Number

398

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xii, fols. 4-77

Date

xi ex.

Origin

Salisbury

Provenance

[unknown]

Contents

• Egbert, Dialogus ecclesiasticae institutionis
• Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphaerae (table: ‘De cursu septem planetarum’, and pt ii)
• Hrabanus Maurus, De computo
• eight short poems, mainly computistical (SK 7632, 6489, 12559, 3727, 12524, 1716, 8931, 12491)
• on the two Poles of the World
• on Egyptian days (dies Aegyptiaci)
• on the libri catholici to be read in the course of the year
• on the pronunciation of the letters
• Greek and Hebrew alphabets, with interpretations
• list of numbers with their corresponding Greek names
• on concurrents
• on the Six Ages of Man
• Isidore, De natura rerum (CPL 1188)
• Abbo of Fleury, De duplici signorum ortu uel occasu
• three runic alphabets
• liturgical calendar
• a second calendar (fols. 72v-77v, added s. xi2, continental?)

Bibliography

MSS

• Planta (1802) 379-80
• N.R. Ker (1949-50) 153-6 [repr. N.R. Ker (1985) 177-8 and n.]
• R. Derolez (1954) 222-37
• N.R. Ker (1976b) 24, 25, 30, 38-9 [repr. N.R. Ker (1985) 144, 145, 150, 159-60]
• Stevens (1979) 194
• A.G. Watson (1987a) 60
• Dumville (1992a) 64-5
• Webber (1992) 12, 14, 23, 41, 63, 69, 74, 144-5, 159
• R. Gameson (1999a) nos. 419 and 420
• Chardonnens (2007b) 524-5, 552
• Rushforth (2008a) 53-4

ED

• Haddan—Stubbs (1869-71) III.403-13 [Egbert, Dialogus, repr. from the edition of Sir James Ware (1664), itself based solely on this MS]
• F. Wormald (1934) 85-97 [liturgical calendar (no. 7)]
• R. Derolez (1954) 222-37 [runic alphabets]
• Stevens (1979) [Hrabanus De computo coll. as V]
• R.B. Thomson (1985) 120-33 [Abbo, De differentia circuli et sphaerae, coll. as G]
• Rushforth (2008a) no. 26 [first liturgical calendar]

ST

• Van de Vyver (1935) 140-1 [Abbo of Fleury]
• Boutemy (1937) [poems]
• McNeill—Gamer (1938) 239 [Dialogus Egberti]
• N.R. Ker (1962-92) IV.813-14 [relationship to no. 258]
• Kotzor (1981) I.302*-311* [liturgical calendar]
• Munk Olsen (1982—) I.336 [SK 12524]
• Carley (1986) 112, 117
• Conner (1993) 83
• Baker—Lapidge (1995) xliv [Abbo of Fleury]
• Biggs et al. (2001) 8-9 [Abbo of Fleury
• Lendinara]
• Borst (2001) I.290-1 [liturgical calendar]
• Liuzza (2001) 213, 221 [prognostics]
• R. Sharpe (2001) 2-3 [Abbo of Fleury]
• N. Orchard (2002) I.54 and n. 102, 176 [liturgical calendar]
• Chardonnens (2007a) 338 [prognostics]
• Teresi (2007c) 343, 351, 365 [world map]