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Seven-book computus

  • Latin
  • prose

Extensive Frankish collection of computistical and astronomical matter that arose from a meeting of clerical scholars at Aachen in 809 and further work possibly supervised by Adalhard of Corbie. It was completed by 810 or 812. The work is arranged in seven books.

Title
Seven-book computus
al. 7-Bücher-Computus (Springsfeld); astronomisch-komputistisches Lehrbuch (used in reference to a MS in Madrid); Die Aachener Enzyklopädie von 809 (Borst).
Contributors
Adalhard of CorbieAdalhard of Corbie
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Manuscripts

The main manuscript witnesses include:

Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, MS 3307
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. lat. 645
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 309
Complete.
Monza, Biblioteca capitolare, MS F.9.176
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 456
Language
  • Latin
Date
Completed by 810 x 812.
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Three-book computusThree-book computus

Extensive Frankish collection of computistical and astronomical matter, which builds on the Seven-book computus of 809-812, was created under the supervision of bishop Arno of Salzburg and was completed in 818.

Classification

Keywords

AstronomyAstronomy
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ComputusComputus
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ChronologyChronology
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Springsfeld, Kerstin, Alkuins Einfluss auf die Komputistik zur Zeit Karls des Grossen, Sudhoffs Archiv Beihefte, 48, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2002.
105–118
Eastwood, Bruce S., Ordering the heavens: Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance, History of Science and Medicine Library, 4, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2020, last updated: June 2023
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