Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLO 15

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  • (If necessary bifolia have been indicated by ˄).
    -- Booklet I contains: (f. 1r-v) **Historical notes by Bernard Itier (1163-1225).
    --- Booklet II contains: (ff. 2r-4r) Drawings (scenes from New Testament; Psychomachia). - (f. 4v/1-7) Introductory letter to Aesop’s fables / ‘Romulus’. - (f. 4v/7-45) Versus in laude S. Benedicti = Historia Langobardorum / Paul the Deacon. Excerpt from book 1 – (f. 4v/45-47) Sententiae septem sapientium. Excerpt based on Ludus septem sapientium / Ausonius. - (ff. 4v/47-5v/36) Aenigmata / Caelius Firmiatus Symphosius. - (f. 5v/37-45) Aenigmata. Anonymous. - (ff. 5v/45-8r/18) Fabulae / Avianus. - (f. 6v margin) Neumes. - (f. 8r/18-23) De laboribus Herculis / Ausonius. - (ff. 8r/23-10r/8) De martyrio Maccabaeorum / Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers. - (f. 10r/8-33) Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris / Remmius Flavianus. - (ff. 10v/34-11v) Periegesis / Priscian. Incomplete.
    --- Booklet III contains: (f. 12r-v/24) **Praefatio in arte Donati. - (f. 13r) **Ars minor / Aelius Donatus. Fragment. - (f. 12r/3 margin) Scholica Graecarum glossarum (continuation of f. 107r). - (f. 12r margin) Glossae miscellaneae. - (f. 12r-v margin) Charms, recipes. - (ff. 12v margin, 13r margin, 13v) Glossae biblicae.
    --- Booklet IV contains: (ff. 14r-15r) **Glossary: Haec quicumque legis. Fragment. - (ff. 15v-19v) Glossae biblicae (continuation).
    --- Booklet V contains: (f. 20r) De sancto Benedicto abbate / Odo of Cluny. Fragment of sermon 3. – (ff. 20v-21r) Martyrologium / Pseudo-Bede the Venerable. - (f. 21v/1-28) Conflictus veris et hiemis / Pseudo-Alcuin of York. - (f. 21v/29 ˄ 30r/29) Epitaphia Virgilii. - (f. 30r/30-32) Versus scottorum. - (ff. 21v ˄ 30r margins) Tonalities. - (ff. 21v ˄ 30r) De artibus ac disciplinis liberalium litterarum / Cassiodorus. Fragment. - (f. 30r margin) Temporal adjuncts (quando ‒ ante). - (f. 30v/1-12) De est et non / Pseudo-Priscian (Ausonius). - (ff. 30v/13-31v) In principio (Liber Alchandreus).
    --- Booklet VI contains: (f. 22r) Glossae biblicae (continuation). - (ff. 22v-29r/17) **Glossary: Haec quicumque legis. Final version including Old High German glosses. - (ff. 29r/18-29v) Glossae biblicae (conclusion).
    --- Booklet VII contains: (ff. 32r-32v In principio (Liber Alchandreus) conclusion. - (f. 32v pars inf.) Recipes and charms. - (ff. 33r-35r) **De mysterio Trinitatis et Incarnationis / Augustine of Hippo. Fragment of sermon 245. - (f. 36r) **Monte Libano. Fragment of a responsory (in a later hand).
    --- Booklet VIII contains: (ff. 37r-43r) Drawings (Psychomachia). - (f. 43v) Drawings (biblical, liturgical drama?). - (ff. 43v-44r) Meander decoration (drawing). - (f. 44r) Carmen in Christi honorem. Anonymous. - (f. 44v/1-8) Carmen XXV / Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius. - (f. 44v) Index operum Prudentii. - (f. 44v) Diagram with the four winds (Greek-Latin). - (ff. 45r-60v) Psychomachia / Prudentius. - (ff. 61r-62r/19) Versus de spera caeli. - (f. 62r/21-30) De signis caeli / Priscian. - (f. 62v) Disticha Catonis / Pseudo-Cato. Prologue.
    --- Booklet IX contains: (ff. 63r-79v/28) Expositio apocalypseos / Bede the Venerable. Incomplete. - (ff. 79v/29-82v/7) Expositio in Cantica Canticorum. Anonymous.
    -- Booklet X contains: (ff. 83r-104r/21) **Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini / Prosper of Aquitaine. - (ff. 104r/22-106r) **Carmen ad uxorem / Pseudo-Prosper of Aquitaine or Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola.
    --- Booklet XI contains: (f. 107r) Etymologiae / Isidore of Seville. Excerpt (II, 29). - (f. 107r margin) Scholica Graecarum glossarum (to be continued on f. 12r). - (ff. 107v-112v/5) **Praeexercitamina / Priscian. With Tironian notes. - (ff. 112v/5-114v) **De figuris numerorum / Priscian. Incomplete, with Tironian notes.
    --- Booklet XII contains: (ff. 115r-147v/7) Etymologiae / Isidorus of Seville. With Tironian notes. - (ff. 135v-136r margin) Neumes. - (ff. 138v-144r margin) Excerpts from charters of Saint-Cybard Abbey, Angoulême. - (f. 141v) **Ex libris Saint-Martial Abbey, Limoges. - (f. 147v/7-12) Colour recipes. - (ff. 147v/12-148r/9) De scholis artium in Gallia / Gauzbertus. Genealogy of grammarians. - (ff. 148r/9-153v/31) Aenigmata / Aldhelm. - (ff. 153v/31-154v) De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum (De septenario) / Aldhelm.
    -- Booklet XIII contains: (ff. 155r-188r/17) De astronomia / Gaius Julius Hyginus. - (f. 185v margin) Hymn with neumes (Sacerdotes dei). - (f. 187r margin) Historical notes on Godefridus’ appointment as the archbishop of Bordeaux and the third translation of St. Martial (1028). - (ff. 188r/20-190r/3) De natura rerum / Bede the Venerable. Chapters 14-17; with excerpts from (revised) Aratus Latinus and Scholia Strozziana. - (f. 190r/6) De astrologia Arati. Excerpt (one line). - (f. 190r) **List of houses belonging to Saint-Martial Abbey in Limoges / Bernard Itier. - (f. 190v) blank. - (ff. 191v-192r) Computus: texts and tables. - (f. 192r-193r) Lunaria, Revelatio Esdrae. - (ff. 193v-194r) Cycli decemnovenales, 1007-1063. - (f. 193v margin) Episcopal list of Limoges: Marcialis – Geraldus. - (f. 194r margin) Neumes. - (f. 194v) Episcopal list of Tours: Gatianus – Arnulfus.
    --- Booklet XIV contains: (ff. 195r-203v) Fabulae / Phaedrus/Romulus. Compilation; with Tironian notes. - (ff. 203v-210r) Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes / Alcuin of York (?). - (f. 206r ) Marriage charter. - (f. 210v) Marriage charter. - (f. 210v) Cufic lettering. - (f. 211r-v) Drawings (drafts). - (f. 212r) Mensurae crucifixi. - (f. 212v) **Note on book theft (14th cent.): “Raymundus de Begonac me furatus fuit”; drawings (?).
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    11th century

    Titre(s) :
    Notebooks of Ademar of Chabannes, VLO 15
    Liber manualis
    Historia Langobardorum
    Sententiae septem sapientium
    Aenigmata
    De laboribus Herculis
    Carmen de ponderibus
    Periegesis
    Accessus ad Donatum
    Ars Minor
    Sermons
    Sermones
    Martyrologium poeticum
    Conflictus veris et hiemis
    Epitaphs
    De Est et non
    De incarnatione domini
    Psychomachia
    Commentary on Apocalypse
    Cantica Canticorum
    Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini
    Carmen ad uxorem
    De praeexercitatio rhetoricis
    De figuris numerorum
    Nomenclator universalis
    De scholis artium in Gallia
    De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum
    Astronomica
    Naturalis historia
    Kalendarium
    Sententiae
    Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes

    Langue(s) des textes : latin

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  • The present 14 booklets of this manuscript are composed of 27 quires in which Ademar of Chabannes (989-1034) copied texts and drawings for use in school during the years c. 1010-1033. Originally Ademar bound these quires separately and provisionally with tackets. After Ademar’s death the quires were kept in St. Martial Abbey, Limoges, where he had spent the final years of his life. Testimony of this in the Ex libris note on f. 141v: “Hic est liber sanctissimi domni nostri MARCIALIS Lemovicensis ex libris bonae memoriae ademari Grammatici; Nam postquam idem [erased] multos annos peregit in domini servicio. ac simul in monachico ordine in eiusdem patris coenobio, profecturus hierosolymam ad sepulchrum domini nec inde reversurus multos libros in quibus sudaverat eidem suo pastori ac nutritori reliquid ex quibus hic est unus”. Eventually Bernard Itier, librarian of Saint-Martial, collected the assembled quires in one volume c. 1220. - On this manuscript see especially Van Els 2011, Van Els 2015 (edition) and Van Els 2020.
  • The writing dates from Ademar’s active years in Angoulême and Limoges (c. 1010-1033). More exact dating is difficult. Sometimes a post quem dating is possible (e.g. the description of the third translation of St. Martial in 1028) or a relative dating (the Expositio apocalypseos in VLO 15 is an adaptation of the Expositio apocalypseos in Berlin, SB, Phillipps 1664, which dates from c. 1029). Easter table (f. 193v-194r) for the years 1026-1063. List of Limoges bishops begun in the hand of Ademar, and continued by another hand after the name of bishop Jordanus (1020-1052). List of Tours bishops (f. 194v) has as last name bishop Arnulfus who succeeded Hugues I (died May 1023).
  • Foliation: In the old one-volume binding (since 1220) the present independent booklet VI was placed in the opening ff. 21v˄30r (a bifolium). Despite the new situation the old foliation of booklet VI, ff. 22-29, is still in use.
  • Textual: Contents mainly based on Van Els 2020, appendix 4 (which also marks texts and drawings in Ademar’s hand with asterisks). All texts edited by Van Els 2015.
  • Also described by MMDC, Handschriftencensus, Jonas and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).

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