Identifiers |
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| Country | UK |
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| Location | Hereford, Cathedral Library |
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| Shelfmark | O.III.2 |
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| MIrA number | 234 |
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Description |
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| No. of folios | 205 |
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| Page height (cm) | 24.8 |
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| Page width (cm) | 19.3 |
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| Script | Caroline minuscule |
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| Contents | Jerome, De viris illustribus; Decretum Gelasianum; Gennadius, De viris illustribus; Isidore, De viris illustribus; Augustine Retractationes;
Cassiodorus, Institutiones (book 1); Isidore, Prohemia, extracts from De ecclesiasticis officiis, De ortu et obitu sanctorum patrum, Allegoriae |
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History |
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| Dating | IX 3/4 (851–875) |
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| Origin | France? |
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| Provenance | Canterbury (c. 1100) |
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Resources |
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| Catalogue entries/identifiers | - Bischoff, Katalog, no. 1523
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Notes |
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Bischoff: Irish exemplar? Mynors (ed.), Cassiodori Senatoris Institutiones (Oxford, 1937), pp XV–XVI: Irish abbreviations for autem and per sometimes taken over, sometimes wrongly interpreted.
Two embedded Irish glosses misunderstood: sitipio (sc. stibio): id est o dub dabrom (John Fraser: ó dub da bró); fenus: id est amthi (cf. Sg. 11b19 l: foenus: aithi).
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References |
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Bischoff, Bernhard, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden, 1998–2014).
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The size of each data point is proportional to the number of manuscripts represented.