Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (S. IX)
The manuscript consists of two parts. The first, Carolingian (fol. 1–12) with its original texts (fol. 1v–11v), reflects a meeting between Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières that occurred in June of 836 in Seligenstadt. Lupus received the arithmetic book (Calculus) by Victorius of Aquitaine along with a now widely known model alphabet for Ancient Capitals. Around 1000, texts by Abbo of Fleury on the ‘computus' (reckoning the date for Easter) were then added at the abbot's home monastery on the Loire (fol. 12–28), along with an abacus table (fol. 1r). The resulting collection of documents contains key items for and from Abbo's technical scholarship and offers a slightly divergent counterpart to the contemporaneous Floriacensis, Berlin, Staatsbibl., Phill. 1833.
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- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: Liber de computo [Exzerpt]. (26v–27r) Found in: Standard description
- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: Liber de computo, Cap. 30–31. (27v–28r)
Incipit: De equinoctio varia nec priscorum tantum, sed etiam modernorum extat opinio
Explicit: medium ipsorum punctorum surgentis solis radio peti.
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- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: Liber de computo, Cap. 16–18. (28r–v)
Incipit: Cur luna nunc XXX, nunc XXIX pronuntiatur. Sciendum primo non uniformes computari lunae menses
Explicit: in unius tantum kalendis Augusti ab epactarum lectione dissonat.
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Silvester II, Papa (Author) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript written in the 9th, 10th and 14th centuries, probably in Einsiedeln or southwestern Germany. It contains, among other things, glosses on the Gospels, the Annales Heremi from the birth of Christ to the year 940, and various astronomical treatises, including the Sphaera by John of Sacrobosco and the Computus by Helpericus of Auxerre.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: Computus (Seite 174-239)
Incipit: Cum fratribus nostris adolescentioribus qudam calculatorię artis rudimenta
Explicit: // (239) Ruha hebr. Pneuma grece.
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- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: Computus (Seite 174-236)
Incipit: Cum fratribus nostris adolescentioribus qudam calculatorię artis rudimenta
Explicit: // (236) illadeinceps facilius assequantur.
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- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: De partibus anni (Seite 236-237)
Incipit: Annus solaris habet iiii tempora
Explicit: // (237) de xl. partes proprias xc. lx.
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- Helpericus, Altissiodorensis: De Deo (Seite 239)
Incipit: Deum intellegamus esse sine quantitate magnum
Explicit: eius obesset creaturę.
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Maǧrīṭī, Abu-'l-Qāsim Maslama Ibn-Aḥmad al- (Author) | Māšā'allāh, Ibn-Aṯarī (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Porphyrius (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description