Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 352: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica

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Summary: CCCC MS 352 contains Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Arithmetica. It was written in the middle of the tenth century at St Augustine's, Canterbury, in the script known as 'Square minuscule', a Southumbrian English variety of Insular minuscule. It is quite a large format book, elegantly written with large margins, and was probably always intended to contain the glosses which have been added by contemporary and slightly later hands. The manuscript may have had a Welsh exemplar. It has later provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury and is included in its medieval library catalogue. At some point it has lost its ending.
Contents: De institutione arithmetica

Alternative title	Boethii Arithmetica
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 80
Date created	[ca. 800 CE - 999 CE]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	22 lines to a page
Height (mm)	300
Width (mm)	220
Collation	1(8)-9(8) 10(?2) (2 canc.) 11(8) (wants 8).
Writing	in a beautiful insular minuscule
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-80 + iii-iv
Provenance	From St Augustine's, Canterbury: on f. ir (xiv):Arsmetica Boecii cum A. Liber Sancti Augustini Cant.
Additions	On f. iv in an earlier black hand: Arimethica Boetii. Ancient Libraries, p. 303, no. 1008., On f. ir a quatrefoil diagram, marked with Roman numerals, in many compartments. At top and bottom Longitudo, on R. and L. Latitudo, in capitals. It occurs again at the head of cap. XII, f. 14r.
2 fo.	caligantibus

M.R. James Date	ix-x
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hj882mr8697/MS_352.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sc154zw0657/352.pdf
Contains	Title Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. 2r-80v Author Boethius Note In red Rubric (2r) Domino meo patricio suma fide boetius salutem Incipit (2r) In dandis accipiendisque muneribus Note (LXII (actually LXIII) 1079) Glosses, some in small upright script, beginning: Incipit (2r) Ordo est. Si liquido constabit nec ab hoc aliud inuentum Note Others in the hand of the text Explicit (3v) auctor merito quam probator Note In red Rubric (3v) Finit prologus sesibuti (3v) Incipit prologus nicomachi Incipit (3v) Inter omnes prisce auctoritatis uiros Note Diagrams in red: some, e.g. on f. 30r, with slight ornament. Initials in green and red (34r) Liber II Ends imperfectly in capitulum liii (or liv) Explicit (80v) uel ab inaequalibus ad aequalia aequaliter uel quotlibet Note The last rubric is: Rubric (80v) De maxima et perfecta symphonia que tribus distenditur interuallis Note The signs used to show the references of the glosses to the text are very noteworthy
TJames	309
Stanley	2. 14
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xb651hx1944
Location	MS 352
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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