Libri computi (Aachen encyclopedia)

Aratea text: De ordine ac positione stellarum; Excerptum de astrologia

North France — s. IX (859-860)

Selected literature: Saxl, Verzeichnis 1, pp. 59-66. — Bischoff, Katalog III, p. 426 Nordhumbrischer Koputus, Saint-Denis, IX. Jh., ca. Mitte und IX. Jh. 2 Hälfte — Borst, Schriften, pp. 303-304. — Entry in Innovative Knowledge DB.

2v- Libri computi Additions and omissions discussed by Borst, Schriften.

• (90r-91r) Excerptum de astrologia ›Excerptum de astrologia‹ Duo sunt extremi uertices mundi … — Marginal annotation by another contemporary hand: "Discite o iuuenes cum abraham caeli et cursus siderum cognoscere non cum epicurio uoluntatum adsertore uentri de seruire et luxuriare". The same text present also in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12117 and Strasbourg, BNU, Ms 326.

• (91r-99r) De ordine ac positione ›De ordine ac positione stellarum in signis‹ Est quidem hic ordo et positio siderum … — … Anticanis habet stellas III. Forty illustration of the constellations in green and brown colour; marking of the stars' position.

128r Pacificus of Verona: Horologium nocturnum Spera caeli quater senis horis dum reuoluitur Strecker K., ed. Rhythmi aevi Merovingici et Carolini, MGH Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini. Berlin, 1923, IV 692.

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