Apocalypse with commentary. Spain, s. XI med. Latin.
This manuscript preserves the only extant copy of a commentary on the Apocalypse (1:1-5:7, 18:6-19:21 and 20:1-22:21) by Bishop Apringius of Pace (Beja, Portugal), who lived in the mid-6th century. The entire codex is a palimpsest, deriving from four separate manuscripts, two of which are from responsorialia from the 10th-11th century. There are also the remains of a 9th-century Catalonian Forum Iudicum written in early Visigothic minuscule.
Contents:
II. 24v-97v: Apringius Pacensis, Tractatus in Apocalypsin.
Physical description:
History:
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Bibliography:
I. 1r-24r: Apocalypsis beati Ioannis Apostoli. The Apocalypse of St. John.
Incipit: “Apocalipsis iesu Christi quam dedit illi deus palam facere seruis suis, que oportet fieri cito”
Rubric: “Incipit Tractatus in apokalipsin eruditissimi uiri Apringi episcopi Pacensis ecclesie”
Final rubric: “EXPLICIT EXPOSITIO APOCALIPSIS QVAM EXPOSVIT DOMNVS APRINGIUS EPISCOPUS. DEO GRACIAS AGO. FINITO LABORE ISTO.
EFPHSBDKBTBHPGKOVPMCBPSFKTVP”
Text editions:
Apringius, ed. Férotin
Apringii Pacensis episcopi Tractatus in Apocalypsin, ed. Vega
Form:: Codex.
Support: Parchment.
No. of leaves: ii + 97 + ii. 201 x 129 mm.
Collation: 1-3:8, 4:6, 5-13:8. There are quire signatures in red ink in the centre lower margin, ‘ii’-‘viiii’, on ff. 39v, 47v, 55v, 64v, 71v, 79v, 87v and 95v.
Layout: Written in one column throughout; 24 lines per page.
Script: Written in one hand, a practised caroline minuscule.
Decoration: There are red initials and headings throughout. An initial, B, on f. 24v, beginning the second item.
Binding: Brown calfskin, 209 x 137 x 60 mm, previously with two clasps.
Foliation: The manuscript was foliated by Kålund.
Additions: At the bottom of f. 97v there are four lines, written apparently in the 17th century, which read: “Barcinonæ descriptus est liber iste ex alio vetustiore manu exarato, ann. Mxxxxij et emptum anno M.Dc.xvj. Agit de auctore M. Maximus Episcopus Cesarang. et de Scripto Isidorus Hispanensis Archi-episcopus, ille in chron. ann. 529 iste de viris illustribus.”
Origin: Written in Spain in the middle of the 11th century (1042 according to the marginal note on f. 97v).
Provenance: The Spanish scholar Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598) has written his name on f. 97r, and may be presumed to have owned the manuscript. It came somehow into the possession of etatsråd Holger Parsberg (1636-1692), who has written his name twice, once on the front pastedown and once on f. 1r, the former dated 1680 and the latter 1682. Following Parsberg's death the manuscript was bought by etatsråd Jens Rosenkrantz (1640-1695) when Parsberg's library was auctioned off (23.10.1693).
Acquisition: The manuscript was acquired by Árni Magnússon from the estate of Jens Rosenkrantz, presumably at auction (the auction lot number 468 is written in red chalk on the flyleaf), either in 1696 or 97.
Record History: Catalogued 23.09.99 by MJD.
Availability: The manuscript is in poor condition, due to many of the leaves being brittle and fragile and the poor quality of a number of earlier repairs; it should therefore not be used or lent out until it has been conserved.
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Accompanying material:
There are four slips, three of them in Árni Magnússon's hand.
Also kept with the manuscript is a letter from Bonifatius Fischer OSB, of the Vetus Latina Institut in Beuron, who investigated the manuscript in 1957.ia c. 17. Explicationem Apocalypseos B Johannis subtili sensu atq
Interiit opus istud: Loaisa tamen in notis suis ad Isidori catalogum testatur se in Hispania vidisse opus ingens manuscriptum in Apocalypsin Gothicis literis exaratum, ex Victorini Isidori, ex Aprigii libris, uti præ se tulit præfatio consarcinatum. Scripsit Aprigius teste Isidoro, et alia qvædam, qvorum nec nomina supersunt.”
Guilh. Cave Hist: Lit: pag 289.
Under this is written in another ink, but possibly the same hand: “p: 409. edit: Londin:”
