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De bissexto (Pseudo-Alcuin)
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Short computistical treatise on the bissextus, formerly attributed to Alcuin but now considered to be an anonymous work. In the manuscripts, it is closely associated with another short tract known as De saltu lunae. It consists of two parts, usually headed De bissexto and Aliud argumentum de bissexto.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 309
rubric: Incipit de bissexto incipit: De bissexto primum
f. 74r–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 309
rubric: Argumentum de materia bissexti id est de quadrante incipit: Si ergo nosse vis
f. 78v
Text
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1613
rubric: Aliud argumentum de bissexto
f. 11v
Sources
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[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Traditio catholica, saeculum ix, annus 804, B. Flacci Albini seu Alcuini ... opera omnia, Patrologia Latina, 101, Paris, 1863.
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cols 994–995 direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Springsfeld, Kerstin, Alkuins Einfluss auf die Komputistik zur Zeit Karls des Grossen, Sudhoffs Archiv Beihefte, 48, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2002.
203–214; 291–293
MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>.
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