Abbo, Floriacensis (945-1004)
This composite manuscript contains various texts in chronicle form, some of them rare, regarding worldly and ecclesiastical rulers. It is a heavily edited and corrected manuscript from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy, which contains characteristic writings in various black and brown inks and which is richly decorated with many calligraphic initials in different styles. Based on various supplements, the time of its writing can be dated quite exactly to the middle of the 11th century.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Ado, Viennensis: Sammelband: Ado Viennensis: Chronicon; Aurelius Victor (Pseudo-): Epitome de Caesaribus; Abbo Floriacensis: De gestis Romanorum pontificum. Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: De gestis Romanorum pontificum (75vb–76ra) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: De gestis Romanorum pontificum. (76r–92v)
Incipit: x libello qui continet gesta Romanorum pontificum I. >B
Explicit: (91v) XCI. Gregorius natione Romanus Quibus assensum praebuit Martinus, imperialis spatarius.
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- Abbo, Floriacensis: Nachträge. (92v–93r)
Incipit: Item Gregorius sedit annos X, menses VIII, dies XXIIII
Explicit: Silvester qui et Girbertus benedictione est sublimatus. Johannes sedit annos. Romanus sedit annos. Benedictus sedit annos. Benedictus sedit annos.
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Aurelius Victor, Sextus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Busaeus, Johannes (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of two parts. The first, Carolingian (fol. 1–12) with its original texts (fol. 1v–11v), reflects a meeting between Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières that occurred in June of 836 in Seligenstadt. Lupus received the arithmetic book (Calculus) by Victorius of Aquitaine along with a now widely known model alphabet for Ancient Capitals. Around 1000, texts by Abbo of Fleury on the ‘computus' (reckoning the date for Easter) were then added at the abbot's home monastery on the Loire (fol. 12–28), along with an abacus table (fol. 1r). The resulting collection of documents contains key items for and from Abbo's technical scholarship and offers a slightly divergent counterpart to the contemporaneous Floriacensis, Berlin, Staatsbibl., Phill. 1833.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
- Victorius, Aquitanus: Calculus; Abbo Floriacensis: Computus Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Computistica. (11v) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Praefatio. (12r)
Incipit: Quoniam brevitatem semper obscuritas comitatur
Explicit: Idem de ceteris intellige.
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- Abbo, Floriacensis: Erster Kalenderentwurf. (12v) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Computistica. (13r–28v) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Rotulae; Horologium. (14r) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Zweiter Kalenderentwurf. (15r–17v) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Ephemerida Abbonis. (18v–20r) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis: Dritter Kalenderentwurf. (21r–22v)
Incipit: In annali sequente sunt ordines novem, qui alfabeto constat ad lunam
Explicit: Nonus vero ad diem Kalendarum et mensium. Hae sunt claves huius artis: Sine, sub, supra. Unum, nihil, unum, II, III, IV, V, VII, VII, VIIII, VIIII, XI.
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- Abbo, Floriacensis: Vierter Kalenderentwurf. (26v–27r) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Silvester II, Papa (Author) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of a single quaternio formerly bound with the present Cod. 250 of the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The quire continues the computistic content of the latter, here with Easter tables whose margins hold the Annales Floriacenses. The last page received a copy of Abbo's second letter to Giraldus and Vitalis.
Online Since: 12/18/2014
- Abbo, Floriacensis: [et al.]: Prologus de cyclo magno paschae; Cycli decemnovennali; Annales Floriacenses breves; Laterculus anterior Abbonis; Epistola secunda ad Geraldum et Vitalem. Found in: Standard description
- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description