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LAMBETH LIBRARY
351
218]
Epistole Albyni siue Alcuyni monachi ad karolum et alios.
Also at top of f. 91 a in the hand as I think of John Boston
Inc. lib. Joh. Cassiani de vij collac. patrum J. xxiii.
(Capitula.) Descriptio theneseos oppidi etc. Expl. capitula . 91
Inc. pref, super septem collaciones (xlix. 477).
D rum virtutem profeccionis vestre
The order of the quires is wrong : quire 17 (ff. 123-130) should
follow f. 106 : then quire 16 (115-122) : then 15 (107-114).
Collatio 11 begins 95 b\ in. 127; iv. 116 ; V. 119; vi. 107,
ending imperfectly 114 b : siquidem aliquos iusticie caperet
III. 3. The first page of text is marked out and a title (xiv, xv in
Boston’s hand ?) written on it : Epistole Albini siue Alcuyni
monachi ad Karolum et alios.
The MS. was consulted by Jaffe and Pertz for their edition
(Momtmenia Alcuiniana, 1873). On p. 135 it is described
as L. ‘manu Anglosaxonica saeculi XI scriptus continet
f. 131 27-208 v epistolas 20 Alcuini sed nullam ineditam.’
Duemmler, MGPI. Epp. Karol. 11. p. 8, gives the same date.
Some supplementary collation was done for him by O.
Sommer and R. Priebsch. In reality I cannot conceive that
it is later than cent, ix, and it can hardly be late in that
century. The manuscript is a very stately production, and
has not received the attention which I think it merits.
The text of f. 131 a is just legible. It begins in Ep. 103 {Mon.
Ale. p. 434, 1. 11).
cursu(s) redigere conati sunt Ne.
From 131 b to 133 b a scholar of cent, xvii, puzzled by the
script, has interlined the words in ordinary hand, and
continues to do so at intervals afterwards.
Each of the Epistles whose beginning remains has a heading of
two lines (or one line) of capitals, which are filled in with
red, yellow, or a darker red which has gone brown. The
initial is usually rather elaborate, with convoluted lines,
broken at intersections, and birds’ or dragons’ heads.
f. 170 is sewn in with an original lace of skin.
The following Epistles remain. I give references to MGH. and
Mon. Ale. (with pages).
1 Ep. 155 (103, 434, 11 cursus redigere, as above) .... 131
f. 133 should follow 131.
2 136 (239, p. 756) f. 134 should follow immediately on 132 . 132$
3 no (67, p. 307)
4 148 (99, p. 414). The last part of this : Nuper mihi venit
libellus (p. 420, 1. 1), has a separate heading in two lines
of ornamented capitals . . . . . . . 148 b
5 145 (98, p. 407). After calamo corrigendum (p. 411, 1. 22) a
passage occurs (found nowhere else) : qua propter et aliud
351
218]
Epistole Albyni siue Alcuyni monachi ad karolum et alios.
Also at top of f. 91 a in the hand as I think of John Boston
Inc. lib. Joh. Cassiani de vij collac. patrum J. xxiii.
(Capitula.) Descriptio theneseos oppidi etc. Expl. capitula . 91
Inc. pref, super septem collaciones (xlix. 477).
D rum virtutem profeccionis vestre
The order of the quires is wrong : quire 17 (ff. 123-130) should
follow f. 106 : then quire 16 (115-122) : then 15 (107-114).
Collatio 11 begins 95 b\ in. 127; iv. 116 ; V. 119; vi. 107,
ending imperfectly 114 b : siquidem aliquos iusticie caperet
III. 3. The first page of text is marked out and a title (xiv, xv in
Boston’s hand ?) written on it : Epistole Albini siue Alcuyni
monachi ad Karolum et alios.
The MS. was consulted by Jaffe and Pertz for their edition
(Momtmenia Alcuiniana, 1873). On p. 135 it is described
as L. ‘manu Anglosaxonica saeculi XI scriptus continet
f. 131 27-208 v epistolas 20 Alcuini sed nullam ineditam.’
Duemmler, MGPI. Epp. Karol. 11. p. 8, gives the same date.
Some supplementary collation was done for him by O.
Sommer and R. Priebsch. In reality I cannot conceive that
it is later than cent, ix, and it can hardly be late in that
century. The manuscript is a very stately production, and
has not received the attention which I think it merits.
The text of f. 131 a is just legible. It begins in Ep. 103 {Mon.
Ale. p. 434, 1. 11).
cursu(s) redigere conati sunt Ne.
From 131 b to 133 b a scholar of cent, xvii, puzzled by the
script, has interlined the words in ordinary hand, and
continues to do so at intervals afterwards.
Each of the Epistles whose beginning remains has a heading of
two lines (or one line) of capitals, which are filled in with
red, yellow, or a darker red which has gone brown. The
initial is usually rather elaborate, with convoluted lines,
broken at intersections, and birds’ or dragons’ heads.
f. 170 is sewn in with an original lace of skin.
The following Epistles remain. I give references to MGH. and
Mon. Ale. (with pages).
1 Ep. 155 (103, 434, 11 cursus redigere, as above) .... 131
f. 133 should follow 131.
2 136 (239, p. 756) f. 134 should follow immediately on 132 . 132$
3 no (67, p. 307)
4 148 (99, p. 414). The last part of this : Nuper mihi venit
libellus (p. 420, 1. 1), has a separate heading in two lines
of ornamented capitals . . . . . . . 148 b
5 145 (98, p. 407). After calamo corrigendum (p. 411, 1. 22) a
passage occurs (found nowhere else) : qua propter et aliud