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Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:4167709
Title	Aenigmata / Adhelm, and other text(s), VLQ 106
Content	Contains: (f. 1r-v) Liber pontificalis. Fragment. - (ff. 2v-8v) Aenigmata / Symphosius. - (ff. 8v-25v) Aenigmata / Aldhelm. - (f. 25v) De lorica / Adhelm. In Anglo-Saxon.
Creator/other	Aldhelm (640?-709) Symphosius, Caelius Firmianus. Christina (1626-1689) Daniel, Pierre (1530-1603) Petau, Alexandre (-1672) Petau, Paul (1568-1614) Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689) Benedictines of Fleury-St. Benoît, male, Saint Benoît-sur-Loire
Shelfmark	VLQ 106
Subject (topical)	Reading culture Reading culture (monastic) manuscripts (documents) historiography (MMDC) literature (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 9th century
Note	Origin and date: According to Bischoff 2004: "Westliches Frankreich, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Viertel". Script: Written by two scribes: ff. 2v-15v (A), 16r-25v (B). Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Contains a 11th-century flyleaf (= f. 1). Textual: (f. 1r-v) List of popes, from Lucius (d. 254) up to Symmachus (d. 514). - (ff. 8v-25v) With pen-trials and neumes in the margins, characteristic of Fleury. On f. 10r in a space following after the chapter headings, the scribe wrote Anglo-Saxon glosses to nymph names: "Nimphae aelfinni eadem et muse / Oreades duun. aelfinni ...". - (f. 25v) Later addition. Aldhelm's riddle De lorica in Anglo-Saxon (the so-called Leiden Riddle). Incipit: "Mec se vēta vong, vundrum frēorig ...". Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (De Meyier 1975): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:109990 Also described by MMDC.
Reference	Bischoff 2004 = B. Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts. Vol. 2 (Wiesbaden 2004), Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Bremmer & 2006 = R.H. Bremmer & K. Dekker (eds.), Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile. Vol. 13. Manuscripts in the Low Countries (Tempe 2006), Bremmer 1991 = R. Bremmer, Oudgermaans in handschrift. [Exhib.cat. UB]. [Leiden] 1991. Bremmer 2023 = R.H. Bremmer Jr. 'Function of Glossaries'. In: A. Seiler & al. (eds.) Medieval Glossaries from North-Western Europe. Tradition and Innovation. Turnhout 2023, p. 73-84, Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), De Groot & 1989 = A.J. De Groot & E.C.C. Coppens, Manuscripta canonistica Latina. Elenchus codicum necnon diplomatum iuris canonici ante a. 1600 in bibliothecis ac archivis neerlandicis. Nijmegen 1989, De Meyier 1975 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Latini. Vol. 2. Codices in quarto (Leiden 1975), Gerritsen 1969 = J. Gerritsen, 'The text of the Leiden Riddle'. In: English Studies 50 (1969), p. 529-544. Gerritsen 1983 = J. Gerritsen, 'Leiden revisited. Further thoughts on the text of the Leiden Riddle'. In: W.-D. Bald & H. Weinstock (eds.), Medieval Studies Conference. Aachen 1983, p. 51-59. MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections Mostert 1989 = M. Mostert, The library of Fleury. A provisional list of manuscripts. Hilversum 1989. Parkes 1972 = M.B. Parkes, 'The manuscript of the Leiden Riddle'. In: Anglo-Saxon England 1 (1972), p. 207-217. Parkes 1991 = M.B. Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers. Studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts. London [etc.] 1991. Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716, Silverstein 1976 = T. Silverstein, 'The Graz and Zürich Apocalypse of Saint Paul. An independent medieval witness to the Greek'. In: J.J.G. Alexander & M.T. Gibson (eds.), Medieval learning and literature. [Festschrift] R.W. Hunt. Oxford 1976, p. 166-180. Van Wijnbergen & 1988 = C. van Wijnbergen & H. Zapp, Verzeichnis kanonistischer Handschriften in den Niederlanden. Würzburg 1988,
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Part of	Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
Language	Latin English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Country	Netherlands
Published/created	France, western part, 9th century, second quarter