Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 291
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- MS 291
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 291: Computistical Material by Bede and others
- Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione || Beda de temporibus et temporum ratione
- Computistical material || Dissertatio de anno, etc. || De Ratione anni, etc.
- Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum (excerpt on seven wandering stars from chapter 23) || Isidorus episcopus de positione septem stellarum errantium
- Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio uel de paschae celebratione || Beda de aequinoctio
- Texts and tables on calculation || Tabula et ratio numerandi
- Computus tables || Tabulae paschales
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- Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
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- Bede the Venerable
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- Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
- Beda Venerabilis
- Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
- BEDA VENERABILIS
- BEDA
- Beda
- BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
- Bède
- S. Beda venerabilis
- Venerabilis Bedae
- Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
- Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
- S. Beda Venerabilis
- Venerabilis BEDE
- Bede
- Bedae
- Bedae venerabilis
- Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
- Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
- Beda el Venerable, Santo
- Beda Venerabilis 672-735
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Author: Beda, Venerabilis
- Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
- Bede (attributed to)
- Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
- Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
- Bede (673/4–735)
- The Venerable Bede
- Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
- Beda<Venerabilis>
- Bède le Vénérable
- Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
- Beda Scotus
- Beda Venerabilis, ca.673-735
- Beda Venerabilis, ca. 673-735
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
- Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
- Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
- Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
- Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
- Beda <Venerabilis>
- Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
- Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
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- Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
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- Isidore of Seville
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- Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
- S. Isidorus Hispalensis
- Isidorus Hispalensis
- Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
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- Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
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- Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
- Isidore (Saint), de Séville
- Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
- Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
- Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
- Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
- Isidorus van Sevilla
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- Isodore of Seville
- Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
- Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
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- Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
- Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
- Isidore de Séville (saint)
- Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
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- Hisidorus Hispalensis
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- Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus
- Isidorus Hispalensis santo
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- Isidorus Episcopus Hispalensis
- Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
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- Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
- Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
- Isidorus <Hispalensis>
- Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
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- Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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Summary: CCCC MS 291 is a compilation of material concerning the reckoning of time, written at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the late eleventh or early twelfth century. The calculation of the date of Easter, known as computus, is both very complex and very important to the church year; this compilation explains the theoretical calculations as well as providing relevant tables. Bede's De temporum ratione, the main text in the book, was a very popular work in the Middle Ages, and remains a useful guide to computus; but there is an interesting disparity between Bede's insistence that one should be able to divide by nineteen in one's head, and the table on f. 137 which lays out addition, subtraction and multiplication starting with 1 + 1 is 2. At the end the manuscript contains a full Easter table for 1064 to 1595, a complete Dionysiac Great Paschal Cycle (532 years, the product of the 19-year lunar cycle and the 28-year cycle of days of the week). The book is written throughout in late Anglo-Caroline minuscule, although the decorated initials show Norman influence; this gives an interesting insight into the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey after the Norman Conquest.
Contents :
1r-112r - Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione || Beda de temporibus et temporum ratione
Note: (1r) A very gaudy initial to the prologue
rubric: (1r) Incipit Prefatio libri sequentis de natura rerum
incipit: (1r) De natura rerum et ratione temporum duos quondam
Note: (P. L. XC 293, 685)
explicit: (2r) iura custodiat
rubric: (2r) Explicit prefatio
rubric: (2r) Incipiunt capitula (72)
rubric: (3r) Incipit Liber Bedae de temporibus
incipit: (3r) De temporum ratione domino iuuante dicturi
Note: (3r) Very gay initial
Note: Change of scribe at f. 33r (?) and 49r
Note: Ends
explicit: (112r) mereamur accipere palmam
112v-131v - Computistical material || Dissertatio de anno, etc. || De Ratione anni, etc.
incipit: (112v) Ianuarius Augustus et december iiii nonas habent
Note: See the Cologne ed. 1612 I, p. 227
rubric: (113r) Ad feriam inueniendam secundum Dionysium
Note: Ends with
rubric: (130r) De Ratione Bissexti
incipit: (130r) Si nosse desideras
rubric: (130r) De feria kal. Ian.
incipit: (130r) Si uero feria
incipit: (130r) Est etiam argumentum
explicit: (130r) Sic fac de ceteris
Note: (130v) Table of numbers
132r-132v - Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum (excerpt on seven wandering stars from chapter 23) || Isidorus episcopus de positione septem stellarum errantium
rubric: (132r) Ysidori Episcopi de positione vii stellarum errantium
incipit: (132r) In ambitu quippe
explicit: (132v) saturnus xxx
Note: (132v) Names of winds
incipit: (132v) Septentrio Circius
explicit: (132v) Africus. Corus
132v-136v - Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio uel de paschae celebratione || Beda de aequinoctio
Note: Later title (xv)
rubric: (132v) Epistola uenerabili Bede presbiteri de equinoctio iuxta anatholium
incipit: (132v) Reuerentissimo ... fratri uicthed
explicit: (136v) equinoctium fuisse confirmet
137r-138v - Texts and tables on calculation || Tabula et ratio numerandi
Note: The last quire in a much smaller hand of the same school
incipit: (137r) Sicut ratio numeri nimis difficilis
explicit: (138v) uel nongentesimus uel nongesimus
138v-145v - Computus tables || Tabulae paschales
Note: (138v) Space for table
Note: (138v) On the 19-year cycle
incipit: (138v) Subscripta figura in decem et nouem partes
explicit: (139r) aut eiusdem anni epactam siue terminum pascalem
Note: (139r) Table of the 19-year cycle with Concurrents, Epacts, Easters, weeks from Christmas to Easter, from Pentecost to Midsummer, from Pentecost to Advent
incipit: (140v) In subscripto paschali cyclo
explicit: (140v) ultimus lunas diei pasche
Note: (140v) Paschal table from 1064 to 1595
Note: f. 145v blank
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