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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1442 Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, II.19–44 (fragment)

  • Latin, Middle Irish
  • s. xii
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
A twelfth-century Irish fragment (6 ff) of Boethius's De institutione arithmetica, containing Latin glosses and a single Middle Irish note (f. 5ra).
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
H 2. 12, part 7
Classification
Cat. no. 1442
Type
scientific literature and learning
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Middle Irish
Date
s. xii
Dated on palaeographical grounds to the 12th century (Ó Néill). Abbott’s 1900 catalogue description gives “s. xiv”, without arguments in support of that date, while his later description lacks an indication of date.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Irish hand irish minuscule hand of the 12th century (Ó Néill). For a discussion of similarities to the Lebor na hUidre, see Duncan 2012.
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Dimensions
27 cm × 20.2 cm
“c. 270 x c. 202 mm” (Ó Néill).
Foliation
6 ff.
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Secondary sources (select)

Duncan, Elizabeth, “Lebor na hUidre and a copy of Boethius’s De re arithmetica: a palaeographical note”, Ériu 62 (2012): 1–32.  
abstract:
The purpose of this article is to lay out the striking palaeographical similarities between Hand M of Lebor na hUidre and a copy of Boethius's De re arithmetica preserved in TCD MS 1442 (H.2.12, pt 7). The resemblances between both script-specimens indicate a similar context for their executions.
Ó Néill, Pádraig P., “A Middle-Irish note on Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica”, Éigse 35 (2005): 1–8.
Esposito, Mario, “Classical manuscripts in Irish libraries, part 1 [1. Trinity College]”, Hermathena 19:42 (1920): 123–140.
Internet Archive: <link>
138
Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
322 [id. 1442.] direct link
Abbott, T. K., Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin; to which is added a list of the Fagel collection of maps in the same Library, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1900.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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August 2015, last updated: August 2023
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