Manuscript: BL Harley 2506
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Two prayers (one in verse : SK 7896) ; Hyginus, Astronomica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151); Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphaerae ; A collection of texts dealing with astronomy, including : De nominibus stellarum ; Cicero, Aratea, with scholia ; Excerpts from Pliny (Naturalis historia), Macrobius (in Somnium Scipionis), Martianus Capella ; Preceptum canonis Ptolemaei (Latin version, incomplete) ; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, bk.viii (incomplete) ; Remigius, Commentary on Martianus Capella, bk.viii (incomplete) : s. x/xi, Fleury, prov. England s. xi1. FC : Saxl and Meier (1953), pp. 157--160.
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Harley 2506
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 428.4
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- Unspecified
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 428.4)
Two prayers (one in verse : SK 7896) ; Hyginus, Astronomica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151); Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphaerae ; A collection of texts dealing with astronomy, including : De nominibus stellarum ; Cicero, Aratea, with scholia ; Excerpts from Pliny (Naturalis historia), Macrobius (in Somnium Scipionis), Martianus Capella ; Preceptum canonis Ptolemaei (Latin version, incomplete) ; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, bk.viii (incomplete) ; Remigius, Commentary on Martianus Capella, bk.viii (incomplete) : s. x/xi, Fleury, prov. England s. xi1. FC : Saxl and Meier (1953), pp. 157--160.