2. Glosses on Beda (Carlsruhe).
(Codex Augiensis, No. clxvii.)
f. 3c
Salua[1] ratione saltus . arisairchenn ṁbes salt hiciunn nóidécdi madindib ṅuarib deac nammá bas laigu cachmí aescai oldaas trichtaige · ised didiu slándliged salto noichtiche colleuth duárim inę́scu · Ar mad iarnaicniud[2] adrimther cutesbat dicachthrichtaigi di huáir deac ⁊ iiii brottae ⁊ unga ⁊ atom̅ niconbia salt etir · issaithrech immurgu isairi isassu lasnarímairu di huáir deac namma f. 3d duthesbuith dligud[3] slán salto ɔidécen [in marg.] salt iartain duslúnd comláinso innatesbuithe iarnaicniud aslaigu anésca oldoas trichtaige. Anísiu trá isécen remfuar bissext ⁊ emblesim[4]
De Rerum Natura.
f. 18a
[I]. De quadrifario Dei opere. ex opusculis sancti Augustini. Operatio diuina, quae saecula creauit et gubernat quadriformi ratione distinguitur. Quarto quod ex eiusdem creaturae seminibus18a1 et primordialibus causís totius saeculi tempus naturali cursu peragitur.
[II]. De mundi formatione. Sancti Iunilii. In ipso quidem principio conditionis facta sunt caelum et terra, angeli, aer
18a1: .i. asíl inrolad hisin mais nécruthaigthi statim ised asesnaise in omnia elimenta usque in finem
For it is certain that there should be a leap at the end of the nineteen-years-cycle if it is by twelve hours only that every lunar month is less than a space of thirty days. This, then, is the sound law (salua ratio) of the leap, to reckon 29½ days in the lunar month[5]. For if it be reckoned according to nature, so that to every space of thirty days may be wanting twelve hours and four moments and an ounce[6] and an atom, there will be no leap at all. This, however, is laborious. Wherefore it seems easier to the computers that the sound law of the leap (is) that only twelve hours are wanting, so that a leap is necessary afterwards to express the filling up of the natural deficiency whereby the lunar month is less than the space of thirty days. This, then, is necessary, to prepare bisext and embolism.
1. i.e. the seed that has been cast into the unshapen mass statim, this is inserted in omnia etc.
- ↑ [in marg.] donnacunus. Donnacanus seems a latinised Irish name
- ↑ MS. aiᶜniud
- ↑ leg. iarndligud, ‘that twelve hours should be wanting according to the sound law.’ J. S.
- ↑ Haec notatio, in inferiore marglne fol. 3c–d adscripta, ad libellum de ratione saltus, qui in fol. 4a, b legitur, pertinet.—Zimmer
- ↑ literally ‘moon’
- ↑ An unga (borrowed from Lat. uncia) here seems to mean an ostent, the twelfth part of a moment (infra gl. on f. 18½d) : cf. uncia, pars duodecima rei cuiuslibet (Ducange, ed. Henschel) and the quatrain cited by O’Reilly from O’Dugan s.v. unsa. The atom was the 564th part of a moment: see Ducange ed. Favre, s.v. Athomus, and the Battle of Moira, ed. O’Donovan (Dublin 1842), pp. 108, 109, 331. The Irish divisions of time were eighteen: atom, ostint (or unga), brothad, pars, minuit, pongc, úair, catar, laithe, aoil (‘biduum,’ O’Don. Suppl.), tredenus, sechtmain, nomad, coicthiges, mí, tremse (or ráithe), bliadain, des
