Trier, Bibliothek des Priesterseminars 61 (formerly R. iii. 13) (formerly R. iii. 13) Sedulius; Solinus and Glossaries; Marbode; Peter of Riga

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473. Trier, Bibliothek des Priesterseminars 61

(formerly R. iii. 13)

Sedulius; Solinus and Glossaries; Marbode; Peter of Riga

[Ker App. 36; Gneuss --]

HISTORY: A four-part compilation, the first an l lc Sedulius (imperfect), the second a 12c miscellany consisting of Sol in us, brief glossaries with A-S elements; the third, a 13c copy of Marbode's "Lapidary;' the fourth a 13c fragment of the Aurora of Peter of Riga. Presumably the parts were joined at the time of the 15c binding ( as separate 15c shelf marks appear on f. 1 r and f. 39r). Over 1000 OHG glosses (middle Franconian, Moselle district, with some OS elements, Bergmann 1966: 160-65, Tiefenbach 2001: 330-31) appear on ff. 9r-ll 4r, some of them influenced by or in fact exclusively OE glosses (Katara 1912:73), and on f. 115v is a table of runes probably derived ultimately from an A-S futhorc (Jungandreas 1967:164-67). Owned by and the parts apparently written at the Benedictine monastery of St. EuchariusMatthias at Trier, about one km. south of the old town. Several hands appearing in other St. Matthias manuscripts have been identified in the various parts of this one by Hoffman (1986: 507). Like many other St. Matthias manuscripts, it was part of a gradual dispersal during the 18c as assets were sold off (in the 15c, St. Matthias had about 875 codices); this one ended up in the library of the Jesuit Priesterseminar in Trier; the majority of medieval manuscripts in this collection are from St. Matthias (see Marx 1912: 1-6). Older shelfmark, "O 6''. The present binding is 15c, repaired and rebound in 1895.