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Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS H 150 inf = Bobbio computus

s. ixⁱⁿ

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Cuppo, Luciana, “Felix of Squillace and the Dionysiac computus I: Bobbio and northern Italy (MS Ambrosiana H 150 inf.)”, in: Immo Warntjes, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (eds), The Easter controversy of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: its manuscripts, texts, and tables. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 18–20 July, 2008, 10, Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 110–136.

abstract:

Thanks to a previously neglected fragment in the Bobbio Computus (MS Ambrosiana H 150 inf., 107v-109r) the original text of the computistical tract of Felix chillitanus can now be restored. On grounds of internal evidence and textual transmission its author can be identified as Felix of Squillace, a scholar of computus in the Alexandrian tradition propagated in the West by Dionysius Exiguus, then by Cassiodorus at Vivarium, and last by Felix in AD 616.

The fragment of Felix in the Bobbio Computus shows a recension independent from that known from the manuscripts Digby 63, 67r–v and 70v–71r, and Ambrosiana H 150 inf., 50v. It is inserted in the Etymologiae of Isidore (VI 17), but neither the arrangement of Isidore’s work nor the cycles in Etymologiae VI 17 resemble the standard edition. They may reflect the early organization of the work in fifteen books as arranged by Braulio, rather than the later division in twenty books attributed to Theodulf of Orléans.

The 95-year cycle also shows independent features. Though inserted in the Etymologiae and thus presumably Isidorian, it is quite unlike other known cycles from AD 627 to 721 (Ambrosiana L 99 sup., Digby 63). But there are also discrepancies between the contemporary cycles from 798 to 892 (Ambrosiana H 150 inf., 93v–98r) and those in the Felix/Isidore section of the same codex. Without further study we cannot determine when the texts of Isidore and Felix became known at Bobbio, but the evidence, such as it is, suggests that the Bobbio computist was not merely copying, but elaborating this material, and this fact may be indicative of a school of computistics at Bobbio in the seventh and eighth century.

Results for Milan (19)

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS A 138 sup

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS B 55 inf

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf = Antiphonary of Bangor

An early Irish liturgical manuscript containing a collection of Latin hymns and canticles, collects and antiphons. It is traditionally thought to have been written at the monastery of Bangor (Bennchor, Co. Down) during or close to the time of the abbacy of Crónán (r. 680-691). On palaeographical grounds, it has been dated to c.700. At some time, the manuscript was brought to the continent, if it did not originate there, and kept at Bobbio until the foundation of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, to which it was transferred in c.1606.

s. vii^3/3/viiiⁱⁿ

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 301 inf = Codex Ambrosianus C 301 inf

s. ix
Díarmait [scribe]

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS D 23 sup = The Bobbio Orosius

Illuminated copy of Orosius (Book I and the beginning of Book II), usually thought to have been produced in the 7th century at the Irish foundation of Bobbio, Italy.