Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283 (f.114) Short comments on grammar and the liberal arts, extracts from Ælfric's translation of Bede, "De temporibus anni"

Abstract

481. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana,

Reg. lat. 1283 (f. 114)

Short comments on grammar and the liberal arts,

extracts from Ælfric's translation of

Bede, "De temporibus anni"

[Ker 393; Gneuss 918]

HISTORY: Reg. lat 1283 is a collection of unrelated manuscript fragments evidently made in or before Queen Christina's time. A reader has written in the margin the names of writers cited. When Queen Christina of Sweden died in Rome in 1689 the collection went with the rest of her manuscripts to the Vatican in 1690, where each leafreceived the stamp of Pope Alexander VIII (1689-91). Since 2001 the collection has been bound in a handsome binding of thick polished wooden boards and spine of brown calf which also covers the adjacent one third of the boards, and there are two clasps with leather straps to hold the book closed. Folio 114 was originally written in English caroline minuscule in the second half of the 10c, to which the OE (item 3) was added in vernacular minuscule in the first half of the llc. Since the leaf shows rust marks in the top margin, it was probably next to a former binding and therefore either at the beginning or the end of a book, where it was perhaps used as protective material regarded as expendable. Having been removed it became part of this collection of fragments. Description of this leaf, Blake 2009: 18.