Trier, Stadtbibliothek MS. 40/1018 Biblical glossae collectae ("C"), "Absida" glossary, 'Abactus" glossary, etc. plus added marginal texts including glossaries, letter of Jerome, medical recipes and charms, Ps. Antonius Musa, "De herba vettonica liber;' etc.

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474. Trier, Stadtbibliothek MS. 40/1018

Biblical glossae collectae ("C"),

"Absida" glossary, "'Abactus" glossary, etc.

plus added marginal texts including glossaries,

letter of Jerome, medical recipes and charms,

Ps. Antonius Musa, "De herba vettonica liber;' etc.

[Ker App. 35; Gneuss--]

HISTORY: The main text, written in several 10c hands (late l0c/llc according to Bergmann and Stricker 2005: 4.1688), is a collection of biblical glossaries; to this has been added by several other 10c-12c hands in top margins various glossaries and sententiae and in the bottom medical information; the manuscript has 160 Germanic glosses, OHG of the middle Franconian dialect and some OE-derived words, as well as a charm in OS (f. 19v) and another in OHG (ff. 35v-37v) (see Bergmann 1966: 152-55). In the 15c the manuscript was owned by the Cistercian monastery of Himmerod in the diocese of Trier as shown by the 15c ex libris (f. lr/12-13 'Liber monachoru<m> s<an>c<t>e marie i<n> hym<m>erode ord<inis> cisterc<iensis> trevern<ensis> dyoc<ecis>'). The 15c Himmerod shelf mark was 'V iiij: written f.lr/9 in the same characters as the ex libris and more formally (about 1500) at the bottom (below the modern "Stadtbibliothek" stamp), all this written over and without regard to what was already written (or effaced) on the page. All the older Himmerod books available for inspection at the TrierS tadtbibliothek show the same type of shelfm ark, a letter followed by a roman numeral (e.g., Stadtbib. 1348/90, a 13c "Gesta Romanorum Pontificis;' shows 'G xxxi' in the same style of formal inscription). The book came to the Trier Statdbibliothek with about a dozen others after the dissolution of the monastery in 1803; the usual notice of accession is on f. 2v, top: 'Bibi. pub!. civ. Trev. 1803' written right over the older text.

The manuscript was conserved and rebound in 1974. At that time the old flyleaf, a fragmentary bifolium from a 9/l0c "Passio St. Sigismundi" was removed (the verso is shown on the film, made prior to 1974). This leaf shows on the verso two 19c Stadtbibliothek shelfmarks, 'No. 663; and the older 'D. I. w.4'. The old back flyleaf, from a 14c liturgical manuscript, though present on the film, is no longer in the book and is presumed lost. The paper bookmark (170 x 50 mm.), a "laundry list" dated 1674 (at end of film, Anno 1674 | den 21 mey | hembdes - 3 j hoßen - 1 paar | söcken 2 paar | F.G.L), was still kept loose in the book at the time of inspection (1996). Description by Steinmeyer and Sievers 1879-1922: 5.79-83, Bergmann and Stricker, no. 879).

_{[Note: The photos show a mechanical folio-counter placed on the versos: it begins with "f. 0v" on f. 1 v and so is consistently one behind the true foliation, which is intermittently legible in pencil in the bottom right-hand corners.]}