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O.5.34

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Shelfmark O.5.34
Alternative Title

Glossaria Latina
James Number 1315
Century 12th
Physical Description

Two and four columns on a page of 41 lines. In a noble hand. The book has suffered very severely from some liquid of an oily character which has rotted the leaves: about thirty leaves in the middle of the book are seriously injured and one or more quires have been removed.
Provenance

Marked A.35.
At the top of f.1 a seems to be written faintly 'Cantu', perhaps for Canterbury. [Ker (1964) rejects Canterbury.]
Second Folio 2 fo. Abram 3 fo. iuxta montem
Size (cm) 35 x 26
Folio 199 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

18-58 66 78 810 98 106 (2 canc.) 118 126 136 146 (+ 6*) 158 166 (+ 2) 176 quires gone 188 196 (+ 1) 206 218-258 2612.
Notes

f102 & f103 bound in the wrong order. Some fragments have been preserved in individual envelopes. These, along with two letters and a note, are displayed at the end of the manuscript.
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Contents

1. f.1 Prologus Ieronimi in libro glosarum (P.L. xxiii.859)
Eusebius qui a beato pamphilo
-supergredi me posse credo.
Item. Phylo uir disertissimus
-hic ut christianus impleret.
Aaron mons fortitudinis.
Ends f.29. Zorobabel. Ipse magister babylonis.

2. f.29 Incipiunt Hermeneumata idest interpretamenta secundum grecam ethymologiam
(title in red capitals).
Abscida Lucida.
Abebius inconsul.
Absintium herba.
Ends (unfinished) f.39,
Nodios modius.
Nanos Situlus.
Nipter Puluis.
Most of f.39a and all f.39b blank.
Printed from Codd. Palatt. Vatt. 1773, 1774 in Corp. Gloss. Latt. Vol. III. (see p.xxx).

3. (Epitome libri glossarum.)
f.40 A littera in omnibus gentibus ideo prima est litterarum
-Cutis. que in corpore prima est.
Expl. pars prima glosarum a b. Eusebio hieronimo hebraice grece et Latine composita et exposita.
f.85 Sequitur eiusdem operis pars media
Da. Porrige.
There seems to be no other division. It is in this part of the book between g and m, that most damage has been done. After macte f.126, a quire or more is gone and we go on with Officio migrauit.
This glossary ends f.165b
Zosimus uiuax uel uiuidus
Zoisti Interpretator.
Title in red capitals.

4. f.166 Inc. prol. Pauli ad Karolum Regem
Diuine largitatis munere
-uita comite ad potiora excitabit.
Inc. excerpta ex libris Pompei Festi de signification euerborum.
Abacti · magistratus dicebantur qui coacti deposuerunt imperium.
Ends f.198b:
Vrbanas tribus appellabant in quas urbs erat dispertita · a seruo tullio rege id est suhurana · palatina · aesquilina · collina.

5. In a slightly later hand:
f.198b Inc elucidatio obscurarum partium in quinque libris moysi
Bresith hebraice genesis grece generatio latine.
Paradisis grece · ortus latine.
Ends f.199a:
Cassia nascitur in arabia: uirga robusti corticis et purpureis foliis nt piperis.
f.199b is blank.

There are a few marginal notes in a small hand of cents, xii, xiii.

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

James, M. R., The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1903), p. 529

Silvester, H., 'Une copie du Xe siècle non utilisée du premier glossaire grec-latin "abscida lucida"', Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi 21 (1951), 159-70

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