Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 1
Titre du manuscrit:
, Vita Columbae
Origine: Iona
Période: AD 688-713 (Gamper and Marti)
Support:
Parchment
Volume:
69 leaves (numbered pp. 1-138)
Format: 290 x 225 mm
Composition des cahiers:
Pp. i-ii (a modern, parchment flyleaf); pp. 1-120 = I-V12; pp. 121-138 = VI10 (wants 10); pp. 139-140 (a modern, parchment flyleaf).
Mise en page:
Two columns of 28 lines (250 x 200 mm); the addition on p. 137 is in a single column.
Type d'écritures et copistes: A single hand writing insular set minuscule, with initials decorated in the insular style. For E. A. Lowe, the hand represented “the pure milk of Irish calligraphy” (CLA VII, p. xii).
Sommaire:
- 1.
p. 1-136
Vita S. Columbae
>In nomine iesu christi orditur praefatio.<
Beati nostri patroni christo sufragante uitam discripturus fratrum flagitationibus obsecundare uolens …–…
magis ac magis glorificans in mensis sublimat honoribus qui est benedictus in saecula. Amen.
>Obsecro eos qui cumque uoluerunt hos discribere libellos … ad iurationem hoc in loco subscribant.<
- 1_1. (p. 1a-2a) [Prima] praefatio >In nomine iesu christi orditur praefatio.< Beati nostri patroni christo sufragante uitam discripturus …
- 1_2. (p. 2a-5a) Secunda praefatio >In nomine iesu christi secunda praefatio.< Uir erat uitae uenerabilis et beatae memoriae monasteriorum pater et fundator …
- 1_3. (p. 5a-6a) Primi libri kapitualtiones >Nunc primi libri kapitulationes ordiuntur.< De uirtutum miraculis breuis narratio …
- 1_4. (p. 6a-52b) Liber primus (de profeticis reuelationibus) >Incipit primi libri textus. De profeticis reuelationibus et uirtutum miraculis breuis narratio.< Uir itaque uenerandus qualia uirtutum documenta dederit in huius libelli primordiis …
- 1_5. (p. 52b-103b) Liber secundus (de uirtutum miraculis) >Nunc sequens orditur liber de uirtutum miraculis quae plerumque etiam profetalis praescientia comitatur. De uino quod de aqua factum est.< Alio in tempore cum uir uenerandas in scotia apud sanctum findbarrum …
- 1_6. (p. 103b-136a) Liber tertius (de angelicis uisionibus) >Hic tertius liber orditur de angelicis uisionibus.< In primo ex his tribus libellis libro ut superius commemoratum est …
Index Reference Number- BHL 1886
Edition- Adomnán. "Life of Columba" in Oxford Medieval Texts, ed. A. O. Anderson and M. O. Anderson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 2-234.
Translations- Adomnán. Life of Columba, trans. A. O. Anderson and M. O. Anderson (Oxford Medieval Texts). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 3-235.
- Adomnán of Iona. Life of St Columba, trans. R. Sharpe (Penguin Classics). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 103-235.
Bibliography - 2.
p. 136
Scribal colophon
Quicumque hos uirtutum libellos …–… ut uitam post mortem aeternam possedeam.
Edition
- Adomnán. "Life of Columba" in Oxford Medieval Texts, ed. A. O. Anderson and M. O. Anderson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 234.
Translations- Adomnán. Life of Columba, trans. A. O. Anderson and M. O. Anderson (Oxford Medieval Texts). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 235.
- Adomnán of Iona. Life of St Columba, trans. R. Sharpe (Penguin Classics). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, rev. ed. 1991, p. 235.
- 3. p. 137 Paternoster in Greek Πατϵρ ημων ο ει εν τοις υρανοις …–… αλλα ρυσαι ημας απο του πονερου.
Origine du manuscrit:
Iona, written by the scribe Dorbbéne (see colophon on p. 136). The manuscript subsequently passed to Reichenau, though precisely when is unknown. An erased Reichenau
exlibris on p. 1, lower margin, indicates that it must have been before the 13th century. Subsequently, the manuscript is attested in the 1772 catalogue of the Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen.
Codicological Bibliography
- Gamper, R., and S. Marti. Katalog der Mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen. Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf Verlag, p. 1998.
- Scarpatetti, B. M. von, R. Gamper, and M. Stähli. Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550 (Vol. III). Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf Verlag, 1991, p. 112 and plate 1.
- Specht, R. "Wie kam Dorbénes Abschrift von Adamnans ‘Vita Sancti Columbae’ in die Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen?", Schaffhauser Beiträge zur Geschichte 65 (1988): 103-9.
- For further bibliography, see: IMB