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R.14.34

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Shelfmark R.14.34
Manuscript Title

Constantine the African, Liber Pantegni
Alternative Title

Constantini Pantegni
James Number 906
Century 12th
Physical Description

40 lines to a page. Finely written. Good plain initials, mostly red and green.
Provenance

Given by John Wilson, Fellow. From Bury St Edmund’s Abbey.

On f.1 at top is 'Liber monachorum Sancti Edmundi': and the mark M
Also 'salutio ad abbatem'
Second Folio magister
Religious House Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk, Benedictine Abbey
Donor Wilson, John, fellow of Trinity ( ),
Size (cm) 30 x 20
Folio 142 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

18-188 (7, 8 canc.).
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.14.34/manifest.json
Online Since 24/02/2015

Contents

Constantini Pantegni.

f.1 Prologue

Incipit: 'Domino suo mentis cassinensis abbati · d · reuerentissimo patrum patri immo tocius ordinis ecclesiastici gemme prenitenti constantinus affricanus
-digna iudicetis.
Capitula libri primi.
f.1 Inc. liber primus
Cum totius scientie generalitas tres principales partes habeat.
There are marginal corrections and many later pencil notes.
Liber x. ends f.141b
Vnde acutum oportet habere sensum ad intelligendum. Explicit.
Then follows a Runic alphabet of a late form, in red, with the names of the letters written in, viz.
1 Ar 2 berehel 3 blank 4 dur 5 er 6 fe 7 g 8 haghel 9 is 10 blank 11 logher 12 magher 13 noub 14 os 15 blank 16 reik 17 sol 18 tur 19 ur 20 þ 21, 22 blank.

Bibliography

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

Gameson, R.,The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999), no. 179

Green, M. H., 'The De genecia attributed to Constantine the African', Speculum, 62 (1987), 299-324

Derolez, R., 'Scandinavian Runes in Continental Manuscripts', in Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun Jr., ed. J. Bessinger and R. Creed (New York, 1965), pp. 30-9

The runic inscriptionon f. 141v t is included in the RuneS database, avaliable here: https://www.runesdb.de/find/9796

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