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W. M. Lindsay and P. Lehmann
clearly marked by an interval, e. g. quot horis lu-
ceat luna.
a rhythmic setting of Bede Rat. Temp, xxiii Et ideo
si nosse vis luna secunda quot horas luceat, multiplied
per quatuor, etc. It is to be edited by Baxter in the
Bulletin Ducange.
A page (fol. 17r) from the Treves portion (foil. 1-44) of this
MS. is exhibited in plate 29 of Ehrle and Liebaert
' Specimina '. In the Calendar on foil. 64-69 the
entries are by different hands of different dates. One
(preceded by Greek Theta) at April 15 (not 17),
bernhardi regis, must be a contemporary entr}^ of the
death of Bernard, the natural son of Pippin, king of
Italy, who died at Aix-la-Chapelle in 818. Another,
at May 6, records a birth, nidhard (with cross-barred d)
natus est fer. HII.
The 2-S3nnbol in tur appears both in the Treves portion and
the rest (but the apostrophe-symbol on fol. 70r riox
longissima proditur). The at ' autem ' on foil. 71v, 72r
may (or may not) come from the exemplar. But
the Insular nc 1 nunc', u (with suprascript 6) ' vero',
and possibly (fol. lllr) q (with cross-stroke) 'quia'
were current at the scriptorium (Mayence?).
Pal. lat. 161 Lactantius Inst., in oblong quarto (or large octavo),
foil. 236, by more than one scribe. At the end (fol. 236v)
in large minuscules (not by the same hand as the text):
So it was written at St Amand when Lotharius presided over
the scriptorium, saec. viii-ix (see Traube ' Schreiber
Lotharius von S. Amand ' in Centralbl. Bibl. IX [1892],
p. 87, who thinks it passed through Fulda from St
Amand to Mayence. / longa is not used. The apo-
strophe-symbol appears in tur, but one scribe affects
the 2-form.
Curre, quaere
tunc secundam
hanc eandem
certum scire
cerne lunam
per tessera,
Antestis Domini nimium praeclarus Amande,
Hunc tibi Lotharius librum sic scribere fecit.
W. M. Lindsay and P. Lehmann
clearly marked by an interval, e. g. quot horis lu-
ceat luna.
a rhythmic setting of Bede Rat. Temp, xxiii Et ideo
si nosse vis luna secunda quot horas luceat, multiplied
per quatuor, etc. It is to be edited by Baxter in the
Bulletin Ducange.
A page (fol. 17r) from the Treves portion (foil. 1-44) of this
MS. is exhibited in plate 29 of Ehrle and Liebaert
' Specimina '. In the Calendar on foil. 64-69 the
entries are by different hands of different dates. One
(preceded by Greek Theta) at April 15 (not 17),
bernhardi regis, must be a contemporary entr}^ of the
death of Bernard, the natural son of Pippin, king of
Italy, who died at Aix-la-Chapelle in 818. Another,
at May 6, records a birth, nidhard (with cross-barred d)
natus est fer. HII.
The 2-S3nnbol in tur appears both in the Treves portion and
the rest (but the apostrophe-symbol on fol. 70r riox
longissima proditur). The at ' autem ' on foil. 71v, 72r
may (or may not) come from the exemplar. But
the Insular nc 1 nunc', u (with suprascript 6) ' vero',
and possibly (fol. lllr) q (with cross-stroke) 'quia'
were current at the scriptorium (Mayence?).
Pal. lat. 161 Lactantius Inst., in oblong quarto (or large octavo),
foil. 236, by more than one scribe. At the end (fol. 236v)
in large minuscules (not by the same hand as the text):
So it was written at St Amand when Lotharius presided over
the scriptorium, saec. viii-ix (see Traube ' Schreiber
Lotharius von S. Amand ' in Centralbl. Bibl. IX [1892],
p. 87, who thinks it passed through Fulda from St
Amand to Mayence. / longa is not used. The apo-
strophe-symbol appears in tur, but one scribe affects
the 2-form.
Curre, quaere
tunc secundam
hanc eandem
certum scire
cerne lunam
per tessera,
Antestis Domini nimium praeclarus Amande,
Hunc tibi Lotharius librum sic scribere fecit.