Computistical memoranda; Ecgberht of York, Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis ; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae ; Hrabanus Maurus, De Computo ; Eight computistical poems; De Septem Miraculis Mundi ; De Duobus Verticibus Mundi ; De Diebus Aegyptiacis ; Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum ; De Vocibus Litterarum ; Greek and Hebrew alphabets with interpretations; Untitled computistical tract; De Sex Aetatibus Hominis ; Isidore of Seville (Pseudo-Gildas), De Natura Rerum ; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Cursu Septem Planetarum per Zodiacum Circulum ; Abbo of Fleury, De Duplici Signorum Ortu ; Three runic alphabets; Calendar [with ‘Dog Days’]; Priscian, Versus de Caelestibus Signis ; Versus de Duodecim Ventis ; Calendar [with ‘Egyptian Days’]; Cummian, Epistola de Controversia Paschali; Bede, Epistola ad Pleguinam de Aetatibus Saeculi; Magister Constabularius, Compotus Constabularii ; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams; Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae ; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester; Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; exemplum
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Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
Original form
Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop 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
Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
ISIDORE
Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
Isidorus
Isidore de Séville
Isidori Hispalensis
Isidori
ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
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
Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
Isidore
Isidore of Seville
Isodore of Seville
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
Isidorus<Hispalensis>
Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
Isidore de Séville (saint)
Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
Isidorus <Hispalensis>
Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
This composite manuscripts contains six parts (f. 3; ff. 4-77; ff.
79-86; ff. 87-107; ff. 109-135 and ff. 136-185) that were produced
between the late 11th and late 12th centuries. The six parts
perhaps may all have been written in England and were probably
joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571,
d. 1631). The second and third part were written at the cathedral
church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Salisbury. The second of the two
Calendars (ff. 72v-77v), however, was produced by a Continental
scribe who was working either on the Continent or in England. The
Calendar contains a number of unusual feasts that can also be found
in the first, English Calendar. This indicates that the Continental
version may have been brought to Salisbury and used there as an
exemplar (Rushford, Atlas (2002), p. 38). Aside from an Old English
text (the Lord’s Prayer), the manuscript contains a variety of
Latin works concerning the computus, calendar, astronomy,
geography, prognostics, grammar, proverbs, theology, and penance.
The manuscript contains a number of important texts: the second
part contains the only extant complete copy of the Dialogus
Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis (Dialogue of Church Institutions) by
Ecgberht (d. 766), Archbishop of York. The third part contains the
only extant copy of the letter on the Paschal controversy by St
Cummian Fada (b. 592, d. 662), Bishop of Clonfert (ff. 79r-83r).
The fourth part contains the only extant copy of the Compotus
Constabularii (1175): a computistical work focusing on the dating
of Easter that was written by an English author who had access to
Arabic scientific materials. A monk from the cathedral priory of
Christ Church, Canterbury, refers to him as ‘Magister
Cunestabulus’. The cathedral priory’s surviving library
catalogue indicates that Christ Church once owned three copies of
this text (Moreton, ‘The Compotus’ (1999), 61-82; Nothaft,
Dating the Passion (2012), pp. 146-54). The manuscript’s second
part’s contents are very similar to those of 10th-century
manuscript Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3507; both manuscripts may
share a common exemplar (see Ker, Medieval Manuscripts , II (1977),
pp. 813-14). Contents:f. 3r: Computistical memoranda. ff. 4v-8r:
Ecgberht of York (d. 766), Archbishop of York, Dialogus
Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis . ff. 8r-10v: Abbo of Fleury (b. c.
945, d. 1004), abbot of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
(On the Difference between the Circle and the Sphere). ff. 10v-40v:
Hrabanus Maurus (d. 856), De Computo (On the Computus). ff.
40v-42v: Eight anonymous computistical poems. ff. 42v-43r: De
Septem Miraculis Mundi (On the Seven Wonders of the World),
beginning: ‘Primum capitolium romae salvium tutius quam
civitas’. ff. 43r-44r: De Duobus Verticibus Mundi (On the Two
Poles of the World), beginning ‘Duo sunt extremi vertices
mundi’. ff. 44r-44v: De Diebus Aegyptiacis (On the Egyptian
Days), beginning ‘Hos dies maxime observare debemus’. f. 44v:
Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum (Order of
Catholic Books to be Read during the Year), beginning ‘In primis
in .lxx. ponunt eptaticum’. ff. 44v-45r: De Vocibus Litterarum
(On the Pronunciation of Letters), beginning 'Omnes vero litterae a
similitudine vocis characteras acceperunt'. ff. 45r-45v: Greek and
Hebrew alphabets with interpretations (also known as
Interpretationes Hebraici et Graeci Alphabetorum ), followed by a
list of names for the Greek numerals. ff. 45v-46r: A computistical
tract on finding Concurrents and Epacts, beginning ‘Si vis scire
concurrentes in nona kalendas aprilis’. f. 46r: De Sex Aetatibus
Hominis (On the Six Ages of Mankind), beginning ‘Prima
infantia’. ff. 46r-63v: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Bishop of
Seville, but here attributed to Gildas (fl. early 6th century), De
Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). f. 63v: A note on the
division of the world among the sons of Noah: ‘Tres filii noe
diviserunt orbem in tres partes post diluvium. Sem in Asia. Cham in
Affrica. Iaphet in Europa’. f. 64r: A T-O world map, with a list
of provinces written for each of the three parts. ff. 64r-64v: Abbo
of Fleury, De Cursu Septem Planetarum per Zodiacum Circulum (On the
Course of the Seven Planets through the Circle of the Zodiac),
incomplete, containing the treatise’s ending only. f. 64v: Abbo
of Fleury, De Duplici Signorum Ortu (On the Double Rising of
Symbols), beginning: ‘De duplici ortu signorum dubitantes’. f.
65r: Three runic alphabets; followed by a runic inscription with a
Latin transliteration above: ‘pax vobiscum et salus pax’. ff.
65v-71r: Calendar [with ‘Dog Days’]. f. 71v: Additions to the
Calendar, added in a contemporary script. f. 72r: [?] Priscian (fl.
500), Versus de Caelestibus Signis (Poem on the Heavenly Symbols),
beginning: 'Ad Boreae partes arcti vertuntur'. f. 72r: Versus de
Duodecim Ventis (Poem on the Twelve Winds), beginning ‘Quatuor a
quadris consurgunt limite venti’. ff. 72v-77v: Calendar [with
‘Egyptian Days’]. ff. 79r-83r: Cummian, Epistola de
Controversia Paschali (Letter on the Easter Controversy). ff.
83r-86v: Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), Epistola ad Pleguinam
de Aetatibus Saeculi (Letter to Plegwin about the Ages of the
World). ff. 87r-97v: Magister Constabularius, Compotus
Constabularii (1175). ff. 98r-98v: Computistical tables.ff.
99r-100v: A computistical treatise concerning calculating epacts
and concurrents; including a section on how to find the dates for
the feasts of the Nativity and Easter without a calendar; and
sections explaining how to calculate dates by using the hand as a
mnemonic device (with four hand diagrams). ff. 101r-107v: An
untitled astronomical treatise, beginning 'Scientia hec a grecis
translata apud latinos'. ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104),
canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of poems. ff.
114r-117r: Godfrey of Winchester (b. before 1055, d. 1107), poet
and prior of the Benedictine monastery of St Swithun, Winchester,
Liber Proverbiorum (Book of Proverbs). ff. 117r-122v: Hildebert of
Lavardin (b. 1056, d. 1133), Archbishop of Tours, Vita Beatae
Mariae Aegyptiacae (Life of St Mary of Egypt), beginning 'Sicut
hiemps laurum non urit, nec rogus aurum'. f. 122v: Hildebert of
Lavardin, De Plagis Egypti (On the Plagues of Egypt), beginning
'Prima rubens unda', imperfect. f. 123r-130r: Collection of poems,
including the works of Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123) and
Hildebert of Lavardin.ff. 131r-132v: Godfrey of Winchester,
collection of poems. f. 132v: Three anonymous untitled poems,
beginning 'Absque metu belli florebat uita Metelli'; ‘Non,
Ernulfe locus, non mille sophismata prosunt’; ‘Cum pater
Augustus me desponsaret Hibero’. ff. 133r-135r: [?] Hugh the
Chanter (d. c. 1140), Versus Hugonis Sotovaginae Cantoris et
Archidiaconi Eboracensis (Poem of Hugh Sottovagina, Chanter and
Archdeacon of York), beginning ‘Philosophus quidam quaesitus quid
sit amicus’. f. 135r: De Abbatis Mitris Utentibus et Deliciose
Viventibus (On the Mitres of Abbots, Their Uses and their Delicate
Lives’, beginning ‘Forma fuit quondam Cluniacus religionis’.
ff. 135r-135v: Two anonymous untitled poems, beginning ‘heu
stolidi qui tam cupidi’; ‘Hugo sacerdoti Willelmo quae tria
voce’. f. 135v: Versus Augustini Canonici (Poem on Augustinian
Canons), beginnig 'Dum vel dictator rudis es vel versificato'. ff.
136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential,
with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r.
f. 184v: The Lords’ Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader
ure be giert on heofena’.f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a
bishop with the ability to tell from the expression on people’s
faces whether they are worthy or unworthy to go to Communion,
beginning ‘Legitur de quidam episcopo’.The manuscript contains
a later addition: f. 4r: A (?) 12th-century title inscription:
‘Rabanus de Compoto’. f. 2r: A table of contents, added by
Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), librarian for Sir Robert Bruce
Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631)[ff. 1r, 1v, 2v, 3v, 51r, 51v, 78r, 78v
are blank]. Decoration:See the descriptions of the separate parts.
