Manuscripts
f. iv
Incipit: ‘Hunc humilis librum fecit perscribere Baldo / Reddat in aeternum mitis cui praemia Christus’
The flyleaf bears an inscription with a Latin distich: Hunc humilis librum fecit perscribere Baldo / Reddat in aeternum mitis cui praemia Christus. Cf. similar Latin verses in Graz, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 790: Hunc humilis thomum Baldo craxare rogavit (another distich) and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 15815: Hunc humilis librum Liuphrammus scribere. Bieler calls attention to the “typically ‘Hibernian’ form of the infinitival verb”.(1)n. 1 Ludwig Bieler • Denis Meehan, ‘Adamnani de locis sanctis libri tres’ in Adamnan’s De locis sanctis... (1958): 30 n. 5.
f. 1r–f. 26v
[De locis sanctis] Heading/rubric: ‘Orditur praefatio libri Arculfi episcopi maxime de locis sanctis Hierusalem’
Written by Hand 1. After a preface and list of chapters (ff. 1r-2r.3), the text proper begins on f. 2r, where it is headed, in green capital letters, Incipit Libellvs Arcvlfi. Includes architectural drawings: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (f. 4v), Church of Mount Sion (f 9v), a floor plan of the Chapel of Ascension (f. 11v) and the Church of Jacob's Well (f. 17v).
f. 27–f. 42
Monastic educational text in the form of a dialogue between teacher and pupil. Edited from this manuscript in Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 34.