Cassiodorus, Oratio ( Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
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Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius 490-583
Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580
Author: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Cassiodorus Senator
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Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, senator, 485?-580?
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Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts
written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the
chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been
written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v:
Cassiodorus, Oratio , excerpted from the Institutiones book 1 ( De
Institutione Divinarum Litterarum ), chapter 33. ff. 2v-5r:
Cassiodorus, Institutiones , book 2 ( De Artibus ac Disciplinis
Liberalium Litterarum ), preface (ff. 2v-5r), beginning: 'Superior
liber, Domino prestante', followed by capitula (f. 5r). ff. 5v-52r:
Cassiodorus, Institutiones , book 2 ( De Artibus ac Disciplinis
Liberalium Litterarum ); De Grammatica , imperfect (ff. 5v-7v); De
Rhetorica (ff. 7v-14v); De Dialectica (ff. 14v-31v); De Arithmetica
(ff. 31v-38v); De Musica (ff. 38v-44r); De geometria (ff. 44r-46r);
De astronomia (ff. 46r-49r) ending with the conclusion of book 2
(ff. 49r-52r): 'incipient esse breves quos prius aestimavimus
longiores. Cassiodori Senatoris Liber Institutionum Humanarum
Rerum. Explicit'. f. 53r: Excerpts from an Antiphonal, a chant with
musical notations, beginning: 'Pretiosa Alleluia' written by a late
10th-century hand, followed by two-lines hymn with musical
notations written by a different but contemporary hand, beginning:
'O quam felices'. ff. 53v-55r: Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium
Archiepiscopum Narbonensem (Epistle to Nebridius, archbishop of
Narbonne), describes the revision of the Office antiphonal made by
Helisachar, chancellor (from 808-817) of King Louis the Pious
(reigned 814-840), written by a late 10th-century hand. ff.
55v-69r: A list of verbs. ff. 70r-76v: Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus
Donati . Decoration:Diagrams relating to the seven liberal arts
decorated with Donatus's bust (f. 12r), a winged personification of
Grammar (f. 25v), a monk (f. 39v), animals, such as birds, a lamb,
lions, a bull, a goat, a stag, dogs, a female wolf, and fish, or
stylised flowers, columns, vases, plants or a rudder wheel, in
colours and personifying disciplines and their different parts (ff.
8r, 8v, 10r-11r, 12r, 15v, 17r-18r, 19r-21v, 22v, 25v-26r, 28r,
30v, 32v, 33v-34r, 36v-37r, 39v-40v, 41v, 45v, 47r). Initials and
rubrics in silver, showing the red ground preparation, or red,
often oxidised.
