Manuscripts

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. lat. 5755 Unit: pp. 3-6

  • Latin, Irish, Old Irish
  • s. viii/ix (?)
  • Continental manuscripts containing Irish, Continental manuscripts containing Irish
  • parchment

Computus fragment, containing excerpts from the Calculus of Victorius of Acquitaine and some Argumenta attributed to Dionysius Exiguus on the determination of Easter. It has been suggested that it originally belonged with another fragment, now in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS L 22 sup (ff. 146-147), and a flyleaf in Nancy, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 317 (356).

Identifiers
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Irish, Old Irish
Date
s. viii/ix (?)
8th/9th century?
Origin, provenance
Origin: Ireland
Ireland
No short description available

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Ireland (Lowe).
Provenance: Bobbio
Bobbio
No short description available

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Provnenance: Bobbio.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
State of existence
single fragment
Material
parchment
Foliation
2 ff.
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: Irish minuscule
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

Secondary sources (select)

Warntjes, Immo, “The argumenta of Dionysius Exiguus and their early recensions”, in: Immo Warntjes, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (eds), Computus and its cultural context in the Latin West, AD 300–1200: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, 5, Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 40–111.  
abstract:
Dionysius Exiguus composed the earliest known computistical formulary written in Latin in 525. However, this formulary has not survived in its original form. The editors of Dionysius’ computistical writings, Wilhelm Jan and Bruno Krusch, published a corpus of 16 argumenta from a single manuscript, namely MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 63 under Dionysius’ name, since this was the only manuscript known to them that preserved the original 525 dating. Some of these 16 argumenta, however, contain dating clauses as late as 675, which immediately cast doubt on their ascription to Dionysius. In fact, the 16 argumenta edited by Jan and Krusch should more precisely be defined as a computistical formulary of 675, to be termed the Computus Digbaeanus of 675, which includes the original Dionysiac argumenta. This article, then, reconstructs the original Dionysiac corpus on the basis of new manuscript evidence. Moreover, the different stages of interpolations and additions that eventually led to the composition of the Computus Digbaeanus are analyzed, and with this the development of computistical formularies written in Latin in the 150 years from 525 to 675.
Stansbury, Mark [proj. dir.], and David Kelly [proj. dir.], Earlier Latin manuscripts: tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts, Online: Department of Classics and Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2016–. URL: <https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/>. 
abstract:
The Earlier Latin Manuscripts Project is a database of manuscripts written in Latin before the year 800 based on the work of E. A. Lowe and his assistants published in Codices Latini Antiquiores. The work for this project was conducted in the Department of Classics and the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland Galway. Funding for its completion was contributed by both the Moore Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. [...] Data from the database can be accessed in 3 ways, each subject to the license above: # Via the web front-end, accessible using the menu above; # By downloading a .csv file containing some or all of the data. This option is presented at the top of the catalogue page where you can filter and refine the data you would like to download; # By accessing the data via a JSON API (Application Programming Interface). Documentation on accessing data using this method is provided in the Technical Overview Section.
(source: website (November 2016))
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 12: Supplement, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 12, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
1734
Dold, Alban, Zwei Bobbienser Palimpseste mit frühestem Vulgatatext aus Cod. Vat. Lat. 5763 und Cod. Carolin. Guelferbytanus: Anhang: Geschabte Paulustexte der 1. Hälfte des 7. Jahrhunderts mit einer gleichzeitigen unbekannten Liste paulinischer Leseabschnitte in einer Bobbienser Handschrift (Cod. Vat. Lat. 5755), Texte und Arbeiten, 19-20, Beuron: Kunstschule der Erzabtei Beuron, 1931.
Anhang.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2016, last updated: November 2022