Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2269

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Parchment — IV + 225 + III* fols. — 515 × 330 mm — France — s. XI¹

Support: f. 138 is a double leaf foulded in two to fit the table of Abbo.

Selected literature: Viré, Ghislaine. ‘La transmission du De astronomia d’Hygin jusqu’au XIIIe siècle’. Revue d’histoire des textes 11 (1981): 159–276, esp. 210-212. By Vire N. 85, she considered it incomplete and contaminated; the text ends abruptly with book 4, ch. 14 in the middle of a page without any apparent reason; contaminated, because the errors in its readings correspond to two families. Consequently the manuscript is an 11th-century copy of an interpolated exemplar. — Leonardi, p. 488. — Borst, Schriften, p. 315. — Folkerts, Menso. ‘The Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes Ascribed to Alcuin’. In Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition, (IV) 1-9. Aldershot: Variorum, here p. 4.

1ra-3vc Alcuin: De dialectica

Carmen Alcuini O uos est aetat iuuenes quibus apta legendo … — … Auctorumque memor dic miserere deus.

Me lege qui ueterum cupias cognoscere sensus … — … Nauita quas pelagi portat ab ore suo.

›Incipit dialectica‹ K. Quia mentionem philosophiae … — … Socrates non disputat. EPAIROTE. ›Disputatio de dialectica et de virtutibus eius sapientissimi regis Karoli et Albini magistri explicit.‹

3vc-6vc Alcuin: De rethorica

Qui rogo ciuiles cupiat cognoscere mores … — … mel tibi portat apes.

›Incipit rethorica Albini magistri‹ K. Quia te uenerande magister … — … macula liuoris legentem non corrumpit

6vc-7ra Short text on the division of science with a schema Porro sapientiam phylosophiam ueteres uocauerunt id est omnium rerum diuinarum humanarumque scientiam … — … VII. Medicina est scientia curationum ad temperamentum et salutem corporis inuenta.

7ra-7va Isidore: Etymologiae (Lib. 3) [M] athematica dicitur latine doctrinalis scientia … — … et singuli quinque finiti sunt et omnes infiniti sunt. The work is attributed in the MS to Alcuin. See the running title on the upper margin: Arithmetica ALbini Magistri.

7vb [O] cto tonos in musica consistere musicus scire debet … — … quia sonus eorum praessior est quam superorum. Folkerts

7vb-8va Rest of the, f. 7v, the whole f. 8r and the first column of f. 8v, left blank probably for a treatise on geometry (see the running title: "Geometria Albini").

8vb-c Excerptum de astrologia Attributed here also to Alcuin (see running title: "Astrologia Albini"). [D] uo sunt extremi sunt uertices mundi … — … usque decurrit accipiens.

8vc Quem circulum unumquodque signorum tangat Text on the position of the constellations within the celestial sphere; found also in BAV, Ms Vat. lat. 4162 and in Metz, BM MS 271. ›Quem circulum unumquodque signorum tangat‹ A capite draconis tangit dextrum pedem engonasi … — … ultimam partem sagittae.

The rest of f. 8v, the whole f. 9r and around one third of the first column of f. 9v, left blank.

9va-16vc Boethius: In Porphyrium dialogi [H] iemantis anni tempore in aureliae montibus … — … postea consideratione tractabitur. PL 64, 9A-70D

17r left blank.

17va-24vc Boethius: Commentaria in Porphyrium [c] um sit necessarium crisarori eadem quae est apud aristotelem praedicamentorum doctrinam … — … et ad praedicamenta seruant. PL 64, 77A-158D.

25ra-40va Boethius: In categorias Aristotelis PL 64, 159A-294C.

40vb-41ra left blank.

41rb-52vc Boethius: In librum Aristotelis de interpretatione libri duo PL 64, 296B-329D.

53ra-86rb Boethius: In librum Aristotelis de interpretatione libri sex. Editio secunda seu maiora commentaria PL 64, 393A-638D.

86rc-vc ›Sententiae diversorum‹ Cum quidam audiente pythagora diceret … — … sed edero inquit ecce te et pecuniam perdo. Sententia attributed to ancient philoosophers. The sayings are ordered in topics, written in majuscul. Mentioned are the philosophers Socrates, Aristotel, Diogenes, Xenocrates, Aristippus and other.

87ra-90vb Boethius: De differentiis topicis libri quatuor PL 64, 1173B-1216D

90vb-92rb Boethius: Liber de divisione PL 64, 875D-892A

92rb- Boethius: ›Incipit liber communis speculationis de rethorica cognitione‹ Speculatio de rhetoricae cognatione PL 64.

more texts to be added.

Abreviated Literature:

Borst, Schriften	Borst, Arno. Schriften zur Komputistik im Frankenreich von 721 bis 818. 3 Vols. (MGH: Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 21, 1-3) Hannover: Hahn, 2006.
Leonardi	Leonardi, Claudio. "I codici di Marziano Capella," Aevum 34 (1960): 1-99 and 411-524.
PL	Patrologia latina ed. J. P. Migne. - Paris 1844ff.

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