Following up on my earlier Tobit query, I find myself mired in 18th
century collections of medieval liturgica. Let me see if I can untangle
my ball of thread here.
A nice Tobit/Raphael reference popped up in a PL search (thanks to
Stephen Allen), similar in nature to the one I am trying to track in the
Durham manuscript (a series of prayers for chasing birds out of the
field that calls upon Archangel Panchiel and invokes the Tobit story
also).
PL 138: 1091A has, in a miscellany of unattributed benedictions, an
"oratio super segetes" (with Archangel Panchiel no less). Migne
references two things.
The first is a note saying that Panchiel is one of the angelic
beings condemned in that little heretical episode involving Adalbert c.
745, which produced a papal doctrine establishing only 3 named
archangels. Unfortunately, in my initial search through the records on
that episode, I have yet to find Panchiel in the list of condemned names
(not that I have finished searching).
The second thing Migne notes is his source for this oratio, an
eighteenth century set of volumes by Martin Gerbert, _Monumenta veteris
litrugiae alemannicae_ in two volumes (Saint-Blaise 1777-79; repr.
Hildesheim, 1967). Cyrille Vogel lists it as one of those outdated but
still useful compendiums--most of the texts have been superceded by new
editions, but not all. Unfortunately, Vogel doesn't tell me much more
about the texts I am looking at.
Nonetheless, the oratio super segetes is there in Gerbert right
where Migne said it was (volume 2, p. 92), but I am no closer to
identifying the manuscript source.
Both Migne and Gerbert identify it (with various abbreviations) as
"Ex Cod[ice] Vind[ob]. Theol. 685 saec. X." In other places in the
volume, similar titles appear, eg. "Ex Cod. Th. Bibl. Vind. n. 685
saec. X," "Ex cod. Vindob. saec. IX" and "ex cod. Msc. bibl. Vind. saec
X" and the like, some of which appear to be the same ms and some are
clearly other mss in the same library (?). I want the 10th century ms
Theol. 685, but I can't quite figure out where Vindob. is, at least in
an 18th century Latinist's mind. I don't know if this oratio is also in
Mabillon, Muratori, or Martene (although I have Mabillon on order
through InterLibrary Loan). It is possible that Vindob. refers to
something inside Gerbert's monastery of Saint Blaise, if I am reading
the 18th cen. Latin preface correctly.
Before I pester InterLibrary Loan with more arcane requests, does
anyone know what this ms reference is? or know what Vindob. is, or have
a Latin place name list handy?
Has anyone ever dealt with the Martin Gerbert volumes and can
explain what it is I have here?
Last, if Vindob. is some obvious thing that I should have known,
feel free to tell me!
Many thanks,
Karen Jolly
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Dr. Karen Jolly
Associate Professor, History
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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