Aratea text: Hyginus, De astronomia

Freising (?) — s. IXⁱⁿ; Xⁱⁿ

Selected literature: Bierbrauer, Katharina. Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München: Band 1 : Die vorkarolingischen und karolingischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek : Textband. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1990, p. 145. — Bischoff, Bernhard. Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1980, p. 90, 119. — Costrino, Artur. ‘Alcuin’s Disputatio de Rhetorica: A Critical Edition with Studies of Aspects of the Text, the Stemma Codicum, the Didactic Diagrams and a Reinterpretation of Sources for the Problem of the Duality of the Dialogue’. Dissertation, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17792/. — Viré, Ghislaine. ‘La transmission du De astronomia d’Hygin jusqu’au XIIIe siècle’. Revue d’histoire des textes 11 (1981): 159–276.

Part I (ff. 1-47)

Freising — s. IXⁱⁿ

History: According to Costrino the text of the "Disputatio" was copied in Freising from Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6407 (itself written in Verona during the time of Pacificus and sent early in the s. IX to Freising).

1r-26v Alcuin: Disputatio de rhetorica Diagrams at the end of the text.

26v-47r Alcuin: Dialogus de dialectica Digram of the division of science at the end of the text (f. 47r).

47v blank.

Part II (ff. 48-69)

Freising (?) — s. IX (ca. 860)

48r blank.

48v-69v Geometrica artis

• List of 34 chapters ›Incipiunt capitula geometricae artis‹

• (49r-69v) ›De geometricae arte meditatoribus quid et qualiter eam debeant d[iscere]‹ Igitur geometricae artis peritiam qui ad integrum Geometrical figures.

Part III (ff. 70-91)

Freising (?) — s. IX^ex; Xⁱⁿ

70r-91v Hyginus: De astronomia

Catalogued by: Ivana Dobcheva