Basel, Öffenliche Bibliothek des Universitats F.III.15a Isidore, "De rerum natura'' (with quire of computus diagrams); Ps.-Isidore, "Differentiae;' Jerome, Ep. 60

Abstract

9. Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek des Universitats F.III.15a

Isidore, "De rerum natura'' (with quire of computus

diagrams); Ps.-Isidore, "Differentiae;' Jerome, Ep. 60

[Ker App. 2; Gneuss-; Lowe 7.842/843]

HISTORY: A compilation of two contemporary manuscripts of slightly different format, the first quire of the first part wanting. Written in a continental center with an A-S tradition, most likely Fulda, using "pointed" A-S minuscule scripts of 8c/9c, one hand on ff. 1v-23v and two others on ff. 24v-32v (Bergmann and Stricker 2005: 1.180). Other near-contemporary hands have added medical recipes, charms, etc. The warrant for inclusion of this manuscript in the series is an OHG charm on f. 17r which is thought to derive directly from an OE one. The manuscript was at Fulda by the 15c as shown by its Fulda shelfmark 'vii or. 7' and its likely earlier presence there is indicated by the name 'RATGAR' (or 'RATGART' or 'RATCART'; see Lehmann 1925: 13-14) incised on the ancient cover, probably a reference to the abbot of Fulda of that name (802-817). According to Lowe, Basel OBU F.III.15f (Lowe 7.848, Gneuss no. 786), the earliest English witness to Isidore's "De rerum natura;' of the Sc, which is of certain early Fulda provenance, was the source of astronomical notes in F.IIl.15a (see also Corradini 2003: 306-7 and Christ 1933: 166). The oldest Fulda booklist is on ff. 17-18. This manuscript (as well as F.111.15f ) was acquired ca. 1630 by the Basel professor Remigius Faesch (d. 1667), who, Fontaine (1960: 310) supposes, is responsible for the early modern notes and chapter numbers in item 1. Repaired by W. Bitz in 1950.