Manuscripts
f. 1r.1-31
[Vita Vergilii (Vita Noricensis I)]
Incipit: ‘Locus tempus persona in hac arte Aeneidos quaerendi sunt ⁊ causa scribendi [...]’Explicit: ‘ethicam in Georgicis in Aeneidis loycam’
Version of the Life of Virgil known as the Vita Noricensis I (ed. Jakob Brummer, Vitae Vergilianae (1912): 54–55). It opens with a number of introductory questions or periochae. A gloss in the left margin (f. 1r.10) seems to read iō.
f. 1r.32-f. 1v.3
[Vita Vergilii (Vita Noricensis II)]
Incipit: ‘Puplius Virgilius Maro natus est in Idibus Octobris Pompeio [...]’Explicit: ‘[...] quo semel est inbuta recens seruabit odorem testa diu’
Version of the Life of Virgil known as the Vita Noricensis II (ed. Jakob Brummer, Vitae Vergilianae (1912): 55).
f. 1v.4-8
Incipit: ‘v̄ [in the margin] sunt nomina et feminina et neutra communia et tellus olus’
Excerpts from a variety of sources on topics such as grammar and geography in the Bible.
f. 1v.9-19
Extracts from Ambrose (Hexameron, Books V and VI) on the subject of certain animals.
f. 1v.20-24
[Adgúisiu fid nallabrach]
Incipit: ‘Adgúisiu fid nallabrach ⁊ arggatbrain etir tenid ocus fraig’
Irish incantation (Thes. ii 293).
f. 1v.25-39
(Thes. ii 293–294)
One leaf lost between ff. 1 and 2.
f. 2r.1-13
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Scholia on the Aeneid (I 28-39).
f. 2r
Astronomical table.
f. 2v.1-2
Incipit: ‘confestim veluti competendi festinatione. nullus pro non’
Top of the page, in smaller script: two Latin flosses deriving, according to Stern (1908), from Charisius
f. 2va
Heading/rubric: ‘Articuli grecorum’
Left, narrow column: paradigms of Greek pronouns with glosses in Latin.
f. 2vb
Incipit: ‘De modis sylogismorum. qui fiunt cum aliqua conclusione sunt vii. Primus modus est. si dies est lucet. est autem dies. lucet igitur’Explicit: ‘Septimus modus est ita. non dies et nox. et si nox non est. dies igitur est’
Right column, in larger script: note on syllogisms.
f. 2v
Incipit: ‘Secundus circulus ex eo terminos tropicos ’
In smaller script: note on circuli paralleli deriving, according to Stern, from the De astronomia attributed to Hyginus (I. 6).
f. 3r-f. 4v
Notes (continued) on Greek grammar and vocabulary.
f. 4v-5v
Miscellaneous notes.
f. 6r-f. 8r
A Latin Ambrosian hymnary of 29 items for the canonical hours: f. 6r: 1. Ymnus ad primam horam, beg. Iam lucis orto sidere; 2. Ymnus ad tertiam, beg. Nunc sancte nobis spiritus; 3. Hymnus ad sextam, beg. Rector potens verax Deus; 4. Hymnus ad nonam, beg. Rerum Deus tenax vigor; 5. Hymnus dominico die ad uesperos, beg. Lucis creator optime; 6. Feria .ii., beg. Immense caeli conditor; f. 6v: 7. Feria .iii., beg. Telluris ingens conditor; 8. Feria .iiii., beg. Caeli deus sanctissime; 9. Feria .v., beg. Magnae deus potentiae; 10. FERIA .VI. [in larger script], beg. Plasmator hominis deus, 11. SABBATO AD VESPEROS, beg. Deus creator omnium, which continues 2 lines into f. 7r; f. 7r: 12. Hymus ad uesperos die dominico, beg. O lux beata trinitas; 13. Hymnus dominicus ad nocturnam, beg. Primo dierum omnium; 14. FERIA .II., beg. Somno refectis artibus; 15. FERIA .III., beg. Consors paterni luminis; 16. FERIA .IIII., beg. Rerum creator optime; 17. FERIA .V., beg. Nox atra rerum contegit; f. 7v: 18. Feria vi, beg. Tu trinitatis unitas; 19. Sababtum, beg. Summe deus clementiae; 20. Ymnus dominico die ad matutinam, beg. Aeteme rerum conditor; 21. Feria .ii., beg. Splendor paternae gloriae; 22. Feria .iii., beg. Ales diei nuntius; 23. FERIA .III., beg. Nox et tenebrae et nubila, which continues two lines into f. 8r; f. 8r: 24. FERIA .V., beg. Lux ecce surgit aurea; 25. FERIA .VI., beg. Aeterna caeli gloria; 26. Sabbato, beg. Aurora iam spargit polum; 27. Ymnus ad completorum, beg. Christe qui lux es et dies; 28. Item, beg. Te lucis ante terminum; 29. Ymnus ad uesperum in pascha, beg. Ad caenam agni prouidi. The Karlsruhe MS contains nine further hymns. The selection and arrangement of hymns deviate from those of other Ambrosian hymnaries. Eight hymns are found in the same order in Cologne MS 106, which is
f. 8v.1-5
Old Irish poem.
f. 8v.6-8
[Is ór glan is nem im gréin]
Incipit: ‘Is en immo n.iada sas’
Old Irish poem, 2qq, beg. Is én immo n-iada sás. These quatrains are also known from a longer poem beg. Is ór glan is nem im gréin.
f. 8va.9-20
First column: declension of o κιθαριστης.
f. 8vb.9-17
Incipit: ‘quod ab initio aetherea corpora sensibilia habent angeli’
Second column: Latin note about angels.
f. 8vb
[Aeneis (Virgil)]
extract
Line from the Aeneid (II 659).
f. 8vb
[Áed oll fri andud n-áne]
Incipit: ‘Aed oll fri andud nane’
Old Irish poem.
