis. Dscovered in the ,binding ol Bastlius-Niag;"r.--Op".u, S;rrf"" fi1O, ]rom the library (ex libris manu 1550) of the Fran-

ciscan convent at Diest,

BEDA (VENERABTLTS) SERMO DE FESTO OMI{rUM SANCTONUM FEAGMENTUM SI\EC. XI.

on rather thin vellum, folio, 400 :260 mM', double columns with oi .1r"ry beautiful bold Caroline script, red initials and beginnings

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narked red, cut in two but restored, in clean condition with wide margins.

Northern Italy about 1100 A.D. .f 60,-.

Recto: (rnartyrum Christi) ut exclusa multitudine demonum ,verso (in fine) Quo a Deo digni inven(tur). Migne Patrol. Lat. vol. 94, cols. 453 ff.

T,here are interpolatio'ns in the text considerably dilfering frorn those published by Migne, as often is the case with homilies of the venerable Bede. Incipit of one interpolation (33 limes of ms,): Nunc ergo fratres karissimi, in omnium primordiis sanctorum nobis nominare, laudare etc.

2059 BARTIIOLOMEUS ANGLICUS (DE GLANVILLA) LItsER, DE PTiOPRIETA.TIBIJS BERUM F'RAGMENT^A. SAEC. XV.

Ten leaves on vellum, folio (ca 420:255 mM.), double columns, 68 lines to the column, good Gothic script, red and blue initials, red rubrics I paragraph- marks, fol. I fragmentary, fols. 3-5, I I 9 partly without margin and with loss of some text, from book-bindings, in sound condition however.

Probably Western Germany about 1420 A.D. / 160,-.

Text: Lib. )(VII. 47 de centaurea-53, de edera, 9l de lilio -94 de lappate; lib. XVIII (2 de ariete) -'5 de apro,7 de angue -end of 8 de aspide,9 de aranea -19 de camaleonte, 24 de canicula -26 de catulo. (159) de scopa, 160 de stuppa -168 de tisana.

Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan, wrote about 1250 his famous encyclopaedia, giving a good idea of the general cu,lture of his day. Of special interest are his views on everyday life, geography, psychology, psysiology, anatomy I disease, plant and animal life, cosmology E metereology. Compare a.o, R. Steele's Mediaeva! lore from B, Anglicus (1905) 8 L. Thorndike ,,History of Magic an Experimental Science vol. 2 (19231 ,

2060 BABTITOLOMEUS DE BOIIEMI.q.. QUAESTIONES CANCEI,LARIIS FRAGMENTUM SAEC. X[I.

Two connected leaves, vellum, folio (240:165 mM.), very small Gothic scipt, double columns with 58 lines to the column, in good condition throughout.

Northern France (Paris?) ca. 1250 A.D. f 32,-.

This friar Bartholome.*, is not mentioned by Chevalier (Souries historigues) and these quacstioncs are likely to be unpublished. The scribe has written the name oI the author and the nature of his work in the upper magrin of fol. 1.

2061 BIBLIA LATINA FR,AGMENTUM SAEC. XII.

Two connected leaves on vellum, roy, folio (550:370 mM.), 44 lines of bold script to the column, red initials and red rubrics in semi-uncial calligraphy, upper-part of first leaf damaged with loss of some text, a hole in the blank margin of second leaf, otherwise in sound condition. Beautiful specimen.

Northern Italy early Twelfth century A.D. f 180,-.

Text, Osea IX. 4 (non intrabit) in domum Domini r end.

Fol. 2verso: INCIPIT PROLOGTIS IN LIBRO JOEL. IOHIEL FI'LIUS PHATUEL describit.., and other prologues on Joel.

2062 BIBLIA LATINA FBAGMENTA SAEC. XU.

Four leaves on vellum, folio (415 :250 nM.), double columns,late Carlovingian script with a tendency to Gothic, margins partly cut with the loss of one or two lines, otherwise in sound condition.

Northern France mid Twelfth century f l40r-.

Text.: |eremias XXX. 6-XXXII. 18, XLIV. 21*XLV1fi.24, XLVIII. 28-L. 18, Ba- ruclr VL 22-i0.

M a n u s c r i p t o n u t e r i n e v e l l u m , 4 0 8 l e a v e s s m . B v o ( 1 5 5 : 1 0 0 r n M . ) ' d o u b l e ."i"or"t,

'50 litt"t of neat Gothic script to the column, on a few pages contern- Dorary marqinal annotations, with about 40 illuminated initials, decorated in

!;1,";r u"a" ii"igtttened with silver, introducing grotesques, birds etc.' other i"lU.f" in red a;d blue with marginal pen-work and scrolls' imperfect :t the il"gl""i"g (Exodus XIX) and enling vrith the index oI Hebrew names letter O,"otherivise a very handsome manuscript, red morocco'

England late Thirteenth century / 1200'-' 2064 BIBLIA LATINA (VETUS TESTA-IVIEI{TUM) FRAGMENTUM Fraqment of. 73 leaves on vellum, 185:120 mM., double columns with 60 it""! .i "LrV small Gothic script to the column, initials alternately blue. and red

*ittr *u.gitial scrolls, one illuminated initial heightened with gold, red rubrics,

;"i;;;#;i*e" *ith wide blank margins, coniains the books |oshua-|udith, 2063

sreen mofocco,

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L i t t e r i s a F a b i o G a i C a e s a r i s . . . . -

fol. 4v (in fine) Acceptis mandatis (Bell. civ. I' 10)'

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2065 BIBLIA LATINA FRAGMENTA SAEC. XIV.

T h r e e l e a v e s , v e l l u m , r o y , 4 t o ( 5 4 0 : 4 0 0 m M . ) , d o u b l e - c o l u m n s w i t h 3 0 l i n e s of "*."tf""t Gothlc calligraphy to the column, red initial with blue penflouris- [;r;;,;;Ji.rj i.rto the iraigin, Gospel-h_armoly in-the margins, contains the

""a .f St. M"atthew and poition of St. IViarc II-III. In very sound condition' A very attractive set'

Northern France or Low eountries mid Fotlrteenth century f 120,-' 2066 BIBLIA ANGLICA FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XW/XV.

One leaf, vellum, now rneasuring ab. 200: ll0 mM., 8vo, double columns' recto with iiluminated initial in lold and colours and full bar border with

?to*1r ""a leaf work, red rubric"s, in rather poor condition, the illuminated initial and border are intact, right hand margin cut away with loss of text'

about 1400 A.D. f 75,-.

,,Here endith the pistii to filipensis and ,begynneth the prolog on the pistil to colocensis' C o l o c e n s i s t h e n a l s o l a o d i c e n s i s . . ' . . .--'l-.-t"*

in his ptol"g(e) on this pistil seith this""" Anglo'saxon th

2A67 CAESAR (C. JULIUS) DE BELI-O GALLICO, DE BELLO CMI FRAGMENTA SAEC. XV.

Four leaves on vellum, 4to (280:200 mM.), beautiful upright humanistic ,.ript., rnr"e large initials ill).uminated with go-Id and colouts with scroll-

*oii oS tn" whiie uine-pattern, fol. lr and 4t dust-stained and fol. 2v €t 3r water-siained otherwise in complete condition'

Northern ltalY BIBLIA LATINA SAEC. XIII.

France (Paris School) mid Thirteenth century f 400'-'

lr: Antonius cum iusto timore extimaret (be11. Gall'

about 1440 A.D. f 180,-.

vrrr. 48).

2 r ( i n f i n e B e l l . G a l l . ) q u a m b e l l i g e r e n d i .

1",'boMntpNTARroR'uM C. i"U[,rr CAESARiS DE BELLO CIVILI POM- rieER I-lNtriry. luliilS c4sus 69NSTANTIN{JS V. C. EMENDAVIT.

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2068 CALENDARIUM FR,AGMENTUM SAEC. XI.

One leaf on stout vellum, f.olio (265:175 mM,), possibly the preceding leaf fio- " breviary (Februari habei dies xx. viii lunam xxviiii), besides a few saints the leaf

'contains

numerous old German proper names' written in red u"J ffu.t, red initial. In excellent condition. From the Forrer collection. Un- recorded.

Western Germany Eleventh century f 60'-.

Diepirc, Conradus presbyter, Heinricus, Cunibertus, Adelbertus, Waltherus, Gerboldus' C"rftifaii"G"Jtui,- g..dt., Fioholdus, Wicfriclus, Aleginhardus, Kuna, Embricus, Ebo, etc'

2069 CIIEVALERESQUE EPIC OR, CHRONICLE.

Fragment on vellum, 175:60 mM., Gothic script, red rubric, blue initials with 33 lines of verse in old French language'

France mid Fifteenth century f 60'-'

Rubric: Coment en celi tempoire li sarrazin venirent asaillir verulaine (iurelaine?) et lors li chevaliers...

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at"J il-rir"; de ]a terre,/qui capitaine est de la guerre/sires reniers estoit nommes/

uns chevaliers rnoult renommes etc.

20?0 coNcoRDANTIA BIBLI0RUM OBDINE ALPHABETICO FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIII.

T w o c o n n e c t e d l e a v e s , v e l l u m , fo l i o ( 2 8 8 : 2 1 0 m M . ) , 3 c o l u m n s t o t h e p a g e , with about 53 lines to the column, fine round Gothic script, red a1d_ltfgfg ,uj."ph-*urks, contains DOCTRINA-DOMINUS, EJECTUS-ELIGERE.

Northern France second half Thirteenth century f 40r-.

207t DICTA PHILOSOPHORUM ANTIQUORUM (EX ETHICORUM LIBRIS AR,ISTOTELIS, TIMAEUS PLATONIS, DICTA SOCRATIS'

EMPEDOCLIS ET ALIIS AUCTORITATIS) FRAGMENTUM

saEc. xrv.

Two connected leaves on vellum, 8vo. 200:150 mM., double columns with remaining 48 lines to the column, neat small Gothic script with many abbre- viations, "red

rubrics an initials, lower part and side-margin cut away with loss of some text, fols. x and xv from a codex.

Eastern Germany Fourteenth century f 35,-.

2072 DONATUS (AELIUS) DE OCTO PARTIBUS ORATIONIS S. BONIFACIUS ARCH. MOGUNTINI. DE FOENITENTIA.

FR,AGMEI{TA SAEC. VUI.

Three leaves on vel,lurn, 8vo and roy (now measuring ab. 180:122 mM. €t 225:165 mM.), long lines, the first two folios on rather thin vellum, folio 3 on stout vellum, two initials P and V, the upper margin with one of two lines cut away, two other margins affected, a tear and a few holes, Iolio 3 in excellent condition.

Swiss (probably St. Gall) about 770 A.D. f 1800'-.

Text: (ed. Keil) p. 358,26: suarn a sua,,et pluraliter,littera e corr(optam) ?l?.?!'112.2^8,t audior, audiar. haec et in-et plusquarnperfecto, amam,ram,aras.at.mus.ratis 360,22; i60,24:

amet,amem.amete vel ametis.atn"trt - praeterito imperfecto i60.i5; 363.12 DE PARTICIPIO - quod dedlinarbitur 363,35; i64,1 hunc et ftranc legentem - adnectens ordinansque senten-

ii ii ' i i :

l l

1 i

i i ,

l r

i i l

ilil i r

i i

tiam. -Interrogatio, 364,33; 364.34 Conjunctione quot accident? - secundum fores 365,20;

365,20: vel post ridium, trans ripam - vel quos lihrt 365.29,

Fol. 3verso: sANcrus 'BONIFACIUS AROHI Eplscopus DIXIT: euomodo

possumus poenitentiarn septem annorum etc... (in fine) cum lacrymis (confiteri) -(Migne.

Patrol. Lat. LXXXIX, col. 887 ff.)

Impottance: The earliest-manuscript of the Ars Minor of Donatus is said to rbe the codex Leidensis 122' of. t}e lOth c_entury, the fragments described Ov 1"n."r in the Sitzunqs- berichte. f.d.Bay'r. _Akademie, January_1931 contain lines in unciil script "r it,.-01r, il"t"iv, i.e. K-e!!-p.- 355.2-356.6, 356.29-357.4, 359.4*16 (18). The Codef Berottnensis Santeriii saec. vIIIhas only_the Ars.Major_and a few extracts irom the Ars Minor. Tht;;;;;";l;;;;;

may -thus be regarded as the earliest ms. extant of this famous schoolbook.

- . Variant rcadings. There are more variants than in the uncial-iirres described bv Lehman.n. Two important readi'gs occur in the present leaves, not t.-1" ,r.*J'"ii,-;i other ms.:

?. !60]7 ff. conjugates ,,amo"; the usual texts conjugate the verb ,,Lego"

b. Each _qggttgl -b_ggins with (wriuen in semi-uniia"1s): INTERRcEarro, the answer with RESPONSUM

- .Wdting:, A mixture of Carlovtngian and late Merovingian minuscule. The occurence of the uncial a shows an advance towards the _Caroline .ii..tr.ol". Etpeciuliv'""t"*.iiifry are: the double-c shaped a, the thick clubt'ed end stroke of 6, the elong'ations o[ the lower part of the vertical strokes of d, high-shouldered r and small g with ope"n U"*, 111".""lngiu"

u, lom,bardic e and merovingian abtrreviation for -tur.

About_the importance of Donatus in mediaeval times see prof. w. J. chase, the Ars Mino-r of Donatus (Llniversity of Wisconsin Studies, nr. 11, 1926). "-

^ Importance of the Bonifatius-texf. tllone of the earlier -r.. ur.iib" this short treatise to St. Bonilace and the authorship has consequently been much discussed.-

2073

2474

GLOSSARIUM LATINUM FRAGMENTA SAEC. IX.

Four connected leaves -on vellum, 4to, now measuring 230:195 mM., lower margin missing with a.few lines and.right-hand margin of fol. 2 E l cut away with loss of text, small upright Carolinl script, red liitials and rubrics of later date, margins somewhat glue-stained otherwise in sound condition. Frrr type- written transcript subjoined.

4n important and untecorded glossaty.

Austria mid Ninth century / 600'-' Texf. Fol. 1r. Iturae montanae, fol. 4v. (in fine) Mathusala mortuus est et rnisit.

.glossary contains a'bout 400 Latin words and their "*pl;;;ii;n. Txre sou"ces of

this vocabulary are very interesting, there is no doubt the cornpilator made use of a ms. of Plautus comedies, which is obvious from the occurence of many old-Latin words and such words as: rnuricida and rneticolosus,

A special feature of the- present leaves ls the fact that the words are in the case and :o.niugation as cgpied from_ the original sources and therefore not always in the nominetiv,rs, Cf. l ransactions of the American philol. ass, 1884,.

HOMILTARTUM FRAGMENTA SAEC. XrlXU.

Three leaves, vellum, roy. folio, 425 :282 mM., double columns, magnificent bold writing with 50 lines to the column, semi-uncial rubric and large initial ln red, lpper-margin of fol. 2 cut away with the loss of a few lines, oiherwise in excellent and sound condition.

Northern Italy ibout 1f00 A.D. / 950,-.

Fragments from what must trave been a most sprendid rnanuscript. To this type of rvriting we find the scribes of tt-re l5th century reveiting in onder to obtain u ,nod"l fo,.

their mss. of the renaissancc. The exactness with which" tt* -*riiirg

i-. h"." executed is truly marvellous and was o_nly rivalled, not surpassed, by the fi;i;i"J handiwork of iti later imitators. (Thompso^n, L_at. paleogiaphy no.'lg0). '

lhe text contains st. Augastinus. Sermo ?y ([.a,lgn"-vol. XXXIX col.2043,3 ff.) and sr..leo. sermo LXV (de passio Domini XIV feria tVj naig;"-;oi.-rrv col.36i.;;l fol. 2 contains a not identified homilv.

10

2075 HOMILIABIUM FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XII INEUNTIS.

One leaf on vellum, folio (330:235 nM.), double columns with 33 lines of fine Caroline script to the column, red initials and rubrics in uncials, apart from a stain in very good condition.

rhe text consisrs or homiries or Hasmo, ;,"o.l?\lt*,,::r"# llll i;i f 65'-'

,fol. 1r: . .. exiget a vobis si non (Hom. CXXXVII, usque ad: Da illis secundum operam eorum) FIom, CXXXVIII (Matth. XXII) llb eo ternpore guo totius mundi monar-

.itiu - fol. lv (in fine):..In veritate com,peri, quoniam non est.. (fuIigne P.L'CXVIII, cols. 733-341.

2076 HORAE FRAGMENTA SAEC. XV.

N i n e l e a v e s o n v e l l u m , s m . 4 t o ( 1 9 5 : 1 5 0 m M . ) b e a u t i f u l l y w r i t t e n i n o l d Dutch language throughout, small initials in gold and silver and with a rubric entirely written in gold, in very clean condition with wide margins, boards.

Low countries mid Fifteenth century f 125,-.

fol. 1r: wort overvloedelic uitgestort, fol. 9 verso (in fine) . . wysheit dat ic myn leven , . .

2077 JOHANNES DE BOLOGNA. ARS DICTAMTNTS (SUMMA NOTARIAE) CUM GLOSSIS FRAGMENTA SAEC. XV.

Four leaves on paper, 4to, written in an elegant ltalian hand, the extensive commentary by the same scribe, blank spaces left open for initials, in very clean condition.

Italy about 1400 A.D. f 35,-.

.The irnportant fragment happens to contain the beginning of the work which is still unpublished. Compare Bethman'Fliolweg. Civilprozess (1874), VI.188-93, Fabricius. Bibl"

med. aev. IV.166(59), Mazzuchelli, Scritt. Ital. (1762) Il, lll 2469, Quellen zur Bayr.

Geschichre (1361) IX, 2595*602, Archiv. f. iilt. Deutsch. Geschichtskunde VII. 68.

2O7B LAUDES BEATAE MABIAE VIR,GINIS SAEC. XIV.

Six leaves on vellum, sm. 8vo (1'15:105 mM.), neat Gothic minuscule, nume' rous red rubrics and initials with marginal scrolls, in excellent condition. From the Forrer collection. Red morocco.

about 1300 A.D. f 165,-.

Portion from an early French prayer book, partly in the vernacular. observe ki tot qui in line 2 on fol. 5v. The rns. contains litanies of St, Quirino, St. Nicasius, St. Elasius, St.

Forlanus, Oiatio sancti Ambrosii ante missam. Qant on se licii de sen lit onse doit seigner et dire: in nomine etc, En alant a sainte eglise on droit dire:..., and other rubrics in old French followed by sequences in t[-atin. The last two ieaves are occupied by hymns to the Holy Virgin in rhyming old French versesr

Ave sainte marie secoures as carcis

et moi qui en memoire vous ai en tous dis etc. 18 lines Ave sainte marie tu qui ton fils portas

Ciceles vertus gui tu par ton fils as etc. 21 lines.

Ave sainte marie fille de creatour

qui mieux vaut penitanche qui mort de pecheor etc. 20 lines etc. etc,, together 90 lines of rhyrning verse.

2079 LECTIONARIUM FRAGMENTUM SAEC. IX.

One leaf on vellum, 4to (225:180 mM.), fine Caroline script, 25 long lines

uo the page, initials and rubrics in brownish red, in very good condition.

Low countries (Meuse) about 850 A.D. f tr60,-.

A fine leaf with portions of the Gospel acc. to St. IMatthew (X111.24...25 et abiit), Colossians III.5-11, St. Matthew XXII.39-XXIII.12.

2OBO LECTIONARIUM FRAGMENTUM SAEC. X.

Gne leaf on vellum, 4to (200:175 mM.), 21 long lines to the page, upright Caroline script, red and black initials, traces of folding.

Low countries (Meuse?) Tenth century f 70r-.

With portions of the Gospels (St. Matthew, St, Marc d Hebrews).

2OB1 LECTIONARIUM FBAGMENTA SAEC. XII.

Four connected leaves, vellum, 4to (215:165 mM.), long lines with late Caroline script, red rubrics and initials, upper-margin of fol. I E 2 cut away with the loss of a few lines, otherwise in good condition.

Eastern Germany Twelfth century f 120,-.

With portions of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and the Prophets.

2082 LUCANUS (M.A.) DE BELLO CrVrLr FRAGMENTA SAEC. XV.

Six leaves on vellum, 4to (275:195 mM.), early humanistic script, first letter of each verse marked yellow, red and blue paragraph-marks, two initials in gold on blue back-grounds, four pages stained and rubbed and with traces of folding.

Italy (Florence?) about 1430 A.D. f 110,-.

1r: Tolluremque nichil mutato sole timentem (Lib. I v. 49).

6v (in fine) 'fu guoscumque voles in pianum effendere muros (v.383).

2OB3 MACER FLOEIDUS. CARMEN DE VIRTUTIBUS HERBARUM FRAGMENTA SAEC. XIII.

T w o l e a v e s o n v e l l u m , s m . 8 v o n o w m e a s u r i n g 1 5 0 : 1 1 2 m M . , ca 28 lines of verse to the page, .red initials, early Gothic script, lower part of page 1 glue- stained affecting the text, in very good condition,

Northern France ca. 1230 A.D. f 80,-.

The writir:g much resemb'ies the Roman de Troie ms, A.D. 1237 in the Biblioth€que de I'Arsenal, Paris.

There are rnarginal glosses.

Text, fol. ,1r; Althaea (Vulnera quae..., ed, Choulant

( X I I . . . . Q u o s v e r t i g o . , 5 0 3 ) . IX.391), Salvia (XXIV), Sabina FoI. lv: Cerefolium (Cum orno ciet... v.936, XXVII), Rosa (...Illius succum v.

784, XXr).

t-o_I, 21:__$aurella (Istud idem... v. 1923, LX), Iusguiamus (...Miconis pariter...

v, 1952, LXll.

lpJ, 2u; Ostrutium (Hunc si... v. 927, XXVI), Buglosa (XXXIV), Serpiltium (XXXIX), ...Iactantes rnire potus, v. 1339).

The author Odo de Meudon, commonly called Macer Floridus, flourished in the last half of the i0th century. A famous mediaeual poem on the oiftues of hefts.

Fol.

Fol.

t 2

t

t

2OB4 MIRACULUM SANCTI CASSIANI AUGUSTIDUNENSIUM _ VITA SANCTI EUSEBII PRESBVTERI FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XII.

One leaf on vellum, 8vo (811:5 inches), Caroline script, red initial and rubric in rustic capitals, numerous other letters marked red.

ca. 1150 A.D. f 40,-.

f o l , 1 r : . . . e x p r e s s i t . G e r m a n u s i g i t u r a n t i s s i o d o r e n s i s e p i s c o p u s . , . ( i t r f i n e ) : i n saecula

saeculorum. Amen. DE SANCTO EUSEtslO. EODEM TEMPORE QUO LIBERIUS de exilio revocatus (Mombritius. Sanct. I, p. 159 (col. cclviij).

(in fine, fol. 1v.): . . . invocantern purum sacerdotem.

The legend of St. Cassian is rnentioned by Migne. Patr. Lat, vol, 124, col. 335, accor- ding to a ms. at Antwerp.

Sf. Cassran, Bishop of Autun, probably an Egyptian by birth, succeeded St. Reticius in the Bishopric See. He died A.D. 350.

St. Eusebius, a Roman priest, ended his days in a prison (A.D. 357) during the Arian troubles.

2OB5 MISSALE LATINUM FR,AGMENTUM SAEC. XI.

One leaf on stout vellum, lto (275:215 mM.), bold Caroline minuscule red initials, lower margin cut away with the loss of a line or two, traces of folding in the margin and somewhat glue-stained.

For. lv: Haec hostia domire quis emundet....:""*uttt

about 1000 a'D' f 48'-'

2086 MISSALE LATINUM FBAGMENTUM SAEC. XIII.

Two connected leaves on vellum, 4to (330:240 mM.), double columns, fine bold writing, red initials and rubrics, upper part with a few lines of text missing, in clean condition throughout.

Northern Italy early Thirteenth century f 48,-.

MORT DE GAR,IN LE LOIIERAIN.

Fragment on vellum, 140 :32 mM., double columns, neat Gothic script with 20 lines of verse from this famous eoic,

France late Thirteenth century f 60,-.

Text: verses 607-11,640-44,675-78 A 204-09 acc. to the edition Edelstand du M€ril (1862). With many important variant readings.

2OBB OBITUARIJM ECCLESIAE SANCTI EVODItr ANNECIENSIS FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIII.

One leaf on vellum, 4to, 335 :245 mM., fine calligraphy, the dates written in red, with many proper names.

France (Le Puy, Annecy) end Thirteenth century f 24r-.

Fol. 1r: Eodem die commemoratio Willelmi geiriidi et omnium consanguineorum eius.

eodem die obiit Willelmus de Chaptolio clericus, gui dimisit clericis aniciensis...

2089 FAPTAS LOMBARDUS (SAEC. Xr) ELEMENTARTUM DOCTBINAE ER,UDIMENTIJM SAEC. XII EXEUNTIS.

Vellum, 63 leaves folio, 370: 260 mM., double columns with 36-37 lines o[

eariy Gothic script to the column, 4 large initials, 2 of which in red and blue with ornamental design and marginal elongation, a few geornetrical and other 2087

designs in simple outline in the text, the soutces are indicated in red in the mar;ins, a few contemporary glosses, in clean condition throughout and with full margins, red morocco.

Northern France late Twelfth century f 550,-.

Fol. 1r: NABAL, stultus vel insipiens int€rpretz'tur.'.

fol. 63v' (in fine) ,., qud tempus sit, et moaus (orultus) A very fine fragment from this famous encyclopaedic bool Cmnared with the first edition (Milan 1476) this codex p

book, containing the letters N-Q Compired withihe first edition (Milan 1476) ex presents better readings' as e.g'

incuaable:

Nabuchodonozor proPhetiae a n g u s t a e . , . . . .

our ms.:

Nabuchodonozor prophetia langunculae angustae...

Thl present fragment contains the long_treatise (ll -columns with explicative drawings in the margins) on ligns of abbreviatioq (l.lOTA), the lirst part of which is derived from 1.1j"*,-tt! main par-t however from the lost work of the Roman gram.marian Valerius

Probus (first centuiy A.D.) cf. Mommsen. M. Valerius Probus de notis antiquis._

-

a-d"S the many .ou..", quotgl in the margins: Gregory j.t-re Great, Virgil, Boethius, L.r.u+--A"i,brosius, Priscian, Pliny, Fulgentius, Seivus, Solinus, Cicero, Seneca, Hieronymus etc. etc.----

T,"r" are many other interesting references- to PLANETS, BR.EAD, PLATO etc.

The earliest rnss. of this book are of the l2th century'

2O9O ROBERTUS DE GROSSETESTE EPISC. LINCOLNIENSIS.

DICTA FRAGMENTA SAEC. XIV.

Two leaves on vellum, f.olio,325t222 mM., double columns with 61 lines to the column, English book-hand, blue initials with pen-flourishes, red paragraph- marks, margins-glue'stained.

England second half Fourteenth century f 18'-.

fOI.2T: EXPLICIUNT DICTA I'INCOLNIENSIS' INCIPIT TABTILA EORUMDEM DICTOR.UM.

fol. 2v (in fine) EXPLICIT TABULA BREVIS'

2091 ROMAN DE LA ROSE FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

Fragment on vellum, 180 : 85 mM., double columns, the upper-part {rom a leaf with" remaining I I lines to the column, red rubric and initial with blue scroll- work, neat bold Gothic script'

France (Southern) Fourteenth century f 80'-.

Contains vv. 16290-16300, 16326-16336, 16364*l$74 A 16400-16410, rvith variani readings. An attractive specirnen from this famous French poem on Love'

2Og2 SENECA BHETOR,. EPITOME IN CONTROVER,SIAS EXEMPLA EX DTVERSTS RECOLLECTA (GESTA ROMANORUM'

DIALOGUS CR,EATURAR,IIM ETC.) GUALTHERUS ANGLICUS. LIBER ESOPI.

MIR,ACULA GLORIOSAE VIBGINIS MAR,IAE.

ST. GREGORIUS MAGNUS. EXEMPLA DE LIBR,IS DIALOGORUM.

EXCERPTA DE MORIBUS ET VITA PHILOSOPHOR,UM (DTOGENES LAERTTUS, WALTER BURLEY ANGLTCUS ETC.).

EPITAPHIA, CODEX CHART. SAEC. XV INEUNTIS.

Paper, 151 leaves, {to,2l5:145 mM., neat small Italian book-hand, red ini- tiais rubrics and pafagraph-marks, fol. 1-4 with stains, the following _leaves are missing: fol. i I 2, the last 5 leaves of the 4th quire, the {irst of the 5th 1 4

and the 7th-8th quire. otherwise the ms, is in very good condition, there is a d a t e ( 2 8 . 5 . 1 1 1 0 ) o n f o l . 3 6 r .

Northern Italy early Fifteenth century f 340,-.

fol.3a Seneca Rhetor, Controwrsiae, Lirber l. Declamatio 3 a, lex. Incesta saxo deiciatur. Cassus. Incesta id est poluta a consanguineo uel ab alio saxo deiciatur. There are followrng extracts out of these controversia oI the elder Seneca (The lather of the philo- sopher) and of the following: l. 4-8. ll. | (9)-7 (15). III. l-9. IV' 1. 6-8. Vl. 4. 3.

These extracts are longer and different from those edited by Kiessling and H. Mueller according to a transmission preserved by several manuscripts. As the lost Carta I a and 2 a was undou,btedly containing ,Contr. L l and 2, the books I-III and V are com,plete, IV and VI have been ,partly summarized.

The epitome are important as they contain Sre lost books 3-6 6 8 of the original text (compare Handb. der Klass. Altert. Wissensch. ed. Muller, VIII' 2'1 p. 473) The epitome rxerc made in the 4th century A.D. and were published iby Brnsian'

fol.36a (fol.34 v) : Incipiunt exempla ad diversas matelias recolecta ex diversis libbris et primo de vana gloria mundi, mille COOC. X.28 maddi (sic). Urbi primo de potentia magna alexandri , , . This part is containing extracts from various ,mediaeval and classical authors and anthologies and other texts to be found again in the Gesta Romanorum, the Dialogus creaturarum etc. but with important variant readings. On Carta 39 a, there is in the column De pietate Italian poetry,

fol. B2a: Incipiunt liber Esopi. There are following the Aesopian fabels in the order of Gualtherius Anglicus (Anonymus Neveleti) r.n that way that No. I and 2 give the com- plete ela,boration of the verses of this author and the tale is repeated and next follow practical applications in prose, but Irom here on there are o:rly prosaic adaptions, not iiterally corresponding to one of the prose'wordings given by 'Ftrervieux and Thiele of the Romulus and its lurther formations, At the end of each fable there are annexed as vers€s to be impressed on the memory of the reader, the endverses of the Anonymus, containing the moral. No. 2 of the Anonymus has fwo parts. De Atheniensi us petentibus regem with tie end-verses 21. 13*14 and de ranis petentibus r€gem with the endverses of 21 as the moral.

fol. 128a-146b: Legend of Maria. De ave Maria' Legitur guod fuit quidam monachus '..

fol. 147 a: Incipiunt aliqua exempla excerpta de libris dyalogorum (St. Gregorii Magni).

De abstinencia. Venatii quondam... (Migne, Scr. lat. 77, 153 C), Extracts mostly literally, from al1 4 books. There are joined more recent parts of kindred contains. f. e. Carta 160a.

De vita beati Francisci.

fol. 167 C: infrascri'pte sunt alique extractiones de mori"bus et vita philosophorum. Fertur quoC talles (sic) phylosophus asianus... These extracts are supposed to be made according to Diogenes Laertius, as far as they are referring to Greek philosophers, otherwise Walter Burley may have served as source.

fol. 191 and verso with numerous funeral poems in honour of St. Jerome, Petrarch, Seneca, Dante, Virgil, and in honour of a certain Nicolas ,,episcopus et comes Tergesti ordinis rninorum," with date 1416.

2093 PASSIO SANCTOR,UM AFOSTOLORUM PETRI ET PAULI (acra aPocRYPHA) FRAGMENT{JM SAEC. XI.

Orre leaf on vellum, f.olio (295: 180 mM.), good Caroline script, 28 long lines to the page, in excellent condition.

Low Countries (Meuse) mid Eleventh century f 60'-.

f o l . 1 r : i a m v o c a t u s e s . 8 a d t o r m e n t a f e s t i n a s ( e d . L i p s i u s 4 9 . 1 7 ) . f o l . 1 v ( i n f i n e ) : . . . N e r o d i x i t : S u s p e c t o . . . ( L i ' p s i u s 5 7 . 3 ) .

2094 PASSIO SANCTI GENESIX NqIMI ET MARTYEIS ROMAE SUB DIOCLETIANO - DE DECOLLATIONE S. JOE{AI{NA.E

EAPTIST'AE F'BAGMENT'UM SAEC. XI/XTI.

Fragment on vellum, lower part from a leaf in folio now measuring 280:190

, l

J

-M., double columns, fragmentary red initial, fine bold writing, in very clean condition.

Northern Italy about 1L00 A.D. f 42,-.

Fol. 1r: illum: quem ego vidi et adoravi et adoro ...in caelo et in tota (,Passio S. Gen, Mombr. I 598.13-19).

c o l . 2 : . . . r i s i n q u o g u a r t u m e r a t p i l a t o p r o c u r a t i o n i s . . . ( f o l . 2 , i n f i n e ) : a l i q u i d f i e r e t a n t i c i p a r e h o ( . . . ) .

S. Genesius of Rome, a comedian v&o, while Baptism, was miraculously converted and thereupon time in Diocletian's reign. (A.D. 284-AD. 305).

mimicking the Christian ceremony of put to the torture and beheaded, some

: liili,

i:

2095 PASSIO SANCTI JACOBI APOSTOLI FILII ZEBEDtrI - BEDA HOMILIA IN VIGIT,IA SANCTI JOANNIS BAPTISTAE

FR,AGMENTUM SAEC. XI.

One leaf on vellum, sm. folio (290:185 mM.), 29 long lines to the page of very good Caroline script, red initial and rubric, in very good condition.

Low countries (Meuse?) late Tenth or early f 55,-.

Eleventh century.

Text. fol.1r: accipe penitentem -fol.1v (in fine Passio S, Jacobi); in saecula saeculorum.

amen. BAF... IN VIGILIA SCI JOFTANNIS. Venturus in carne (Migne P. Lat. vol.

XCIV. Homilia,e genuinae nr. XIII).

The text of the Passio in Mombritius. Sanct. vol. II o. 37.

2096 PASSIO SANCTI LAUBENTII LEVITAE ET MARTYRIS FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XIIXU.

One leaf, vellum, folio (335:225 mM.), beautiful bold script of the best type, double columns, upper margin cut away with the loss of a line or two, other- wise in excellent condition.

Northern Italy about 1100 A.D. i 7A,-.

fol. 1r: eum beatus Laurentius: crede in fotium.

fol. 1v (in fine)... blasphemare noli: tunc beatus (Mombritius. Sanct. 11 92,44-93,47).

2097 PETRUS DE CBESCENTTIS (DE BOLOGNA). RUEALIUM COMMODOR,UM LIBRI FEAGMENTA SAEC. XIV.

2 2 l e a v e s , p a p e r , 4 t o ( c a . l 0 r l : 8 i n c h e s ) , s m a l l G o t h i c s c r i p t w i t h a b o u t 4 0 lines to the page, red initials and paragraph-marks, a few marginal glosses in

German (15th centuruy), some leaves restored, morocco.

Northern Italy ca. 1370-1400 A.D. f 140,-.

An important fragment. The leaves are consecutive as follows:

1 ( B o o k l l ) , 2 - - 8 ( , b o o k I V ) , 9 - 1 4 ( b o o k l V , 1 5 - 2 1 ( b o o k V ) , 2 2 ( b o o k V ) . T h e y contain the chapters on the oine-culture and on the arboilcultute.

The author, born ca, 1230, dieed 1320 A.D. was jurisconsult but with a sp,ecial pre- dilection for physic sciences. The Ruralium Commodorum Liber was written ca. 1304 A.D..

and it is the only work in Latin on agriculture since Palladius in the middle-ages. The work is of high quality and the classification oI the material is exemplary.

Compare E. H. Meyer. Geschichte der Botanik vol. IV, pp. 138-_,159.

2098

One leaf and blue

I O

PETRUS LOMBAR,DUS PARXSIENSIS EPISCOPUS.

SENTENTIABUM LIBER, FtsAGMENTUM SA,EC. XIII EX.

on vellum, 4to, 290: 230 mM., fine Gothic script, double cols., red initials with pen-flourishes, red rubrics, some marginal glosses, recto.

slightly glue-stained and rrith a small tear in the centre, otherwise in clean condition'

France late Thirteenth century f 14'.-

T e x t : r e c t o : ( i p s e ) D e u s g u i h i c l o g q ! $ e s t ( L i b . I I d i s t . 3 3 K ) _ v e r s o ( i n f i n e ) ' . . ' . . u b i autem bonum (non est) (Lib. Il,dist. 31D)'

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Itt on" gloss Hugo de St. Victore is rnentioned'

2099 PB,ISCIANUS GRAMMATICUS CAESAR.IENSIS. INSTITUTIONES GRAMMATICAR,UM FRAGMENTA MEMBR,. SAEC. XIII.

Two leaves on vellum, 8vo, 218 : 148 mM., small neat GothT script- with 32 tono tirr", to the page, red initial with blue pen-flourishes, red and blue para-

;"ih;'il,-;Isiiiyi'rn and stained' sold'

Northern France or Belgium Thirteenth century

F o l . l r : ( c o r r i p i t u r } , u t J u v e n a l i s i n p r i m u m ( B k . X V I I I . 6 2 | * f o l . l v ( i n f i n e ) ...Sallustius in Ca (tilinarlo). 69,

Fol.2r: (tectum integrum) que esset, tamen aliquid (Bk. xvIII. 118) ,- fol.2v (in fine) ...ut,,oro te", quid (habet etiam passivum]'

irr" p**"i riug.""f,.oniui" itoti""t fiom luuenalis' A':',!::.-9'ieto' Vitsil' Teterrce

"^a Eir"tri, ihe cit;Uo;s frc- tt. Greek have, however, been omitted by the scri'be'

*'-

lt;;;, Ro."'. gt"ut'gtt;.rian, flourished about 450 A.D' In his institutiones he has p*r.."J'iun' fr"dJ; ito"i .i"itii"t authors which would otherwise have been lost'

2100 THOMAS DE AQUINO. SUMMA THEOLOGICAE FBAGMENTA

SAEC. Xrrr/xrv.

Three leaves on vellum, folio, 310: 190 mM., double columns, good Gothic

;tpq i"J u"a ltue initiats with marginal scrolls and pen-work decoration, red paragraph-marks, in sound condition'

Southern Gerrnany about 1300 A'D' f 28,-'

fol. /: (Augustinus dicit in libro 2' de li'bero arbitrio """rebus verba visilibus adduntur, (quia-unum eorum) (Liber III, Q' 60, art' 4' 3 - art'-6)'-

fol- 2: (sacram"ntu. a-uirtf"J quuodu. exceilentiam - quibusdam presbyteris concedit uor'Gri. it-inot"t ordines). (LiUer ift' Q' 72' att' 8 - art' ll)'

| o 1 . 3 : k N e l q u a n d o ) n o n p o t e s t p e c c a t r r m - p a s s i o r e c o l i t u r p r o u t ( r e a l i t e r g e s t a e s t ) f Liber !II'O. 82, art. 9, 3-Q. 83' art' 2' 2\ '

2101 VFIRSUS DE VADO MOEI - VERSUS (DE VANITATtr MUNDI) FR.{GMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

Two connected leaves, vellum, sm. 4to, (145 t125 nM.) 26 lines of verse to ,ft" p"g", first letter of each verse crossed by a vertical re{,s,111k-e'-f age2I3 with 15th century annotations, partly written over the text. With full transcript'

Silesia second half Fourteenth century f 35'-'

A very interesting item. AccordinS- t9_,Ch-ey9lier, Repertorium Flymnologicum nr. .3,4296, onlv one other ms. t."a.'Ir4o,nu.-Cft*iOOtS, l6th, century) of this poem.is known, pubiished i"',i"r,'il,'i"s"-iaS'.r - ih" Anol".tu fl'ymnica with considerable variants horvever'

fol. tri Vaao mori praesul baculurn sandalia mitram nolens sive volens desino v'ado rnori

Vado mori, rex sum, quid honor, quid gloria mundi?

est via mors hominis regia, vado mori etc'

for. lv (in ri,'") eiP'iiditilltfVrpsus ur vADo MoRI QUI BENE PossuNT

IUORTIS SPECIES COMPARARI.

fol. 2r: Iterum criminibus, sic sum denigrata

Parte caro misera sicgue reprobata etc' fol. 2v (in fine) et veneno demoniis nequiter inbuta

preciosis vestibus non es nunc induta'

2702 vrra ET aCTUS BEltrI JorraNNES A['osrolr cuM PEor,oGo

EX LIBBO CTIRONICOPUUM FRECUI,PHI I,EXOVIENSIS FBAGMENTUM SAEC. XII INEUNTIS.

one leaf on vellum, folio, 375 :225 mM., double columns with 36 lines to the col, bold Caroline script, r-ed initials, right-hand margin cut away with loss of a few letters, waterstained,

Northern Italy early Twelfth century f 40,-..

.- Recto: -(re)cum'bens (et) evangelii fluenta de ipsa dominici - in Pathmos insula metallo colligatur..(Migne. Patrol...Lat. vol. 106, col. 1154,-i.e.; Freculph. chronic. lr z, g: i, Mi;;;

, , r e l i g a t u r " f o r , , c o l l i g a t u r " ) .

U b i e t i a m i n c u s t o d i a . p o s i t u s , apocalipsin manu sua -...de h a c l u c e m i g r a v e r a t explicemus (a not identified prologue).

-- - Secuadus post Neronem persecutionem christianorum Domitianus - v€rSo (in fine).

Video vos_et vultus (propter hoc) Mombririus. Sanct. vol. Il 55*56,52.

Freculphus, Bishop of LisiCux (d. 853). famous chronicler.

- ComPare Giov. M. Crescimbeni. L'isioria della chiesa di S, Giovanni avanti Port a Latina, Roma 1716, pp. 6-21.

FRAGMENTUM SAEC. XII.

one leaf on vellum, roy. folio, 520 :325 mM., double columns, beautiful bold Caroline minuscule of the Italian type, 44 lines to the column, cut in two other- wise in very sound condition.

Northern Italy about 1100 A.D. f gb.-.

Fol. 1r: gentibus quae Gallias incolunt habent...

f^oL -1! (in_ fine): ...sed grandi labore praemonris ardux. (Fessis).

- .St. Mar:ltlphus, an_abbot at Coutances in Normandy, famous for miracles in the healing of the sick. He died A.D. 558.

2103 VITA SANCTI MARCULPHI ABBATIS NANTENSIS

2104 VOCA,EULARIUS REBUM FTNAGMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

2105 VOCABULARIUS RERUM FFUAGMENTUM SAEC. XIV.

Lower part from a leaf in large folio, now measuring 295 :200 mM., three columns to the page, very neat Gothic script, red and-blue initials, somewhat water-and glue stained otherwise a nice specimen.

Austria early Fourteenth century f ZZ,-.

Letters LIBRLIM-LIDIA. ve-ry_interesting^leferences, e.g. LyBIA (21 lines), LILIA (10 lines) and 27 lines referring to,LIBER (the BOOK).

2106 CENSUS ET DEBITAX,IA MINORIS ASSENCAE ECCT,ESIAE SANCTI MARCELLI ET CANONICORUM P.S,UPERUM EEATAN

MAR,TYRIS ANICI SAEC. XIV.

six leaves on vellum, folio,330:235 mM., double columns. fine bold Gothic

1 B

one leaf on vellum, folio, 280 : 200 mM., double columns with 43 lines to the column, blue and red initials_ with _marginal scrolls, red paragraph marks, neat Gothic script, in rather good condition-.

Germany first half Fourteenth century f 24,-.

Contains the letters BACHII\TALUS BALIM from_ a mediaeval glossary. There are very igleleptj{s_f_f;'rences, e,g.-BADIUS: brown, chest-nut coioured, used oniy of horses, BACTRSS,

(CABALLUS dicitur vel cavallus qui pede cavat terram veI...). '

script, red paragraph-marks and rubrics, first page much rubbed and stained, otherwise in rather good condition and apparently a complete manuscript.

FRANCE (LE PUY) mid Fourteenth century f 60,-,

fulany proper-names; in territorio de Milauras, de las Granuras, de Pessa en Chairada, de Formoz-s etc. etc.

A list of tithes collected on fields and especially on vineyards.

MISCELLANEOUS ILLUMINATED I,EAVES ON VELLUM.

2107 ANTIPIIONER, 530 :410 mM., one leaf, music on red 4-lines bar, fine boid Gothic script, large initial 0 (80 : B0 mM.) in blue and orange and other colours, composed of a pattern of leaf-work, other initials in red and blue, with scrolls.

Northern Italy (Siena) Fourteenth centurY / 40,-.

2108 ANTIPHONER, one leaf, 520 :375 mM. music on red 4-1ines bar, three fine initials in red, blue and magenta on blue grounds' beautiful bold calligraphy.

Italy early Fourteenth century f 22,-.

2109 ANTII'HONER, ?20 :550 mM., 39 leaves, music on red S-lines bar.

large Gothic script, numerous red and blue initials with pen-work dec_o- rati,on, large ornamental initials in black, one large initial D (215 : 120 mM.) in blue and red with fine scroll-work decoration, the leaves are consecu- tive. a very attractive item, boards, ieather back.

Southern Germany about 1400 A.D. f 450,-.

2110 BOOK OF HOURS, five leaves, 1?0:110 mM', numerous initials in gold on grounds of blue and mauve, interlinear decoration in similar co- lours, Gothic script, boards.

Nortirern France about 1400 A.D. f 60,-.

2lll BOOK OF IIOURS, eight leaves, 1Ba: 130 mM', Gothic script, nu- merous initials in gold and colouls on colpured grounds, twelve larger initials with thorn-Ieaf decoration in the rnargins, interlinear decoration in blue and gold, boards.

Northern France Fifteenth century f 90'-.

2112 BOOK OF HOURS, four leaves, 170 : 115 mM., numerous initials on gold grounds similar interlinear decoration, boards.

France late Fifteenth century f 36,-.

2113 BtrBLE, (LATIN), five leaves, double colurnns, roy. Bvo, very neat smail Gothic script, portion of the Book of Kings, with a fine initial S on a gold ground consisting of scroll-work ending into two human faces, bcard.s.

England late Thirteenth century f 120,-.

2114 MISSAL, 18 leaves, 4to, 330 :240 mM., nice angular Gothic script, numerous red and blue initials with pen flourishes, red rubrics, four larger