Early Medieval Glosses And The Question Of Their Genesis
A Case Study On The Vienna Bede
About the Vienna Bede
Physical description
Material: Parchment
Dimensions: 300mm x 245mm
Condition: "The manuscript is in a bad condition, damaged by water and wormholes, and
part of folio four has been cut away" (Bauer 2017, 30).
Folios count: 4
Foliation:
Foliation in Arabic numerals is not visible on folio 1.
Folio 2 is numbered in red on the bottom of column b and folio 3 in grey on the
top of column b. Folio 4 is numbered twice on the bottom of column b: first in
red and then in grey.
Layout:
The folios usually have two columns and
between 40-47 lines (depending on the condition of the folio).
Binding: 19th century library binding (half parchment)
Hand:
One main hand in Insular minuscule. The name of the scribe is unknown.
History
Date:
Late 8th to early 9th century.
Place:
Unknown, but "somehow connected with the Karlsruhe Bede"
(Dillon 1956, 341).
Provenance: Unknown before the 18th century.
Acquisition: There is no record of the acquisition of no. 2269. First catalogued in the
18th century.
E cod. P.V.2269. [REc. 429.] fol. 1r
Selected bibliography
Bauer, Bernhard (2017). 'New and
corrected MS readings of the Old Irish glosses in the Vienna Bede', in Ériu
67, 29-48.
Dillon, Myles (1956). 'The Vienna glosses
on Bede', in Celtica
3, 340-345.
Stokes, Whitley (1872). Goidelica: Old
and Early-Middle-Irish Glosses, Prose and Verse. London: Truebner
and co, 51-53.
Stokes, Whitley and Strachan, John (1901-1903). Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. I and II. Cambridge:
University Press.
Strachan, John (1902). 'The Vienna
Fragments of Bede', in Revue Celtique
23, 40-49.
Zimmer, Heinrich (1881). Glossae
Hibernicae. Würzburg: Weidmannos, 253-258.