London, British Library, Royal 15. A xvi Juvencus, "Historia Evangelica;' Aldhelm, ''Aenigmata"; "Scholica graecarum glossarum''

Abstract

301. London, British Library, Royal 15. A xvi

Juvencus, "Historia Evangelica;' Aldhelm, ''Aenigmata";

"Scholica graecarum glossarum''

[Ker 267, Gneuss 489]

HISTORY: A late 9c continental manuscript of Juvencus and Alclhelm, missing at least a leaf at the end, combined with two 10c quires of a GreekLatin glossary (ff. 74-83) written in anglo-caroline script. Earlier commentators thought that the entire manuscript was continental, but the hands of the glossary (there are two) are A-S (so Ker, Cat.). There are two A-S supply leaves in the continental part, a single OE gloss word to the Aldhelm and another to the "Scholica" as well as a few added Latin glosses in an A-S script. Bishop (1957: 329) sees the hand of the supply leaf f. 7 as the same as that of scribe D of Bodleian Library Auct. D. Inf. 2. 9 i, ff. 17-23, a Cassian with Exeter provenance. Presumably the glossary was added to the continental manuscript to make it more useful as a class-book; the first part already had considerable glossing in continental hands. By the late 10c provenance was St. Augustine's, Canterbury (Rella 1980: 112, no. 20; O'Keeffe 1985: 67 shows textual connections with other probably early St. Augustine's manuscripts) and in the 13c it was provided with a St. Augustine's ex libris (f. 1r, 'lib<er> s<an>c<t>i aug<ustini> cant<uarensis>'), and shelfmark (f. 1r above), 'Di<stinctionem> XI. g(rad)u(m) n: A three-item table of contents is mixed up with this: 'Iuvencus. c<um> a: (same hand as ex libris and shelfmark) followed by '7 enigmata Aldelm: 'Scholica glosar<um>', in two other hands separated by about a century. It appears in the late 15c catalogue of St. Augustine's (in Trinity College Dublin MS 360 [Bernard 285], f. 106rb) "Juuencus cum A. et in eodem Enigmata aldelmi Scolica-glosarum, 2° fo. istius, D. xi. G. 2" (James 1903:364, no. 1438). The Aldhelm has been annotated by Patrick Young, James I's librarian (f. 59v, f. 60r, f. 63r). It was 'No. 413' in the Old Royal Library (f. 2r).