University of Missouri, Fragmenta Manuscripta 002

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10075

Shelfmark:

Fragmenta Manuscripta 002

Title:

De orthographia
Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo
Excerpta de Scauri et Palladi libris

Author:

Beda Venerabilis

Bede WIKIDATA

Priscian

Priscian WIKIDATA

Audax

Audax WIKIDATA

Place:

Wales?

Wales TGN

Date:

s. IX; 800-899

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 2.
Script, f. 1r-v: Insular.
Layout, f. 1r-v: 45 lines (visible) in two columns; irregular cropping at top, recto; ruling instrument: dry point, lines 2mm apart).

Former Owner(s):

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

William Salloch WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. H. Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts(Tempe AZ 2001) 809.9.
f. 1r-v: To Winchester by s. X in. See letter of Bernhard Bischoff to M. Gatch, 13.x.77; cf Lagorio article; hand is close to that of Anglo-Saxon monk Peregrinus, from Freising. See Cat. 400 Jahre Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, No. 4, plate 3. Could be Welsh.
f. 1r-v: Latin.
f. 1r: "Two paragraphs of commentary at the end are written in a different hand of the same period" (Salloch 7). For text, see H. Keil, Grammatici latini7:262-265, here missing some material between end of column A and beginning of column B.
f. 1v: See Keil, 3:455-456.
f. 1v: Keil, 7:322. Above the passage from Audax, is another unidentified passage of 9 lines; below it is a quote attributed to Jerome, "A nota venit littera ."
Incipit, f. 1v: bene dictorum comprobatio.
Explicit, f. 1v: Grammatice officia sunt quattuor.

Holding Institution:

University of Missouri