Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.IV.19 2 (quires 9-11), ff. 66-89 = additional quires in the Durham collectar
- s. x
Dekker, Kees, “Aldred’s appetite for encyclopaedic knowledge: the secret of warm and cold breath”, English Studies 93 (2012): 583–592.
abstract:
A series of encyclopaedic notes at the end of Durham, Cathedral Library, A.iv.19, includes a question on the origin of warm and cold breath immediately following a text listing the eight parts of which Adam was made. The two types of breath, made of fire and wind, respectively, form the spiritus . By linking the question on warm and cold breath to the history of octipartite Adam texts it has become clear that the spiritus relates to the Stoicπνϵμα or “cosmic breath”, a Stoic concept of the soul, which forms the key to the juxtaposition of these two notes.
Results for V (253)
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 16
Not yet published.
Pwyll y Pader ar Gredo and the Credo with commentary. The final part of f. 11r-v is illegible.
- s. xiv
German manuscript containing copies of works by Boethius, Severinus, Isidore of Seville and Eusebius. An item of Irish and Welsh interest is the letter known as the Bamberg cryptogram.
- s. x/xiin
Not yet published.
9th-century manuscript of a Greek psalter, with interlinear Latin text, and additional devotional material. It was written by multiple Irish hands, possibly in northern Italy.
- s. ix2/3/3/3
