Manuscript contents
(a)
f.1
r
Modern title: Note on the Origin of the Soul
Date: added 11th/12th century
Incipit: De origine animarum
Explicit: a deo cotidie factas dari, anathema sit
Language: Latin
Cf. Gratian, Decretum C.32 q.2 c.9. f.1v, blank
(b)
f.1
r
Modern title: Contents list
Date: added later 12th century
Language: Latin
Registers items c-e, h-p, r, t, u (possibly including s), v1, v3, w, aa, ab1-4, ac, ad, ae and aj.
(c)
f.2
r-19
r
Original title: Liber quaestionum hebraicarum in Genesim
Incipit: Qui in principiis librorum debebam secuti operis argumenta proponere, cogor prius respondere maledictis
Explicit: qui seruientes altari uiuunt de altari
Language: Latin
A couple of early Nota marks
(d)
f.19
r-36
r
Original title: De situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum
Incipit: Eusebius qui a beato pamphilo martyre cognomentum sortitus est post decem ecclesiastice hystorie libros
Explicit: ubi adonias immolauit uictimas iuxta fontem rogel
Rubric: Incipit liber de distantiis locorum
Language: Latin
In the margin beside the word ‘chorographiam’ in the Preface (f.19r) a 12th century hand has added ‘Chorographia’ in Greek capitals with superscript transliteration, followed by ‘regionum descriptio’.
(e)
f.36
r-61
r
Original title: Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum
Incipit: Aethiopia, tenebras
Explicit: Sathan, aduersarius uel preuaricator
Rubric: Incipit prologus Beati Ieronimi in interpretationes hebraicorum nominum
Language: Latin
(f)
f.61
r
Original title: Interpretatio alphabeti hebreorum
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Aleph, mille uel doctrina
Explicit: Tau signum, uel subter
Language: Latin
Followed by a line and a half of sigla or pseudo-letters.
(g)
f.61
r
Modern title: Interpretation of Greek alphabet and numerals
Incipit: Α alfa Agricola, Β beta uetus
Explicit: ogdacosin dccc, ennacosin dcccc, ΧΨΩ
Language: Latin
This set of interpretations (and others) listed in B. Bischoff, "Das griecische Element in der abendländischen Bildung des Mittelalters" (1951) reprinted in his Mittelalterliche Studien II (1967), 246-75; see also York Minster Library, XVI.I.8.
(h)
f.61
r-71
v
Original title: Quaestiones hebraicae in libros Regum 1-2
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Fuit vir unus de ramatham sophim de monte Ephraim
Explicit: uero sescentis aureis emisse
Rubric: Incipit liber Beati Ieronimi presbiter de questionibus libri Regum
Language: Latin
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3414
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3415
(i)
f.71
v-82
r
Original title: Quaestiones hebraicae in libros Paralipomenon 1-2
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: In diebus eius diuisa est terra quia in diebus eius facta est turris
Explicit: ut ruinas templi restauraret
Language: Latin
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3417
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3418
(j)
f.82
r-82
v
Original title: De decem tentationibus
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Haec sunt verba que locutus est moyses
Explicit: quando me misit moyses ad terram considerandam
Rubric: Incipit de decem temptationibus
Language: Latin
The rubric was supplied in the intercolumnar space by a different hand, written at right-angles to the main text, compare with Beinecke 322.
Stegmüller RBMA 3411
(k)
f.82
v-83
r
Original title: De sex civitatibus ad quas homicida fugit
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Prima ciuitas est, cognitio uerbi
Explicit: Jacob duodecim tribus, Israel decem
Rubric: De Sex civitatibus ad quas homicida Fugit
Language: Latin
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 8940
(l)
f.83
r-84
v
Original title: In Canticum Debbore
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Cecineruntque debbora et barach filius abinoem. Barach uir debbora
Explicit: sicut habes in Ieremia propheta
Rubric: Incipit canticum Deboborae
Language: Latin
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3413
(m)
f.84
v-87
r
Original title: In Lamentationes Jeremie
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Et factum est postquam in captiuitatem ductus est israel
Explicit: et sequendo uoluptatem carnis
Rubric: Incipiunt lamentations Ieremie
Language: Latin
Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 3423
(n)
f.87
r-88
r
Original title: Tractatus super Aedificium Prudentii
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Gratia dei adiutrice uitiorum uoragine annichilata uirtutum domicilium describere nobis studuit prudentius doctor
Explicit: ad discretionem pertinet
Rubric: Incipit tractatus super edificium Prudentii
Language: Latin
Cited: Bloomfield 1979, 2241
(o)
f.88
r-88
v
Original title: Epistola 23
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Cogor a te, ut tibi dardane de alii de generibus musicorum
Explicit: legis ueteris in manu iudeorum
Rubric: Ieronimvs ad dardanum
Language: Latin
(p)
f.88
v-92
r
Original title: Epistola 125
Incipit: Nichil christiano felicius cui promittuntur regna celorum
Explicit: sed magna sunt proemia
Rubric: Ieronimus ad Rusticum monachum
Language: Latin
(q)
f.92
r-92
v
Original title: De sphaera celi
Incipit: Affirmatur celum rotundum iuxta ecclesiasten
Explicit: et super eminentem scientie caritatem consequamur
Language: Latin
(r)
f.92
v-99
r
Modern title: Sentences on biblical themes
Incipit: Paulus apostolus non ab hominibus neque per hominem sed per iesum christum et deum patrem
Explicit: et illos oculus possidere in quos festuca peccati non possit incidere
Language: Latin
A diverse collection incorporating credited extracts from Ambrose (e.g. f.95v; De spiritu sancto I.6), Augustine (e.g. f.96r; Ep. 47) and Jerome (e.g. In epistolam ad Galatas and Epistola 51). Up to f.96r subsections are defined by paraphs within the text. The text ends with Jerome, Ep. 68, para 2.
(s)
f.99
r-100
v
Modern title: Interpretations of the names of Christ’s Ancestors
Incipit: Abra\h/am, pater excelsus, Esaias, Vocabitur nomen eius admirabilis
Explicit: ob scelus inmanissimum adulterii et homicidii quod perpetratum est per eam
Language: Latin
Related to De genealogia Christi, attributed to Alcuin.
(t)
f.100
v-101
v
Original title: On the Seven Weeks of Daniel 9.24-26
Incipit: Non ad hoc abbreuiauit illos annos ut tolleret inde embolismos
Explicit: cccc xc anni lunares, qui sunt anni solares cccclxxv
Rubric: Glossae septimae ebdomadae
Language: Latin
Cf. Daniel 9.24-26 with Bede, De temporum ratione, ch. 9
(u)
f.101
v-102
v
Modern title: Notes on selected biblical books
Incipit: In Genesi. Sintagma doctrina. Oecnicon dispensatorem uel secretum
Explicit: De iohannis epistola tertia. Diotrepes, heresiarcha temporis illius aliquis superbis
Language: Latin
Sections of differing length on material from Gen., Ex., Num., Deut.,Kings I-IV, Is., Jer., Ez., Dan., Hos., Joel, Amos, Jonah, Michea, Zacharia, Iob, ‘Solomon’, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Iesus filius Sirach, and John Ep. III. In Cambridge, Trinity College, B.2.34, f.170r the text is entitled "De partibus minus notis veteris testamenti"
(v)
f.102
v-105
v
Original title: Liber pontificalis (extracts)
Language: Latin
Origin and summary of deeds for most popes down to Boniface; thereafter (Deusdedit to Constantinus) only the length of the pontificate is given.
(w)
f.105
v
Modern title: Excerpts on Units of Measure etc.
Language: Latin
(x)
f.105
v-106
r
Modern title: Computistical Note
Incipit: Termini anni xxvi, xv, xxxiiii, xxiii, xii, xxxii, xx
Explicit: numerus terminabitur, ibi erit terminus
Language: Latin
(y)
f.106
r
Modern title: Eucharistic Distich
Incipit: Sub specie panis fit uera comestio carnis. Sumitur hic sanguis uirus quo pellitur anguis
Language: Latin
Runs on undifferentiated from (x)
(z)
f.106
r
Modern title: Two Metrical Prayers
Incipit: O deus immensa clementia suauis optima
Incipit: Qui pie pro nobis cognoscis pondera carnis
Language: Latin
(aa)
f.106
r
Modern title: List of Nine Principal Feasts
Incipit: Prima de natali domini. Secunda de apparitione
Explicit: Octaua de cruce. Nona de apostolis
Rubric: Novem praefationes canonicae
Language: Latin
(ab)
f.106
r
Modern title: Sets of Verses
Incipit: De natura ignis. Est res effrenis, nec pascitur absque rapinis
Incipit: De quatuor generibus mortis. Quadrifido genere mors ius tenet imperiale
Incipit: De Saule qui duobus annis regnasse dicitur. Monade censetur, cum primum sceptra tuetur
Incipit: De metallis. Quidam septigenum describunt esse metallum
Language: Latin
Citation: Walther 5833
Citation: Walther 14969
Citation: Walther 11179
Citation: Walther 15969
(ac)
f.106
r-106
v
Original title: De xii lapidibus preciosis
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Jaspis viridis super quem fuerunt nulla phantasmata timet
Explicit: humilitatis benignitate suaues, regia potestate contra omnis incursus constantes
Rubric: De lapidibus
Language: Latin
(ad)
f.106
v-107
r
Original title: Notae divinae legis necessariae
Author: Ps.-Jerome
Incipit: Hoc in idiomatibus, id est propriis locutionibus legis
Language: Latin
List of thirteen notae, followed by explanations of each.
(ae)
f.107
r-107
v
Original title: Monochordum Encheriadis
Incipit: Monochordum encheriadis constat ex x et viii cordis ex iiii uidelicet grauibus et quattuor finalibus
Explicit: singuli extremam suam symphoniam attingant
Rubric: Monochordum domni encheriadis
Language: Latin
(af)
f.107
v-108
r
Original title: Mensura monochordi
Incipit: Mensura domni Boetii. Totam tabulam diuide in quattuor et in prima parte
Incipit: Cromaticum et enarmonicam ita facies. Sume meditatem spacii quod est inter p et o
Language: Latin
2 pieces. Also found in DCL Hunter MS 100, f.41v-42r
(ag)
f.108
r
Modern title: Mensura (extract from Micrologus)
Incipit: Γ Gamma itaque in primis affixa, ab ea usque ad finem
Explicit: b, B, c, cd
Rubric: Mensura Domni Guidonis
Language: Latin
Also found in DCL Hunter MS 100, f.42r, but with a different closing section.
(ah)
f.108
r
Modern title: On Units of Weight
Incipit: Duo calculi faciunt unum ceratem, duo autem cerates faciunt uum obolum
Explicit: Duo etenim oboli faciunt unum scripilum uel scripulum.
Language: Latin
(ai)
f.108
v
Modern title: Divisions of the Monochord
Incipit: Proslambanomenos Enarmonicum
Explicit: Netehyperboleon Diatonicum
Language: Latin
Aligned vertically, arranged in three registers, these and the subdivisions defined by red and green lines; sections of the middle register also marked with capital letters A-P, plus Z.
(aj)
f.109
r-133
r
Modern title: Letters and Verses
Incipit: Dilectissimo patri et archiepiscopo suo L, F dei gratia carnotensium epsicopus orationis suffragium
Explicit: cum magis ex prompta fidelitate quam improba temeritate peccauerim. Vale
Rubric: Epistole Fulberti Carnotensis episcopi
Language: Latin
Contains numbers 2, 3, 5, 4, 10, 13, 14, 8, 15, 16, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17-23, 38, 36, 98, 97, 118, 123-4, 122, 125-127, 147, 40, 39, 72-4, 76-8, 80, 75, 84-87, 132, 88-94, 119, 99-101, 26, 64, 146, 24, 29, 30, 35, 62, 63, 31, 37, 32-3, 148, 25, 79, 81-3, 42, 41, 34, 28, 44, 47, 45, 49, 51, 43, 52, 54, 55, 53, 46, 56-61, 154, Fulbert, Contra Iudeos III, notice of the election of Abbot Bernard of Montier-la-Celle, 50, 120, 27, 65, 67, 66, 68, 48, 69-71, 95-6, 102-6, 110, 109, 111-114, 116-17, 121, 128-131, 115. This collection is identical to that in Leiden Vossianus latin Q.12 and closely similar to that in BAV, Reg. lat. 278.
Fulbert MS D p. xlvii.
(ak)
f.133
r-134
v
Modern title: Sermons and Poem
Incipit: Patres venerabiles karissimi filii dei aliquid uobis uolumus memorare
Explicit: et uite eterne ianuas patefecit
Language: Latin
Sermo 1; Rithmus de trinitate; Sermo 7; De poenitentia mulierum; Sermo 8.
(al)
f.134
v-135
r
Modern title: Admonitory Catena
Incipit: Clama ne cesses quasi tuba exalta uocem tuam et annuncia populo meo scelera eorum
Explicit: Corripe me domine uerumtamen in iudicio non in furore tuo, ne forte ad nichilum redigas me
Rubric: Liber Actuum Apostolorum mentionem facit baptismi capitulo vi, vii, xxiiii, xxv, xxx, xlv, xlvi, xlviiii, li, lxi. Admonitio sacerdotum
Language: Latin
The incipit is Isaiah 58.1, the explicit Jeremiah 10.24; incorporates Fulbert of Chartres, ‘Versus de duplicitate’. Other authorities cited by name are Cassian, Jerome, Hosea and Leo.
(am)
f.135
r
Original title: De peccatis capitalibus
Incipit: Si quis hominem occiderit sponte
Explicit: feria ieiunet
Rubric: De poenitentia laicorum secundum Fulbertum episcopum
Language: Latin
(an)
f.135
r-135
v
Original title: Rithmus de santa cruce
Incipit: Uexillum regis uenerabile cuncta regentis
Explicit: Constanter uitam studeamus adire supernam
Language: Latin
Edition: Fulbert no 134
(ao)
f.
Original title: Epistola ad Gauzlinum abbatem
Incipit: Rotbertus nutu dei francorum rex, Gauzlino
Explicit: Uolo uos scire mei animi motum … donec mihi respondeatis. Valete
Rubric: Epistola transmissa Gauzlino abbati a piissimo rege Rotberto de quodam portento
Language: Latin
Edition: Fulbert p.274-5
(ap)
f.135
v-136
r
Original title: Rescriptum ad regem Rotbertum
Incipit: Domino regi francorum excellentissimo Rotberto
Explicit: benedictione in omnibus exornet
Language: Latin
Edition: Fulbert p.275-7
(aq)
f.
Modern title: Hymns and Poems
Language: Latin
Edition: Fulbert no 153, 135, 137 9, 140 1, 142, 149
Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.
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