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lx v ii Vienna lat. 42g, tw e lfth ce n tu ry , fro m S a lz b u rg .
Vienna lat. 532, ff. 3 2 - 4 7 v, tw e lfth c e n tu r y : b ook iii o n ly.
Vienna lat. 3157, late fifteen th ce n tu ry , a v e r y u g ly c o p y on p a p er, w ritte n b y a scrib e ca lle d W o lfg a n g o f E n z e s d o rf.
Others of which no details are yet available are Breslau, Rehdigeranus 43, a .d . 1449; Gotha memb. I 63, twelfth century, from St. Vincent at M etz;1 St. Florian xi. 247, twelfth century, from Waldhausen; St. G all 547> twelfth/thirteenth century;2 Vienna lat. 443, twelfth century, from Frankenthal, between Speyer and Worms. The copy recorded at Colmar in Migne's Dictionnaire des
Manuscrits, I (Paris, 1853), col. 362 is not there now; the two copies recorded at Strasbourg were presumably both burnt in 1870, and one of the copies at Dresden, M S. J44, thirteenth century from Altzelle, was destroyed without trace in 1945. In particular, a group of copies in south Germany or Austria may well prove to be closely related, like the south-German family of the Latin
Josephus:3 Admont 326 and 552, Heiligenkreuz 145, Klosterneu burg 685, Munich lat. 18198 of a .d . 1479 from Tegernsee, Prague
Domkap. G. xxvii (1020), Reun 59, Vienna lat. 13707 of the fifteenth century, Zwettl 106. The copy recorded in the catalogue of Melk in 1483 followed Eusebius, and was perhaps printed, like that at the Vienna Dominicans (below, p. lxx, n. 5).
The existence of these two textual provinces (so to say), which we have called for convenience French and German, lends a special interest to a very handsome twelfth-century copy now or lately in the hands of Messrs. Quaritch in London, which bears the ex-libris of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.4 This belongs, as far as some indeterminate point perhaps in book iii, to our
'German' family; the text then changes to the 'French' family, and at the end is the piece De consanguinitate, added to the M tradition, as we have seen, in the ninth century and perhaps in the Palace School, making what is probably its last appearance. vi. Copies containing the Continuation We have briefly referred (p. xlv) to another family of manu scripts, in which at the end of the History the annals of Book v,
1 R. Ehwald in J . B . Maugérard (Traube's Palaeographische Forschungen, ill, Munich, 1904), p. 359.
2 Bruckner, Scriptoria, iii. 107.
3 F. Blatt, The Latin Josephus, 1 (Copenhagen, 1958), 56-60.
4 For permission to inspect this book, I am much indebted to Mr. E. M.
Dring of Quaritch, librorum amicis amicus ipse.
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c. 23 were continued, by someone interested in Northumbria, from A.D. 731 to 766. This Bedae Continuatio was first printed by Johannes Gravius in his Antwerp edition of 1550; H. Petrie in the Monumenta Historica Britannica of 1848, p. 288, added the evidence of two Phillipps M SS., believed to be those now in Manchester and Princeton; and Plummer (x, pp. 361-3) reprinted the text, having seen only one manuscript, that now in the British
Museum. This Continuation, printed below on pp. 572-6, is known to survive in the following copies:
Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek J 45, a twelfth-century volume with the ex-libris of Pegau, not far to the south of Leipzig. This suffered severely from fire in 1945, but is still mainly legible, and has at the end the Northumbrian annals, with the proper names somewhat less fully latinized than in the others.
Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek I 58a, twelfth century (first half), with handsome initials, and in what seems to be its original binding.
Inside the lower cover is clearly to be seen the set-off of a page of canon-tables from an eighth-century Insular gospel-book, either the fragment recorded by Lowe (v iii, no. 1229) or another leaf from the same book. The names in the annals are fully latinized, and at the end are eight Versus super sepulchrum Bede presbiteri, printed below on p. lxxiv.
Manchester, John Rylands Library, latin 182 (formerly Phillipps 1089), also of the twelfth century, from München-Gladbach, the Benedictine abbey eighteen miles west of Düsseldorf and about the same distance from the border of what is now the Netherlands.1
This has the same epitaph at the end, and then follows the Visio Wettini.
Princeton (N .J.), University Library possesses in the Kane Collection a copy of the History (formerly Phillipps 256), which is said to be fourteenth-century, and to contain the Continuatio.2'
British Museum, Additional 10949 is a paper book written in 1420 by the Poor Clares of St. Anne's convent at Kämpen on the Ijssel, not a hundred miles as the crow flies north of Gladbach. The History is followed by the Continuatio with Bede's epitaph, and by his De sex aetatibus mundi.
Leiden, University Library, Vossianus lat. Q. 57 is a handsome volume in its original binding, with the title-label under horn still
1 M. R. James, Catalogue of Latin M SS. in the John Rylands Library, 1 (1921), 308.
1 When listed by S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson, Census of M SS. in the U.S.A. ii (1937), 1891, it was in the library of Mr. Grenville Kane of Tuxedo Park
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lxiz on th e u p p e r co ve r. It is w ritte n in a g o o d m id -fifte e n th -ce n tu ry
D u tc h h an d , an d b ears th e co n te m p o ra ry e x -lib ris o f E e n ste y n n ear D o rd re c h t. L a t e r it b elo n g ed to th e B re th ren o f th e C o m m o n
L if e ( ' D o m u s fra tru m co llation is s. P a u li' ) in G o u d a , a n d to th e e ig h te e n th -ce n tu ry classical sch o la r P ie ter B u rm a n th e yo u n g er.
T h e History an d Continuatio are fo llo w e d b y B e d e 's De natura rerum.
Utrecht, University Library 735 (4. F. 12), in a b o ld fifte e n th -ce n tu ry
D u tc h h an d , w h ic h co m es (as th e b in d in g sh o w s) fro m th e C a n o n s
R e g u la r o f U tre c h t, has th e Continuatio an d tw o ep itap h s at th e en d .
Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian T. 4. 3, w ritte n on p a p er in I 5 I 5 b y Jo h a n n e s E m b r ic e u s fo r th e B re th re n o f th e C o m m o n L if e in G o u d a , fro m w h o m like th e L e id e n M S . it p a sse d later to th e y o u n g e r B u rm a n , m a y v e r y w e ll p ro v e to b e lo n g h ere to o .1
The origin of this small group is a problem that has not yet been attacked. The Continuatio must come ultimately from eighthcentury Northumbria, and it is easy to suppose that a volume containing it attached to the History crossed over to the Continent not long after the last event which it records. If so, what happened then? The mere presence or absence of the Continuatio does not suffice to identify the offspring of that volume, for any continental copyist not interested in Northumbria might omit it; and, in theory at least, the common ancestor of what we have for con venience called the 'German family' might have contained it, though it survives only in one small group. Or does this group represent an independent migrant from Northumbria? Further study, handicapped though it will be by work on such very late material, may throw some light on all this; and if it replaces these tentative suggestions by something more definite and nearer the truth, so much the better.
V II. The text in Italy When this brief chapter of the story comes to be written, the central piece will no doubt prove to be an early ninth-century copy from Nonantola, which appears in the catalogues of that library from 1166 to the end of the fifteenth century.2 This passed about 1660 to Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome, whence like other codices Sessoriani it was abstracted early in the nineteenth century
1 J. Young and P. H. Aitken, Catalogue of the M SS. in the Hunterian Museum (Glasgow, 1908), no. 86.
2 G. Gullotta in Studi e testi, 182 (1955), 369 and 447.