Victorius, Aquitanus (floruit ca. 457)
The 'twin codex' of Cod. 250 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern was produced in Fulda. It remains unclear when and how this mathematical manuscript reached Bern. It seems to have left Fulda in the 10th century at the latest, as suggested by the hands of the added texts.
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- Victorius, Aquitanus: cum additamentus • Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris Found in: Standard description
- Victorius, Aquitanus: Victorius Aquitanus Calculus; (1va-6v)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio de ratione calculi. Unitas illa, unde omnis numerorum multitudo procedit
Explicit: et sic usque ad finem. Explicit praefatio. In Dei nomine incipit liber calculus, quem UictoriUs conposuit
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- Victorius, Aquitanus: Additamenta ad Calculum Victorii Aquitani (7ra-11rb) Found in: Standard description
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- Faesch, Remigius (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
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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- Victorius, Aquitanus: Liber calculi (1r) Found in: Standard description
- Victorius, Aquitanus: Liber calculi. Praefatio. (1v)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio de ratione calculi. >U
Explicit: tum a dimidia sextula per quadruplicationem usque ad IIII et sic usque ad finem. Explicit praefatio.
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- Victorius, Aquitanus: Liber calculi. Text und Anhänge. (1v–11r)
Incipit: Incipit Liber calculi quem Victorius composuit
Explicit: Tetrobolon dragmae XV, id est scripuli XLV.
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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
‘Venerable' is the term that comes to mind for describing this manuscript. In fact, it can be considered ‘venerable' due to its age since it is dated circa 825. Furthermore, the author of the main texts copied herein is Beda Venerabilis or the Venerable Bede (672/674, † 735), who was a monk at Jarrow Abbey in England. Copied in the Benedictine Abbey of Massay (France, Cher, near Bourges), the manuscript contains several of the Venerable Bede's scientific works such as the Easter cycle, also known as Bede's cycle, the De natura rerum, the De temporibus and the De temporum ratione. Various other texts were also inserted: the Annales Petaviani and the annals of the Abbey of Massay, calendar, fragments on the computus, letters.
Online Since: 06/23/2014
- Victorius, Aquitanus: Lettre de Victorius au pape Hilaire (f. 133v) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Colladon, Germain (Former possessor) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hilarius, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description