The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Title in rustic capitals.
f.1 IN NOMINE DOMINI INCIPIT INUOLUTIO SPERAE
Duo sunt extremi uertices mundi quos appellant polos.
-effusionem urnae aquarii quae ad ipsum usque decurrit accipiens.
f.2 SENTENTIA ABBONIS DE DIFFERENTIA CIRCULI ET SPERAE
Studiosis astrologiae primo sciendum est
-Si uero Nota est: aliquis planetarum est.
With a diagram in red.
f.3b DE CURSU · VII · PLANETARUM PER ZODIACUM CIRCULUM
Denique Luna totius Zodiaci signa
-ad quas sol numquam accedit.
By Abbo.
f.6b CURSUS LUNAE PER XII SIGNA
Diagram.
f.7a (p.13) HORALOGIUM HORARUM INCHOAT
p.14 Tables connected with Kalendar
p.15 Kalendar, in red, blue, green, and black
Each month has a headline, e.g. for January
Hebraice · Tebeth · Grece Eidyneos · Aegyptiace Thybi.
p.27 Paschal tables follow
p.37 Verses in a larger hand on the dies Aegyptiaci
KL. IAN. Iani prima dies et septima fine timetur.
KL. DEC. Dat duodena cohors septem inde decemque decembri.
p.38 Another Paschal table with diagram
p.39 HIGINUS MAGISTER FABIO PLURIMAM SALUTEM
ET SI TE STUdio grammaticae artis inductum
-et initium rerum demonstrabimus.
EXPL. PRAEFATIO.
p.42 INC. LIBER HIGINI
Mundus appellatur is qui constat ex sole luna et terra et omnibus stellis.
It is the Poeticon Astronomicon.
Nos autem omnium corporum deformationem dicere instituimus.
FINIT DE HYSTORIIS OMNIUM SIGNORUM.
p.92 INC. DE FIGURATIONE OMNIUM SIGNORUM
Igitur incipiemus a polo boreo.
Blanks are left for pictures of the signs: but the only ones inserted (in outline) are:
p.102 Signum equi Pegasi. A demi-horse winged
p.104 Taurus in a medallion
p.109 Pisces
p.114 Piscis Nothius
Ends p.135
ccc^tos. lx^ta. v. dies suo cursu transigit
FlNIT HIGINUS DE...
p.136 MARTIANI . MINEI . FELICIS . CAPELLAE . CARTAGINENSIS DE ASTROLOGIA LIBER . INC. IN NOMINE D.N.I.C.
Quae dum geruntur et deorum sacer senatui.
With some interlinear glosses, seemingly all in Latin.
The last page erased and rewritten in cent. xii (p.165).
The old hand ends p.164
Cum ultra · xii · partes.
p.166
xii . cos matutini radii non presserint solis
-aut in latitudine declinare aut retrogradari tacit.
INC. EXPOSITIO COMPOTI [helperyci] 166
Cum quibusdam fratribus nostris adolescentulis
-illa deinceps facilius assequantur.
FlNIT EXCERPTIO UEL EXPOSITIO COMPOTI HERIRICI (written above is helperici: xiii) UIRI DOCTISSIMI.
p.200 INC. EXCERPTIO ABBONIS EX IGINO DE FIGURATIONE SIGNORUM
Denique ut dicit plinius inter omnia sunt · lxxii · signa.
There are a few Greek words, fairly well written.
-Quae diabolicus error confirmauit . sed christus dominus saluator mundi euertit (p.212).
p.213 Ciceronis Aratea (without heading)
Written in double columns: in the same hand.
Quinque solent stellae simili ratione notari (l.227(472)).
On p.214 a heading
DE CURSU SOLIS ET LUNAE.
Quod si solis habes ueros cognoscere cursus (l.341(587)).
Ends p.216
Hanc autem totam properant depellere pisces (l.480(728)).
On the fly-leaf are scribbles: probatio penne bone (xii).

The Kalendar has the following notable entries.
Jan. 9. Transl. S. Iudoci (at, not to, Winchester).
19. S. brannualatori C.
Feb. 1. S. Brigide V.
13. Tr. S. eadƿeardi R. Et S. Eormenhilde V.
28. Dep. S. osƿaldi Arch.
Mar. 1. S. Ceadden Ep. (spelling probably peculiar to Winchester).
12. S. Gregorii pp. et S. Aelfheagi Ep. (the latter only found in Winchester books).
18. S. Eadƿeardi R. et M.
20. S. Cuthberhti Ep.
Ap. 13. S. Leonis pp. et s. guðlaci.
21. S. Aelfhegi ep. et M.
30. S. erkenƿalde Ep.
May 18. Sanctae... (erased: probably Elfgivae).
19. Dep. S. Dunstani Arch.
25. Urbani and Aldelm.
26. Augustine Abp. and Bede.
June 15. Dep. S. Eadburge V.
21. S. Leufredi C.
23. S. Aeðeldrythe V.
July 2. Dep. S. Sƿiðhuni Ep.
6. Sexburge V.
7. S. Hędde Ep.
8. S. Grimbaldi Sac.
13. Added slightly later S. mildryþe V.
15. Transl. S. Sƿiðhuni ep.
17. S. Kenelmi M.
18. Transl. S. Eadburge V.
20. S. uulmari C.
Aug. 1. Dep. S. aðelƿolde Ep.
5. S. osƿaldi R. et M.
Sept. 4. Transl. S. Birini et Cuthberhti.
5. S. Berhtini Abb.
10. Transl. S. Aðelƿolde Ep.
17. S. Landberhti M.
Oct. 8. S. iƿigii C. (=Iwygii: peculiar to Winchester)
10. S. Paulini Ep.
12. S. uuilfridi Ep.
17. S. Aeðeldrythe V.
Nov. 4. S. Byrnstani Ep.
20. S. Eadmundi R. et M.
Dec. 3. Dep. S. Byrini Ep.
13. S. iudoci C.

The Rev. H. M. Bannister, to whose kindness I owe the above note, adds that the omission of the Transl. of S. Grimbald (4 Non. Sept.) may perhaps mean that this is not a Newminster book; that the octave of S. Denis (17 Kal. Nov.) is in England almost peculiar to Winchester: and that the spelling Machloni (17 Kal. Dec.) points to the same place.

Bannister, H. M., 'Signs in Kalendarial Tables', in Mélanges offerts à Émile Chatelain (Paris, 1910), 141-9.

Barker-Benfield, B. C., ed., St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 13, (London, 2008), 3 vols., pp. 1188, 1836, 1917.

Bishop, T. A. M., 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts II', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2 (1954-8), 185-92, at 189-92.

Bishop, T. A. M., English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford, 1971), pp. xviii, 23.

Chardonnens, L. S., Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100 : Study and Texts (Leiden, 2007)

Dumville, D. N., English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism A.D. 950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 6 (Woodbridge, 1993), p. 136.

Dumville, D. N., Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 5 (Woodbridge, 1992), pp. 25, 60, 129.

Eastwood, B., Astronomy in Christian Latin Europe c.500-c.1150, Journal for the history of astronomy 28 (Cambridge, 1997) p. 235-258.

Gneuss, H., Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: a List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 241 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 186 [MS in two parts, one s. xi in., the other s. xi¹ (1035/6); both parts origin New Minster, Winchester, provenance St Augustine's Canterbury by s. xi ex.]

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

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 90.

Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Other Items of Related Interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 18 (Binghampton, NY, 1992), no. 19 + pl. XIX.

Keynes, S. D., facs. ed., The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester: British Library Stowe 944, together with leaves from British Library Cotton Vespasian A.VIII and British Library Cotton Titus D.XXVII (Copenhagen, 1996)

McGurk, P., 'The Astronomical Section', in An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany, ed. P. McGurk, Early Engilsh Manuscripts in Facsimile 21 (Copenhagen, 1983), 67-70.

Morgan, N., and S. Panayotova, et al., eds., Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge: A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, 2 vols (London, 2011), vol 1, cited no 59

Morgan, N. and Panayatova, S. (eds.) with the assistance of Rebecca Rushforth, Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge : A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part 4, The British Isles, 2 vols. (London, 2013), vol 1. no. 34

Obrist, B., Abbon de Fleury: Philosophie, Sciences et Comput Autour de l'An Mil

Les Représentations de la Musique au Moyen Âge : Actes du Colloque des 2 et 3 Avril 2004, Organisé par le Musée de la musique ... / Ouvrage Publié sous la Direction Scientifique de Martine Clouzot et Christine Laloue., Les Cahiers du Museé de la Musique (Paris, 2005)

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 357, pl. 18 [pp.13-26 datable 1035 or 1036, written at Hyde Abbey]

Rushforth, R., An atlas of saints in Anglo-Saxon calendars, ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies 6 (Cambridge, 2002)

Rushforth, R., Saints in English Kalendars Before A.D. 1100, Henry Bradshaw Society 117 (Woodbirdge, 2008)

van de Vyver, A., 'Les oeuvres inédites d'Abbon de Fleury', Revue Bénédictine 47 (1935), 125-69.

Wormald, F., English Kalendars before A.D. 1100, Henry Bradshaw Society 72 (London, 1934)