Number

428.4

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Harley 2506

Date

x/xi

Origin

Fleury

Provenance

England s. xi1

Contents

• verse prologue to Hyginus (SK 7896)
• Hyginus, Astronomica
• verse epilogue to Hyginus (SK Suppl. 16255a)
• pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151)
• Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphaerae
• a collection of texts dealing with astronomy: prayer
• De sole et luna
• De nominibus stellarum
• Cicero, Aratea with Scholia Bernensia
• excerpts from Pliny (Naturalis historia), Macrobius (Comm. in Somnium Scipionis)
• Praeceptum canonis Ptolemaei
• Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, bk. VIII
• Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on Martianus Capella, bk. VIII

Bibliography

MSS

• Saxl—Meier (1953) 157-60 [full list of contents]
• Leonardi (1959) 467 n. 128
• Leonardi (1960) 73-5 [no. 98]
• Gremont—Donnat (1967) I.775, 776 n. 186, 777 n. 195
• T.A.M. Bishop (1971) xii n. 2, 18, 20
• Soubiran (1972) 110-11
• Munk Olsen (1982—) I.333
• Le Boeuffle (1983) l-li
• McGurk et al. (1983) 67-78
• Reeve (1983b) 22-4
• Reeve (1983d) 187-8
• Backhouse et al. (1984b) no. 43
• Mostert (1989) no. BF 380
• Lapidge (1992a) 111-12 [repr. Lapidge (1993a) 399-400]
• Viré (1992) xv, xxxvi-xl
• Lapidge—Baker (1997) 8-9 and nn.
• Webster—Brown (1997) 247 [no. 153]
• Ebersperger (1999) 190
• Lapidge (2006) 51-2
• Wieland (2009) 154
• R. Gameson (2012b) 101 and n. 30

DEC

• Homburger (1912) 5
• Niver (1939) II.681 n. 66
• F. Wormald (1952) 70-1 [no. 35]
• Alexander (1970b) 14
• Köhler—Mütherich (1971-99) IV.77
• E. Temple (1976) no. 42
• F. Wormald (1984) 83, 118, 155
• Ohlgren (1986) no. 147
• R. Gameson (1995b) 192 n. 1, 193 n. 6
• R. Gameson (2010) 100-5
• R. Gameson (2012c) 281 and n. 109

FACS

• F. Wormald (1952) pls. 13(a)-(b) [fols. 38r, 41r]
• E. Temple (1976) ill. 143 [fol. 38v (detail)]
• McGurk (1983) pls. X [fols. 36r, 36v], XI [fol. 37v], XII [fols. 38r, 38v, 39r], XIII [fols. 39v, 40r, 40v], XIV [fols. 41r, 41v], XV [fols. 42r, 42v], XVI [fols. 43r, 43v, 44r, 44v], XVII [fol. 44v] (all details)
• F. Wormald (1984) ill. 121 [fol. 40v (detail)]
• Noel (1995) ills. 79 [fols. 42v-43r], 80 [fol. 41r]
• Backhouse (1997) pl. 11 [fol. 42r (detail)]
• R. Gameson (2010) fig. 8 [fol. 37r]

ED

• Vogels (1884) [three texts preceding Cicero, Aratea]
• Buescu (1941) [Cicero, Aratea, coll. as B]
• Soubiran (1972) [Cicero, Aratea, coll. as B]
• Dell’Era (1979) 282-96 [Scholia Bernensia]
• Le Boeuffle (1983) [Hyginus, Astronomica, coll. as U]
• R.B. Thomson (1985) 120-33 [Abbo, De differentia circuli et sphaerae, coll. as J]
• Viré (1992) [Hyginus, Astronomica, coll. as L]
• Lapidge—Baker (1997) 24-7 [base MS for verse prologue and epilogue to Hyginus]
• Pingree (1997) [Preceptum canonis Ptolemaei]

ST

• Van de Vyver (1935) 141, 143
• C.E. Lutz (1962) I.52
• G.R. Evans (1979)
• McGurk et al. (1983) 67-78
• Noel (1995) 174-83
• Biggs et al. (2001) 8-9, 14-15 [Lendinara]
• Lapidge (2006) 51, 297, 308, 320, 321, 325
• Mostert (2010) 202-3
• Lapidge (2012a) 688