Glosses on Beda (Vienna).[1]
(Suppl. No. 2698.)
[De Temporum Ratione.]
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[UII]. Et quomodo nocte cæca1 procul accensas faces intuens, circumposita2 quaeque loca eodem lumine perfundi non dubitas3 tametsi tenebris noctis obstantibus.
sidera quidem ipsa luce radientia parent[2]4…
lunam uero aiunt, cum infimas sui circuli absidas5 plena petierit… …ipsís etiam bestiís, quae presentiam uerentur humanam, discursandi ubique, ac uictum quæritandi6 copia7 suppeteret.
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UIII. Prima7a ergo singularis illa ebdoma et á qua cæteræ formam capessunt.
Ubi notandum, quod non ideo senarius numerus est perfectus, quia Dominus in eo mundi opera perficerit, sed sicut Augustinus ait : Ideo Dominus qui simul omnia creare ualebat, in eo dignatus est operari, quia numerus est ille perfectus, ut etiam per hunc opera sua probaret esse perfecta8, qui primus sic suís partibus impletur, id est sexta, tertia et dimedia, quae sunt unum et duo et tria, et simul sex fiunt9.
sex diebus operaberis et facies opera tua, septima10 autem die sappati Domini Dei tui non facies omne opus.
1: .i. dorchai2: [marg. l.] bi(t)[3] soilsi impo issind air insin.3: cenidaciamni4: ardrigiter[4]5: fithissi abside graece circulus interpretatur6: condestis7: indsoirbi[5]7a: to . s˘ [6]ab (?) .….8: huare is haram foirbthe indaram [marg. d.] séde isairi conrotoich dia á gniniu indi9: [marg. d.] .i. ói · n[7] assessed[8] dáu a trian a trí alleth[9] ásé10: fochosmailius septimi diei mundi
1. i.e. dark.2. they will be alight around them in the air.3. though we see not.4. they appear.5. orbits.6. that they should seek.7. the abundance.8. because the number six is a perfect number, therefore God has constructed His works in it.9. i.e. one its sixth, two its third, three its half, (their aggregate) six.10. in the likeness of the seventh day of the world.
- ↑ * denotes that there are traces of an illegible gloss
- ↑ = radiantia apparent
- ↑ after i the top stroke of a letter is visible
- ↑ a relative form
- ↑ indsoirbe?; in the photograph the last letter is not clear
- ↑ The third letter looks like ᛋ
- ↑ Between i and n is what resembles 8
- ↑ Something may follow assessed: ⁊ (?)
- ↑ After this on the extreme margin is what looks like pɫ ·m̃·
